R&D Manager, Quantinuum
Software
+ Equity
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3+ days a week in office
Quantum computing company
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Quantum computing company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate quantum computing and use its power to positively transform the world.
Role
Who you are
- Prior quantum-computing experience is valued but not required; demonstrated leadership and strong, relevant software-engineering experience are essential
- A bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Minimum five years of combined relevant experience in software engineering, compiler or programming-language development, or closely related technical R&D. Relevant postgraduate research, including master's and PhD study, may count towards this total
- Demonstrated leadership of technical projects or teams, including shaping technical direction, mentoring engineers and coordinating delivery
- Experience making and communicating architectural decisions for production software, with attention to testing, documentation and long-term maintainability
- Strong planning and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical disciplines
Desirable
- Experience developing quantum software, particularly quantum programming languages, compilers, intermediate representations, runtime systems or execution tooling
- An understanding of quantum programming models, hardware-software co-design and the interaction between classical and quantum computation
- Direct experience designing or implementing programming languages, type systems, compiler passes or intermediate representations
- Experience developing production-quality software in Rust or Python
- Previous experience as a line manager or team lead, including coaching, recruiting, onboarding and supporting engineers' career development
- Experience leading or collaborating with geographically distributed technical teams
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source software and working with developer communities
- A track record of maturing research ideas and prototypes into software used by customers or other engineering teams
What the job involves
- We are seeking an R&D Manager - Software to lead the team developing Quantinuum's programming-language and compiler tools, including Guppy, HUGR and TKET
- These tools form a core part of our quantum software stack, enabling developers and internal teams to translate high-level quantum programs into robust, executable systems
- This role combines technical leadership and people management in roughly equal parts
- Working with software leadership and senior engineers, you will define and execute the technical roadmap, guide architectural decisions, and ensure that our language and compiler ecosystem is scalable, maintainable and ready for production use
- You will remain technically engaged through design, code review, problem-solving and implementation
- Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of software engineers, setting clear expectations and supporting career development at every level
- Define and deliver the team's roadmap jointly with software leadership and senior individual contributors, allocating capacity, tracking progress, and managing priorities, risks, dependencies and cross-team handoffs
- Provide technical leadership across the language, compiler and developer-tooling stack
- Guide software through the full development lifecycle, from research and prototyping to tested, documented and production-ready releases
- Partner with research, applications, product, hardware and other software teams in the UK and US to align interfaces and ensure the software stack supports Quantinuum's quantum processors and priority use cases, with occasional travel to Quantinuum's US sites
- Recruit, onboard and retain excellent engineers, and continuously improve the team's engineering and delivery practices
Our take
The processing power of quantum computing (QC) promises to yield substantial advances across dozens of diverse industries, from the development of pharmaceuticals, to the chemical industry and financial services. Billions are being poured into the steady development of these computers, both into the hardware and the specialised software which can harness these devices.
Quantinuum was formed from the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell, QC software and hardware firms, respectively. These two highly respected companies had independently made quite a stir in the QC space and attracted substantial investment. Their merger has created the world's largest integrated QC company, able to build and operate quantum computers at both the hardware and software levels.
The organisation has moved fast and has already developed software and hardware for the application of QC in chemistry, natural language processing, machine learning, algorithms, and cybersecurity. All of these are exceedingly lucrative and high-stakes areas of business, and it is leaders in precisely these sectors (Google, for example, and IBM) who are investing so heavily in the QC project.
Quantinuum's software is system agnostic, allowing the advances it makes to be used on other quantum computers as well as its own, opening up major business opportunities. So Quantinuum is working in conjunction with some of the sector’s major players, whilst also pursuing high-value customers and lucrative market opportunities. It’s remarkable work, and impressively funded to match. It will continue substantially impacting the progress of key industries going forward.
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Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2020
$45m
LATE VC
Jul 2020
$14.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $82.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- A positive approach to flexible working
- Health insurance
- Commuting allowance
- Enhanced holidays
- Incentive schemes
Company HQ
Countryside, Westminster, CO
Leadership
Rajeeb Hazra
(CEO & President)Was previously a Senior Vice President & General Manager at Micron Technology. Before that was Corporate Vice President & General Manager of Enterprise & Government for Intel.
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