Atom Computing
Principal Software Engineer
Boulder, CO · Principal
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About the role
- Join a talented team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing.
- This is a primarily backend role with occasional frontend work.
- Our backend services are written in Python and Rust, and our frontend components are written in TypeScript/React.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for a core area of our software platform, guiding the design and execution of its projects and setting the technical direction that aligns your area with the broader team roadmap.
- Drive architectural decisions across the software stack that orchestrates quantum computing on our systems, interfacing with (but not controlling) the hardware control and calibration systems owned by our partner team, and managing the experimental data our systems produce.
- Rewrite and productionize prototype code written by our Quantum Engineers, turning research code into reliable, well-tested, maintainable services, and establishing the patterns the team builds on.
- Mentor engineers across the team, raising the bar on code quality, design, documentation, and engineering practice.
- Partner with our infrastructure team to strengthen our CI/CD pipelines, contributing improvements that speed up and stabilize how we ship.
- Represent Atom Computing's engineering work externally where relevant, in customer and partner engagements and in the broader technical community.
- Experience developing and operating software in Linux environments.
- Experience building TypeScript/React frontend components.
Requirements
- A passion for writing software and a proven track record of designing and implementing architecture-level features in complex systems.
- Proficiency with Python and SQL.
- Familiarity with Git, automated testing, and modern software development practices.
- Experience with a compiled language such as C++ or Rust.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. Azure, AWS, or GCP) and Terraform.
- Experience with containerization technologies.
- Experience working at both a large technology company and a startup.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced degrees (Master's or PhD) are welcome but not required.
Nice to have
- We also offer drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches in our offices, every day!
Compensation
- The base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $220,000, commensurate with experience.
Company info
- We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the software platform that orchestrates our quantum computers.
- Deploy, monitor, and support our production platform, sharing in a team on-call rotation to keep our quantum computers reliably available to customers.
- At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs.
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