Infrastructure Manager, Rigetti Computing
$215-275k
+ Equity
Office located in Berkeley, CA
Cloud-based quantum computing
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Cloud-based quantum computing
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$215-275k
+ Equity
Office located in Berkeley, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most important and pressing problems.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading or managing Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE teams
- Experience building infrastructure in startup or rapidly evolving environments
- Strong hands-on experience with modern infrastructure stacks including:
- AWS or other major cloud providers
- Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)
- Experience supporting production distributed systems
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across highly technical teams
What the job involves
- Rigetti is seeking a Software Infrastructure Manager to lead the team responsible for building and operating the software infrastructure that powers our quantum computing platform
- You will sit at the intersection of cloud systems, on-prem laboratory infrastructure, and semiconductor fabrication environments, supporting both internal research systems and the infrastructure behind Rigetti’s quantum cloud platform
- This role comes at a critical moment for the company. Rigetti is transitioning from primarily offering quantum computing as a cloud service toward deploying quantum devices in external environments, which requires evolving our infrastructure architecture to support hybrid deployments across cloud and on-prem environments. At the same time, the company is maturing operationally, introducing stronger operational processes, security and compliance frameworks, and greater reliability in production systems
- The Infrastructure Manager will lead a small but highly capable team, helping bring greater structure, resilience, and coordination to the infrastructure organization while ensuring the platform continues to scale alongside the company’s growth
- Rigetti’s environment is technically complex, combining cloud-native systems with specialized quantum hardware and semiconductor fabrication equipment, making infrastructure work both challenging and highly interdisciplinary
- Provide leadership and cohesion for the infrastructure engineering team, helping align priorities and ownership across the group
- Manage and support the development of infrastructure engineers while fostering a collaborative and sustainable team culture
- Increase organizational resilience by reducing reliance on individual experts and building stronger shared knowledge across the team
- Support hiring and help build the case for expanding the infrastructure team as the company grows
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of the infrastructure supporting Rigetti’s quantum computing platform, including AWS-based cloud systems, Kubernetes-orchestrated container workloads, CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI), infrastructure automation (Terraform and Ansible), and backend services built primarily in Python/Flask
- Support data infrastructure including Postgres databases and Kafka streaming pipelines
- Maintain hybrid infrastructure integrating cloud systems with on-prem laboratory and fabrication environments
- Improve internal developer tooling and infrastructure usability to increase engineering productivity across teams
- Guide architecture discussions around hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure supporting both research environments and external deployments
- Help mature Rigetti’s infrastructure capabilities as the company scales by introducing more robust operational practices and processes
- Improve system resilience, reliability, and documentation for production environments
- Identify opportunities to simplify overly complex infrastructure patterns and improve operational efficiency, including examining/improving cost structure
- Work closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams including software engineers, quantum engineers, and hardware teams
- Support the company’s transition toward external hardware deployments, requiring infrastructure that operates across both cloud and on-prem environments
- Integrate infrastructure systems with lab devices, fabrication environments, and specialized hardware platforms
- Manage relationships with infrastructure and networking vendors
- Evaluate long-term networking strategy and opportunities to bring additional networking capabilities in-house
- Coordinate with contractors and partners supporting infrastructure and networking systems
Our take
Quantum computing received its first proof of concept in recent years, but remains abstract and unapproachable in terms of real-life applications. The technology would be enormously beneficial in combination with recent tech innovations such as cloud computing, but this application has been relatively unexplored.
Rigetti Computing builds quantum-computer systems that can be accessed through a cloud-based platform. These cloud services allow users to utilize the power of Rigetti's computers, built through a hybrid of quantum processors and traditional servers. The idea here is to increase access to the cutting-edge potential of quantum computing to all types of companies.
Despite the company's respected position in the field, which saw its 2022 participation in a joint project with Riverlane to tackle syndrome extraction (a key step in making quantum computers more accurate), it has found little fortune in 2023. In February it layed off 28% of its staff and replaced both its CFO and CTO, as it faced delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company hopes that refocussing on its core technology will enable it to recover from this situation and regain its footing moving forward.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Jun 2022
$0.7m
GRANT
Aug 2020
$79m
SERIES C
Total funding: $272.8m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage - we cover 98% and 95% of employees’ and dependents’ premiums respectively
- Stock-based compensation for every full time employee
- Flexible vacation policy
- Remote work options
- Generous parental and military leave
Company HQ
Southwest Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Subodh Kulkarni
(CEO)Member of the Board of Directors at KeyTronic Corp, Chairman of the Board at Prism Computational Sciences, and BoD Member at CyberOptics, where they were formerly the President and CEO.
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