qubitsok.com
Cut Noise. Work Quantum.
United States
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Posted 138 days ago
🏢 QuEra
Role Type
Role Focus
Seniority
Employer Type
This role involves leading the planning, integration, and maintenance of software build processes for quantum computers. The engineer will use expertise in Software Engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD workflows to deliver complex control hardware and software, ensuring reliable and scalable quantum operations. They will collaborate with software and hardware engineers to build systems for QuEra ’s quantum computers.
Key Responsibilities
Implement, test, and maintain software build and installation systems to produce software artifacts for QuEra ’s quantum computers.
Evaluate and recommend hardware platforms to expand the software build environments.
Aid in designing a scalable architecture that supports modular expansion, system health monitoring, build artifact storage, and distribution.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align system-level decisions with calibration workflows, compilers, and experimental software.
Required Skills
Bachelor's or master's degree in software engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer science, or a related field.
5+ years of experience with software engineering build and release processes, including complex branching strategies and CI/CD workflows using source control systems.
Experience implementing configuration management, diagnostics, and system monitoring for CI/CD systems.
Experience implementing, expanding, and maintaining release engineering frameworks like Jenkins, Tekton, Github Actions, or GitLab CI.
Experience implementing Docker, Kubernetes, KVM, Talos, NixOS, or Openstack environments.
Experience with artifact repository management.
Administrative level proficiency with Linux OS.
Nice-to-have Skills
Experience with ticketing system integration, such as Github Actions and Jira.
Experience with pip, npm, composer, or other packaging systems.
Demonstrated expertise with multiple programming and scripting languages including Python, C, C++, and bash.
Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Nix, or Chef for repeatable build environment spin-ups.
Technology Tags
The job description explicitly states the company works on 'neutral atom quantum computers,' defining the core hardware technology context for this role.
The role involves designing and maintaining scalable architectures for software builds and distribution, which is a core IT infrastructure function.
The role requires proficiency in common programming and scripting languages like Python, C, C++, and bash for developing and maintaining build systems.
The engineer is responsible for building and maintaining software systems that facilitate the control of QuEra's quantum computing hardware.
The role involves collaboration on calibration workflows and experimental software, implying interaction with the underlying control algorithms for quantum operations.
The job description explicitly mentions collaboration with 'compilers' as part of the software ecosystem for quantum operations.
The role requires experience with containerization and virtualization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, which are essential for cloud-native development and deployment.