Senior Software Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer you will design, develop and maintain the low‑level software stack that directly controls quantum‑hardware instruments. You will act as a technical leader, shaping architecture, promoting best practices and mentoring junior engineers while collaborating closely with physicists and researchers.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain drivers and hardware abstraction layers for signal generators, AWGs, digitizers and custom FPGA‑based instruments.
• Define clean hardware/software interfaces that decouple control electronics from experiment logic, enabling rapid hardware iteration.
• Collaborate with physicists to ensure models and interfaces meet experimental needs and support fast iteration.
• Drive long‑term architectural strategy, technical roadmap and cross‑team alignment.
• Mentor team members, challenge assumptions and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience developing low‑level software close to hardware.
• Strong ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for real‑time, low‑latency hardware interaction.
• Hands‑on experience writing drivers or low‑level interfaces (VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP or custom protocols).
• Solid understanding of Digital Signal Processing fundamentals and their application to waveform generation and acquisition.
• Proven technical leadership and ability to work with academic‑level researchers.

Required skills

• Superior engineering proficiency in Python.
• Experience with FPGA‑based instrumentation and low‑level driver development.
• Knowledge of DSP concepts such as sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation.
• Familiarity with hardware communication protocols (VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP).