Scientific Software Engineer - Hardware Compilation
QuEra Computing
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<p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">QuEra Computing, Inc. seeks a creative and collaborative Scientific Software Engineer to help solve the unique software challenges of integrating high-level applications into state-of-the-art neutral-atom quantum computers. You will have the opportunity to work with a vibrant scientific software team and a community of industry and academic collaborators and to help our growing team of diverse experts address fascinating challenges, ranging from classical compiler techniques to direct integration with low-level hardware components. Using our open-source toolchain, Kirin, you will be building QuEra’s compiler pipeline together with experimental & computational physicists from low-level hardware instructions to high-level programming languages. This involves the development of new features and infrastructure for hardware execution. You will be co-designing compilers and hardware infrastructure for the next generation of quantum computing using cutting-edge neutral-atom and quantum error correction technologies. This new direction involves multiple new challenges in both engineering and science.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">This Japan-based role also includes </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">maintenance and updates of the internal execution software pipeline</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> for the </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Gemini class</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> machine deployed at </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">AIST</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> (ABCIQ). The primary audience for these tools and workflows is </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">internal researchers and experimentalists</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">, and the work is closely connected to hardware/control electronics and lab execution needs.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Develop and maintain domain-specific language (DSL) for pulse-level programs and its associated compilation stack </li> <li>Support integration of pulse compilation into multiple quantum computer builds </li> <li>Collaborate with Quantum Error Correction (QEC) scientists and hardware control team to plan and develop hardware features required for executing QEC algorithms </li> <li>Collaborate with other members of the scientific software team to integrate gate-level and atom-move compilation </li> <li>Maintain and update the internal execution software pipeline for the Gemini class machine deployed in AIST (ABCIQ), ensuring compatibility with evolving hardware/control capabilities and internal research workflows </li> </ul> <p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Masters in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience </li> <li>Enthusiastic about building tools used by non-software developers </li> <li>Experience with Python semantics, Python type hints, CPython interpreter </li> <li>Experience with modern C++ projects and tooling around those projects </li> <li>Experience with Static Single Assignment intermediate representations-based compiler </li> <li>Knowledge of the full lifecycle of software development, including version control, code review, testing, CI/CD, logging, profiling, debugging, and documentation </li> <li>Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English (spoken and written) for technical collaboration with Japan-based stakeholders and QuEra’s global teams </li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ph.D. in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience </li> <li>Experience with FPGA programming </li> <li>knowledge in quantum physics and AMO physics </li> <li>Experience in programming language design, especially programming language theory </li> <li>knowledge in quantum error correction </li> <li>Contribution to existing open-source libraries </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">科学ソフトウェアエンジニア</span></strong><strong><span data-contrast="auto"> - </span></strong><strong><span data-contrast="auto">ハードウェアコンパイル(日本)</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">職務内容</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">QuEra Computing, Inc.</span><span data-contrast="auto">では、最先端の中性原子量子コンピュータへの高レベルアプリケーションの統合という独自のソフトウェア課題の解決を支援する、創造性と協調性を兼ね備えた科学ソフトウェアエンジニアを募集しています。活気ある科学ソフトウェアチームや産学の協力者コミュニティと共に働き、古典的なコンパイラ技術から低レベルハードウェアコンポーネントとの直接統合に至るまで、多様な専門家からなる成長中のチームが取り組む魅力的な課題の解決に貢献する機会を得られます。当社のオープンソースツールチェーン「<