Senior Scientific Software Engineer — Autoresearch
QuEra Computing, Inc.1 day ago
Base Salary
$160k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build a reusable autoresearch platform with programmable search strategies, agent and tool integration, and reliable execution of long-running experiments.
- Develop and evaluate search and optimization methods for generating, selecting, refining, and combining candidates under limited computational budgets.
- Translate research questions with theorists and compiler researchers into search spaces, constraints, objectives, and executable evaluation procedures.
- Establish reproducible evidence using correctness checks, baselines, noise-aware measurement, and independent validation.
- Deliver useful discoveries and software improvements through automated research workflows.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills and a record of independently delivering substantial research or developer tools.
- Proficiency in Rust or a comparable systems language and scientific programming in Python.
- Deep practical experience in search and optimization, especially combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, meta-heuristics, or automated algorithm design.
- Hands-on experience building automated discovery or optimization systems that generate candidates, execute experiments, and learn from feedback.
- Strong experimental judgment in selecting objectives, allocating evaluation budgets, diagnosing failures, and distinguishing genuine improvements from noise or evaluation artifacts.
- Ability to collaborate across disciplines and turn mathematical ideas into reliable computational tools.
- Preferred qualifications include LLM-guided search, program synthesis, autonomous research systems, evolutionary computation, quality-diversity methods, tree search, Bayesian optimization, bandit methods, performance engineering, parallel experiment infrastructure, compiler optimization, formal verification, and quantum computing.
- Recent PhD graduates with substantial implementation ownership are welcome; a PhD is welcome but not required.
Benefits
- Equity grants are provided for all new hires.
- Base salary range is $160,400-$220,400, with compensation decisions based on geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and experience.
- QuEra is committed to a diverse work environment and is an equal opportunity employer.
About QuEra Computing, Inc.
QuEra Computing builds neutral-atom quantum computers and supporting software, offering access via its Aquila system on Amazon Braket and selling on-premise machines to research and enterprise users. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company delivered a large-scale system to Japan’s AIST and has been selected for DARPA quantum benchmarking efforts.