Skip to content
NEXTMOVEFDE careers · United States
Rigetti

Senior Software Engineering Manager

AI summary of the role

Lead the internal software engineering team that builds platforms for designing, fabricating, characterizing, and measuring Rigetti's superconducting 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 execution across scientific computing, fabrication tooling, analytics systems, and workflow automation.
  • Modernize and operationalize internal tooling and data systems connecting design, fabrication, and device performance.
  • Collaborate with quantum hardware, chip design, fabrication, and algorithm research teams to address operational pain points.

What you’ll bring

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a people leadership role (formal or tech lead).
  • Proficiency in Python; familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Experience with streaming architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming).
  • Proficiency with AWS for development and production deployment.

Technologies

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

About Rigetti

Builds superconducting quantum computers, QPUs, and cloud access for research, government, and enterprise teams using chiplet architecture and in-house Fab-1 manufacturing.

Public · 100–200 people

Source and classification

Deployment team leadership · Evidence for this classification:

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
How jobs are selected

Employer postings · Data from · Sources