Scientific Software Engineer - Shuttle Compilation

Summary

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 emerging direction involves novel challenges in both engineering and science.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain compiler components and APIs for atom shuttling / movement-aware compilation, contributing directly to Bloqade Shuttle and Bloqade Lanes.
• Implement and improve optimization methods relevant to shuttling workflows (e.g., routing/scheduling/planning heuristics, constraint-aware transformations, and cost-model-driven compilation decisions).
• Collaborate with scientists and hardware/control teams to translate experimental constraints into robust compiler abstractions and execution-ready instruction streams (including shuttling and related low-level features).
• Provide customer and collaborator support in Japan, including issue triage, reproducing bugs, delivering fixes, and supporting integration/operations for the ABCIQ / AIST deployment.
• Uphold strong engineering practices in public repos: code review, CI/testing, release hygiene, and thoughtful API evolution.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python (type hints, testing, packaging, tooling), and comfort working across a scientific codebase.
• Experience with at least one of: optimization, graph algorithms, routing/scheduling, path planning, or related algorithmic areas.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines (software, AMO/experimental physics, hardware/control, applications).
• Fluent in Japanese and English for technical communication with customers and the global team.
• Demonstrable experience contributing to open-source projects on GitHub (PRs, reviews, issue-driven development).

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in AMO physics and/or neutral-atom quantum computing concepts relevant to shuttling and gate-model execution.
• Experience with compiler infrastructure (IR design, SSA-based approaches, LLVM/MLIR-style concepts) or DSL/eDSL development.
• Experience with Rust in addition to Python.
• Familiarity with quantum error correction workflows and hardware/software co-design in hybrid quantum-classical settings.