Rigetti Computing

Rigetti Computing

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Berkeley, CA or Fremont, CA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$220k-$250kDetected 39 days ago
JavaScriptPythonGoRustFull-Stack DevelopmentAWSKafkaMachine LearningPyTorchNumPySparkData AnalysisStakeholder ManagementPerformance ManagementElectrical EngineeringHardware DesignControlsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • The ideal candidate is passionate about accelerating our hardware development flywheel and can empower technical teams in complex scientific environments while creating structure, accountability, prioritization, and long-term sustainability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team spanning scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication-support systems.
  • Create stronger operational rigor around prioritization, execution, accountability, and project delivery.
  • Provide coaching, growth support, feedback, and career development for engineers across varying levels of seniority.
  • Serve as a day-to-day thought partner to the VP of Software Engineering while helping create additional leadership bandwidth across the organization.
  • Partner closely with engineers to drive execution across scientific computing, fabrication tooling, analytics systems, and workflow automation.
  • Support development of internal tooling and data systems that connect design, fabrication, and device performance workflows.
  • Drive better long-term ownership, maintainability, and lifecycle planning for internally developed systems and infrastructure.
  • Support technical decision-making, architecture discussions, and engineering prioritization while remaining hands-on enough to engage credibly with the team.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience with software systems managing large datasets, metadata, and scalable data pipelines.
  • Experience with streaming architectures and tools (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Spark Streaming).
  • Proficiency in Python
  • familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • Comfort in a scientific computing environment is strongly valued.
  • Proficiency with AWS for development and production deployment and distributed computing.
  • ability to represent the team's capacity and push back constructively on internal customer requests.
  • BS or equivalent degree in Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, or related field
  • MS or PhD a plus.
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a people leadership role, whether formal management or equivalent tech lead capacity
  • Demonstrated experience building data systems, ideally in scientific computing or physics-informed models.
  • familiarity with JavaScript or TypeScript. Comfort in a scientific computing environment is strongly valued.
  • People leadership ability, including coaching, performance management, and building team culture, whether formal management experience or demonstrated informal leadership.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Hands-on technical ability
  • should be capable of making code contributions on an as-needed basis, even if day-to-day focus is leadership.

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of quantum device physics, such as superconducting qubits, trapped ions, photonics, or quantum information science.
  • Knowledge of quantum control systems and low-level hardware/software interfaces, including cryogenic hardware, RF electronics, and qubit calibration.
  • Familiarity with fabrication processes in semiconductor, quantum, or other hardware/lab-based environments.
  • Experience with scientific computing platforms, simulation tools, and scientific computing libraries/tools such as NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, etc.
  • Experience with compiled languages such as Go or Rust.
  • Our technology, meant to serve all of humanity, cannot succeed if those who built it do not mirror the diversity of the communities we serve.
  • Applications from women, minorities, and other under-represented groups are encouraged.
  • About Rigetti Rigetti Computing is a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing.

Compensation

  • $220k-$250k

Company info

  • 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.
  • This includes systems for device design, chip fabrication workflows, physics-informed data analysis, quantum gate-design, and quantum mitigation and error correction technologies.
  • This also includes managing the team and supporting the development of software systems for quantum QPU and system characterization.
  • 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 is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of state-of-the-art software engineering, hardware, and scientific computing.
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