Scientific Software Engineer - AMO Simulations

Responsibilities

• Develop scientific software for simulating neutral-atom quantum systems, including coherent dynamics, dissipation, noise, and measurement
• Implement numerical methods for quantum dynamics and open quantum systems, such as Lindblad master equations and quantum trajectories
• Build production-grade tools to model Rydberg interactions, atom motion, laser control imperfections, and decoherence
• Collaborate with physicists and software engineers to translate theoretical models into tested, documented, reusable components
• Design simulation workflows for benchmarking, calibration analysis, algorithm validation, and performance modeling
• Optimize numerical codes for accuracy, stability, and performance across system sizes
• Contribute to APIs, documentation, examples, and validation tests
• Contribute to QuEra's virtualization platform to emulate hardware with AMO-informed noise

Requirements

• Master's or Ph.D. in Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Strong background in quantum mechanics, AMO physics, quantum optics, or quantum information science
• Experience performing numerical simulations of open quantum systems or many-body quantum dynamics
• Strong programming skills in Python, Julia, C++, Rust, or similar scientific computing languages
• Experience with numerical linear algebra, differential equation solvers, Monte Carlo methods, or high-performance simulation techniques
• Familiarity with version control, testing, code review, profiling, debugging, and documentation
• Ability to communicate clearly across theory, software, and experimental teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience modeling neutral atoms, Rydberg systems, trapped ions, superconducting qubits, or photonic systems
• Familiarity with QuantumOptics.jl, QuTiP, SciPy, NumPy, ITensor, CUDA, MPI, or related tools
• Experience with tensor networks, quantum trajectories, stochastic master equations, optimal control, or noise spectroscopy
• Knowledge of quantum algorithms, analog quantum simulation, quantum error correction, or benchmarking
• Experience developing reusable scientific software packages or contributing to open-source projects
• Comfort working with imperfect, evolving physical models and validating them against data

About the Company

QuEra Computing Inc. builds neutral-atom quantum processors and develops software tools for modeling quantum systems, connecting device-level physics to higher-level quantum computing workflows.