Senior Quantum Lab Software Engineer

Quantinuum; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 132,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Equity

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Flexible schedule

Employee discounts

Job summary

Quantinuum in Colorado seeks a Sr. Advanced Software Engineer to design and support software interfacing with lab hardware powering quantum systems.

You’ll build robust tools and pipelines that improve throughput and enable physicists and engineers to work more efficiently in a fast-paced R&D environment. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in lab or research software, 2+ years in Python or C++, and experience with hardware interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 4+ years of graduate and/or industry software experience in lab/research environments.
• Minimum 2+ years of Python, C++, or similar OO language.
• Minimum 1+ year building software that interfaces with physical hardware via device interfaces or instrumentation libraries.
• U.S. Person per contractual requirements; citizens, permanent residents, or green card holders only. Nationals of PRC or Russia excluded unless US citizen.
• Safety-sensitive role requiring pre-employment drug test.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain software that automates lab processes and interfaces with instruments and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with physicists and hardware engineers to align lab workflows with software tools.
• Develop internal tools and dashboards to visualize equipment status and system health in real time.
• Improve observability and error reporting to speed debugging and reduce downtime.
• Contribute to CI/CD workflows and automated testing; support software lifecycle.
• Help define development best practices and code-review processes.
• Travel up to 10% as needed.

Skills

Python

C++

Laboratory software

OO programming

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Job description

Quantinuum in Colorado seeks a Sr. Advanced Software Engineer to design and support software interfacing with lab hardware powering quantum systems.

You’ll build robust tools and pipelines that improve throughput and enable physicists and engineers to work more efficiently in a fast-paced R&D environment. Ideal candidates have 4+ years in lab or research software, 2+ years in Python or C++, and experience with hardware interfaces.