Senior Quantum Software Engineering Manager

Rigetti Computing, Inc.; Berkeley, Fremont (CA, CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Rigetti Computing, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for software platforms enabling design, fabrication, characterization, and measurement of Rigetti's quantum systems.

You will manage engineers across scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication‑support systems, partnering with quantum hardware and control teams. The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, architectural input, and scalable platform development to accelerate

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a people leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience building data systems, ideally in scientific computing or physics‑informed models.
• Experience with streaming architectures and tools (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming).
• Proficiency in Python; familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript. Comfort in a scientific computing environment is strongly valued.
• Proficiency with AWS for development and production deployment and distributed computing.
• People leadership ability, including coaching, performance management, and building team culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a cross‑functional software engineering team spanning scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication‑support systems.
• Create stronger operational rigor around prioritization, execution, accountability, and project delivery.
• Provide coaching, growth support, feedback, and career development for engineers across varying levels of seniority.
• Help establish healthy engineering culture, team norms, and stronger collaboration practices.
• Serve as a day‑to‑day thought partner to the VP of Software Engineering while helping create additional leadership bandwidth across the organization.
• Participate in hiring and team scaling efforts as the organization grows.
• Partner closely with engineers to drive execution across scientific computing, fabrication tooling, analytics systems, and workflow automation.
• Support development of internal tooling and data systems that connect design, fabrication, and device performance workflows.
• Help modernize and operationalize internal tooling that has historically evolved organically through research and prototyping efforts.
• Drive better long‑term ownership, maintainability, and lifecycle planning for internally developed systems and infrastructure.

Skills

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Hands-on coding

Python

AWS

Data systems

Distributed computing

Communication

Education

BS in Software Engineering

Tools

Python

AWS

Kafka

Spark

Kubernetes

Job description

Rigetti Computing, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for software platforms enabling design, fabrication, characterization, and measurement of Rigetti's quantum systems.

You will manage engineers across scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication‑support systems, partnering with quantum hardware and control teams. The role emphasizes hands‑on leadership, architectural input, and scalable platform development to accelerate