Senior Counsel, Commercial & Government Contracts

Full-time2026-10-02 → 2026-11-11

Core

Lead commercial and government contracting strategy, design templates and processes, and negotiate high-stakes deals for quantum computing hardware, software, and research collaborations.

Role type

Senior in-house counsel (commercial & government contracts)

Builds

Commercial and government contracting function, including templates, processes, and negotiating positions

Domain

Quantum computing / High-tech hardware & software

Required skills

Federal government contract negotiation, FAR/DFARS compliance, commercial agreement structuring, contract template design, process building, executive advisory

Preferred skills

Experience building contracting functions from scratch, quantum technology domain knowledge

Technologies

FAR, DFARS

Responsibilities

Negotiate complex commercial and government contracts, design and scale contracting templates and processes, advise executive leadership on deal structure and compliance, lead research collaboration agreements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About rigetti computing

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. 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 respo