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OQC is building commercial quantum computing systems, and this role sits at the intersection of experimental physics, automation, and production engineering. As a Quantum Software Engineer in Calibration Operations, you will develop automated calibration and benchmarking solutions that keep OQC's quantum computers accurate, stable, and available. Quantum systems naturally drift and are highly sensitive to their environment, so effective calibration is a continuous operational requirement.
You will own quantum-software projects from requirements and experimental validation through to production deployment. Your responsibilities include:
- Design and develop automated calibration and benchmarking sequences and workflows for production and R&D quantum systems, supporting system bring-up, daily calibration, performance monitoring and remediation.
- Build calibration software that is reliable, fast, observable and capable of recovering from failures, improving workflow orchestration, status reporting, results management and alerting.
- Use calibration data, fidelity metrics and other figures of merit to assess system health, inform automated decisions and develop procedures that improve calibration stability, speed and quality.
- Partner with Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering and other software teams to automate deployment, security, quality assurance and observability.
- Diagnose issues across quantum hardware, measurement software, calibration workflows and production services, supporting users of the tooling and improving systems following operational incidents.
- Deliver calibration capabilities for current and future quantum devices, helping shape the calibration technical roadmap.
- Contribute to research into calibration agents, machine-learning optimisation, reinforcement learning and low-level calibration.
You will work closely with measurement and calibration teams, control-systems engineers, researchers and platform teams. You'll contribute through design reviews, pair programming and shared problem-solving, and share knowledge through documentation, technical presentations and contributions to the wider quantum community.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong understanding of quantum computing, particularly calibration, characterisation and benchmarking, alongside knowledge of experimental measurement, parameter optimisation and system performance metrics.
- Experience automating calibration or experimental procedures for quantum systems.
- Strong Python programming skills and familiarity with modern software-engineering practices, including object-oriented design, unit and integration testing, and version control.
- Experience developing reliable scientific or production software from concept through to deployment.
- Ability to analyse calibration data and use it to improve procedures or inform workflow decisions.
- Strong debugging skills across software, data and experimental systems, with a calm, methodical approach to resolving time-sensitive issues.
- Experience working across scientific, engineering and operational disciplines, translating requirements into effective solutions.
- Collaborative approach to sharing knowledge, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and supporting colleagues.
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Degree-level knowledge in physics, computer science, engineering or another relevant numerical discipline.
NICE-TO-HAVES:
- Experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, message brokers, data streaming or observability platforms.
- Knowledge of FPGA-based or other low-level calibration techniques.
- Experience developing user-facing scientific or calibration tools.
- Contributions to quantum research, publications, open-source projects or conference presentations.
- Postgraduate qualification (MSc or PhD) in quantum technology, physics, computer science or a related discipline.
