Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, PASQAL
Programmable quantum simulators
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Programmable quantum simulators
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To shape the technological landscape of the 21st century.
Role
Who you are
- Cloud architecture: Proven experience designing public cloud platforms, ideally on GCP. Strong AWS expertise welcome with a willingness to ramp up on GCP
- Platform evolution: Ability to audit existing systems, prioritize improvements and deliver changes incrementally
- Infrastructure: Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Linux and cloud networking
- DevOps & CI/CD: Hands-on GitOps and CI/CD expertise, including progressive rollouts and GitLab administration (GitHub also welcome)
- Security-first mindset: Solid knowledge of IAM, least privilege, secrets management, encryption and vulnerability management
- Production ownership: Ability to participate confidently in on-call rotations
- Professional English: Ability to collaborate and document effectively in English
- Clear communication: Explain architectural choices and trade-offs to technical and non-technical teams, and document decisions, runbooks and standards
- Autonomy & impact: Take ownership, focus on results and navigate ambiguity and legacy systems confidently
- Collaborative mindset: Work effectively across software, quantum research and hardware teams; propose, challenge constructively and build consensus
- Team development: Help others grow through reviews, pairing and knowledge sharing, without formal management responsibility
Desirable
- Service mesh (Istio), external-dns, Grafana/LGTM observability stack, Cloud Armor
- Experience with regulated or audited environments (SOC2, ISO 27001, NCA CCC/ECC)
- Multi-region or sovereign-cloud deployments
- Exposure to HPC and SLURM scheduling
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKS)
- Experience with data engineering architectures
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, harden and operate the infrastructure behind PASQAL Cloud Platform. You will take ownership of our public cloud architecture (mainly GCP), understand the existing platform in depth
- You will be expected to propose and execute a sequenced improvement roadmap - in close alignment with the Infrastructure Engineering Manager, to whom you will report
- PASQAL Cloud is the managed service through which customers submit quantum jobs to our emulators and QPUs. It runs on Kubernetes across several regional platforms (Europe, Middle East)
- This is a senior individual-contributor role with design responsibility, inside a small Ops team. You will work primarily on the cloud infrastructure but will also occasionally contribute HPC cluster resources which are used for emulation purposes
- Improve and operate our platform with GCP: networking (VPC, load balancing, DNS, firewall policies, WAF), identity (IAM, OIDC, workload identity), multi-region and multi-tenant concerns, resilience and cost control
- Define and document governance rules, infrastructure standards and golden paths (versioned modules, review rules, guardrails), and get them adopted by the teams that use them
- Support software engineering teams on deployment automation, environment provisioning and production readiness — you are an enabler, not a ticket queue
- Strengthen monitoring, alerting and incident response; take part in on-call and turn incidents into durable fixes
- Operate, configure and secure infrastructure related GitLab configuration : CI/CD design, runners, permissions, secrets handling, supply-chain and instance hardening
- Propose improvement plans, then break them down and sequence their execution (migrations, refactors, hardening) without disrupting production
Application process
- 30min interview with Technical Acquisiton Partner
- 1h Hiring Manager interview with the Lead of Ops — experience, scope, ways of working
- 1h30 Technical interview with the Ops team — architecture case study: review an existing platform, spot the blockers, propose and sequence a plan
- 45min VP Software platform interview
Our take
Classical computing, using bits made up of ones and zeros, has almost reached the physical limits of its capabilities, with engineers running out of ways to fit more transistors onto a computer chip. Meanwhile, the processing demands on computing hardware only increase. Quantum computers have long been posited as a solution to this issue, with processors able to exploit quantum mechanics to perform calculations exponentially faster than any classical computer. Founded by a Nobel Prize for Physics recipient, Pasqal exists to bring quantum computing out of the realm of scientific research (and science fiction) and into the business world for the first time.
Pasqal is not alone in the race to produce quantum computers, and it faces competition from well-funded rivals such as IonQ and IBM. However, it is pursuing a different technological line - neural atom computing, which can manipulate individual atoms with laser tweezers. This has the advantage of being more scalable and energy efficient, and can run at room temperature rather than requiring supercooling.
In 2025, Pasqal closed an equity funding round from LG Electronics, a partnership which will see the companies work together to solve multiphysics simulation and optimisation challenges for LG. Having successfully built proof of concept models and overcome the technical challenges of manipulating a few and then hundreds of atoms, Pasqal is building a bespoke control system and beginning to implement quantum algorithms. Pasqal was also awarded one of five grants from the French Ministry of Defence in 2024, as part of a government plan to create 2 universal quantum computer systems for defence purposes by 2032. This new development indicates Pasqal's expansion from solely business purposes into new sectors where its technology can be impactful.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2026
$190.2m
CONVERTIBLE
Mar 2026
$190.2m
LATE VC
Total funding: $520.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible schedules to support work/life balance
- A dynamic, close-knit international team of co-workers
- An impactful role in a growing scale-up that is leading in the Neutral Atom Quantum Computing space
- An inclusive, supportive work environment that encourages career growth
- Competitive benefit packages
- Regular outings to support team work
- Lots of time off to enjoy the things you love outside of work
- Free time to learn and attend conferences/meetups
- Publishing and research encouraged with bonuses for new patents rewarded
- Employment Terms : Full time, Direct hire, Hybrid
Company HQ
Palaiseau, France
Leadership
Georges-Olivier Reymond
(Co-Founder & Chief Strategic Alliances Officer)Was previously R&D Manager at UnitySC and Project Manager with Safran.
Thierry Lahaye
(Co-Founder & Scientific Advisor)Before co-foudning PASQAL was a Researcher at CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Alain Aspect
(Co-Founder)French physicist who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physics for experiments with quantum entanglement.
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