Senior Quantum Engineer - Build & Run a Fault-Tolerant QPU

QuEra Computing, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

QuEra Computing, Inc. is seeking a Senior Quantum Engineer to join the Boston-based team. You will help integrate hardware and software for a commercially oriented quantum service, interfacing with internal and external engineering groups to deliver a scalable QPU foundation.

The role emphasizes ownership from machine builds to product delivery, with collaboration across software, product, and solutions teams to translate user needs into a concrete roadmap and value for customers.

Qualifications

• A Ph.D. in experimental AMO physics or a related field, with 6+ years of hands-on experience building or operating a neutral-atom or trapped-ion system.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a real interest in working across multidisciplinary teams — integrating their work into a system and rallying the support it needs.
• Strong interest in working with customers and end users to understand their needs and translate them into features, ultimately delivering value for the market.
• Software skills, including programming languages and a basic understanding of software architectures.
• Familiarity with quantum error correction and fault-tolerant architectures is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern AI workflows for automation is a plus.
• Success in research, evidenced by peer-reviewed publications and/or scientific talks and other contributions.
• A willingness to provide on-call support for machine and service operations.
• Excitement to work at the scientific, technological and commercial frontier of quantum computing, and the drive to grow into increasing ownership of a flagship system.

Responsibilities

• Integrate and test new hardware and software features and subsystems, driven by technological developments, customer needs and market opportunities.
• Take growing responsibility for overall operations — optimizing for performance, reliability, uptime and running cost.
• Build and enable a team of operators so that the machine can serve as the dependable backbone of a commercial service.
• Support users and customers, and translate their needs into the machine’s roadmap.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Customer focus

Software skills

AI workflows

Quantum error correction

System integration

On-call support

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Ph.D. in experimental AMO physics or related field

Job description

QuEra Computing, Inc. is seeking a Senior Quantum Engineer to join the Boston-based team. You will help integrate hardware and software for a commercially oriented quantum service, interfacing with internal and external engineering groups to deliver a scalable QPU foundation.

The role emphasizes ownership from machine builds to product delivery, with collaboration across software, product, and solutions teams to translate user needs into a concrete roadmap and value for customers.