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Rigetti Computing

Senior Software Engineering Manager

AI summary of the role

Lead the internal software engineering team building platforms for design, fabrication, characterization, and measurement of Rigetti's quantum computers.

What you’ll do

  • Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team spanning scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication-support systems.
  • Drive technical execution across scientific computing, fabrication tooling, analytics systems, and workflow automation.
  • Oversee development of data platforms and modeling tools combining design files, fabrication process data, and device performance metrics.
  • Partner with quantum hardware, chip design, and fabrication teams to understand operational pain points and evolving workflow requirements.

What you’ll bring

  • 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.

Technologies

Python · JavaScript · TypeScript · AWS · Kafka · Kinesis · Spark Streaming · NumPy · SciPy · PyTorch · KLayout · Cadence

About Rigetti Computing

Designs, manufactures, and operates superconducting quantum computers, selling access via its Quantum Cloud Services platform to enterprise, government, and research customers.

Public · 200–500 people

Source and classification

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About Us At Rigetti, our mission is to build the world’s most powerful computers to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Rigetti is a pioneer in superconducting Qubits and full stack quantum computing systems. In addition to introducing the first multi-chip quantum processor, Rigetti has led the way in software systems for quantum computing, with a distributed operating environment for hybrid quantum-classical computing, and a state-of-the-art streaming characterization and measurement development and execution platform We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to head the team responsible for software systems that enable the creation, delivery and maintenance of Rigetti’s quantum computers. This includes systems for device design, chip fabrication workflows, physics-informed data analysis, quantum gate-design, and quantum mitigation and error correction
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