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Senior Research Software Engineer

Kidlington, Oxfordshire💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Architect and develop software across the full quantum control stack to enable high-performance operation of quantum computers and sensors.

Role type

Senior Research Software Engineer (quantum control systems)

Builds

Real-time control systems, waveform generation, calibration automation, experiment orchestration, and scalable data pipelines for quantum hardware.

Domain

Quantum computing and quantum sensing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Systems programming, hardware-adjacent or real-time systems development, scientific computing, high-performance computing, backend service architecture, code review leadership, mentoring, debugging embedded kernels and cloud services.

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

None explicitly listed

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deploy reliable, maintainable, scalable, and fault-tolerant backend services and frameworks that control and calibrate quantum hardware; Support and debug all layers of the control stack from real-time embedded kernels to distributed and cloud-based services.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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