Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. We believe this technology will fundamentally change the world for the better and will affect nearly every industry over the coming decades.
Day to day in this role
You’ll develop and maintain the services and client SDKs used to build and execute programs on Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services (QCS). This includes services used by internal researchers and public customers alike, for whom stability and reliability is essential
Services are written in Rust, Golang, and a combination of the two (over FFI), with tools in Python and Typescript. Clients are offered in Python, Rust, C, and Golang. Our web apps are written in Typescript & React
You’ll extend and refine OpenAPI & gRPC APIs in ways that offer deeper or more efficient access to the quantum processor.
These services have been in production since 2018, but many opportunities remain for optimization and new product features
You’ll assume pager duty to ensure that QCS remains operational around the clock. Operational issues today requiring after-hours responses are rare
You will hold significant sway over the future architecture of our services and client SDKs
You'll work closely with several teams within Rigetti
Our embedded software engineering team, which develops the cutting-edge hardware driving the quantum processor. QCS services interact directly with that hardware, and it is critical that they mesh together tightly
Quantum engineers and applications developers, who rely on this service to do their research and offer exciting, novel ideas to refine and optimize it
Our infrastructure team, in order to ensure that the service remains performant and highly available
Your immediate team members who own other parts of the overall system, including compiler and language development
You’ll also be encouraged to present your work externally at conferences and in publications
About You
You relish a sense of ownership and agency over your work, and you learn quickly
You prize the quality of the software that you write.
You approach your work with a sense of urgency appropriate to the impact either on users or on the team itself
You communicate clearly and effectively
You have experience building mission-critical, reliable, and performant systems
You rigorously test and document software intended for production use, follow common language conventions and well-known patterns, and rely heavily on automation for testing and deployment
You are experienced in profiling, benchmarking, and tracing code in both the development and deployment environments
You know how to design an API to avoid breaking changes, and how to migrate clients when it can’t be avoided
You are knowledgeable about non-trivial parts of service design, such as distributed authorization, error handling, and versioning
You work independently - you’re comfortable leading the design and implementation of a software package or service from high-level requirements
You enjoy leading a high-level architecture discussion one moment, and then translating that discussion into reliable production code the next
You are functional and agile in environments with incomplete information and evolving priorities and requirements, and you actively shape the requirements and product rather than awaiting guidance.
Key Requirements
Discipline and rigor in your code, design, and communication
Fluency in Rust. Competence in Golang and Python
Deep experience building and maintaining schema-driven, widely accessible web APIs (one or more of OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC/Protobuf)
One or more of the following:
Experience developing and supporting popular open-source software libraries to include issue triage and community messaging
Experience with event streaming systems (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis)
Nice to Have
Experience in programming language and/or compiler development
Experience building intuitive, elegant web applications with React
Experience building and maintaining SDKs
Experience architecting, building, and deploying microservice architectures with Kubernetes
Academic background in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Physics
Knowledge of quantum computing and applications.
As engineering leaders, we value diversity and are committed to building a culture of inclusion to attract and engage innovative thinkers. 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. The company has operated quantum computers over the cloud since 2017 and serves global enterprise, government, and research clients through its Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services platform. The company’s proprietary quantum-classical infrastructure provides ultra-low latency integration with public and private clouds for high-performance practical quantum computing. Rigetti has developed the industry’s first multi-chip quantum processor for scalable quantum computing systems. The company designs and manufactures its chips in-house at Fab-1, the industry’s first dedicated and integrated quantum device manufacturing facility. Rigetti was founded in 2013 and today employs more than 150 people with offices in the United States, U.K., and Australia. Learn more at www.rigetti.com.
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