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QuEra Computing

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$175,000–$210,000Boston, MASenior

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About the job

Senior founding engineer for QuEra’s new AI Engineering team, responsible for turning company-wide opportunities into deployable LLM- and agent-powered tools used across machine build, hardware, operations, and everyday engineering.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Build and operate internal AI tools from idea through production
  • Design LLM and agentic systems with retrieval, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and guardrails
  • Set reusable technical patterns and shared infrastructure for the AI Engineering team
  • Partner with engineering, hardware, and operations teams to deliver adopted tools

What you’ll bring

  • Deep production software-engineering experience, primarily in Python, with strong testing, CI/CD, code review, and documentation practices
  • Hands-on experience building LLM applications using agent design, tool/function calling, MCP integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and evaluation
  • Experience designing or integrating agents that safely act on real systems
  • Ability to architect and deliver backend services, APIs, light front-end, and deployment end to end

Technologies

Python · LLM · MCP · retrieval-augmented generation · Kubernetes · Docker · React · TypeScript · PyTorch · vector databases

About QuEra Computing

Builds neutral-atom quantum computers using laser-trapped rubidium atoms, sold as cloud access (AWS Braket) and on-premises systems to enterprises, labs, and governments.

Private Late · 100–200 people

Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$175,000–$210,000
Pay details

The approximate base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $210,000.

Location
Boston, MA

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Internal deployment & tooling

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $193,000, close to the $198,000 median for the 1,730 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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