Senior Quantum Engineer

Summary  

QuEra is building its next-generation quantum computer in Boston: the first fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer at a scale where commercially useful applications become possible. This is the scientific, technological and commercial frontier — and this Senior Quantum Engineer role sits at the center of it.

You will join the Quantum Computing Services team early in this new machine’s life, learn QuEra’s technology platform and the specific system from the ground up, and take on increasing ownership of the QPU, driving it towards a product. You will ultimately be involved in launching the product, and in the continued operation of an internally-facing and externally-facing (commercial) quantum computing service with the system at its core.

Your mandate in the first phase of the machine’s lifecycle is system integration: working on QuEra’s machine build task force and interfacing with internal and external engineering teams to corral and integrate the subsystems they deliver.

In the second phase of the machine’s lifecycle, your mandate is delivering, then sustaining, a product and service: helping build an operations team and ensuring the successful delivery of value to customers. You will be working closely with software teams to build out and integrate the software stack that enables programmability of the quantum computer, with product and commercial teams to define the product and service, and with applications and solutions teams to collaborate with go-to-market partners.

Across these phases you will be expected to:

• Integrate and test new hardware and software features and subsystems, driven by technological developments, customer needs and market opportunities.


• Take growing responsibility for overall operations — optimizing for performance, reliability, uptime and running cost.


• Build and enable a team of operators so that the machine can serve as the dependable backbone of a commercial service.


• Support users and customers, and translate their needs into the machine’s roadmap.