# Scientific Software Engineer - Compiler at QuEra Computing

> Japan · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aqueracomputinginc%3A4763691008 (read 2026-11-04).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [QuEra Computing](https://alderhq.app/companies/quera-computing)
- Location text: Tsukuba, Japan; Tsukuba, Japan
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Japan (evidence: "Location: Tsukuba, Japan; Tsukuba, Japan")
- Posted: 2025-06-13 (508 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-03
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/queracomputinginc/jobs/4763691008
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, C++

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 3, median offered wage $155k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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 multiple new challenges in both engineering and science.

### Responsibilities

- Develop and maintain domain-specific languages (DSLs) involved in the compilation pipeline
- Support customers when usage questions and technical issues arise
- Support integration of our compiler pipeline at our location in Japan together with other team members
- Collaborate with scientists and our hardware control team to plan and develop hardware features required for executing QEC algorithms
- Collaborate with other members of the scientific software team to deliver new language and hardware features including new gates, atom shuttling instructions, and low-level pulse control features
### Qualifications

- Masters in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience
- Enthusiastic about building tools used by non-software developers
- Fluent in Japanese and English for technical conversation between team and customers
- Experience with Python semantics, Python type hints, and the CPython interpreter
- Experience with modern C++ projects and tooling around those projects
- Experience with Static Single Assignment intermediate representations-based compiler
- Knowledge of the full lifecycle of software development, including version control, code review, testing, CI/CD, logging, profiling, debugging, and documentation
### Preferred Qualifications

- Ph.D. in Computer Science with focus on quantum computation/architecture/programming language/compiler, or equivalent professional experience
- knowledge in quantum physics and AMO physics
- Experience in programming language and compiler design
- knowledge in quantum error correction
- Contribution to existing open-source libraries

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