Senior Software Engineer
Alice & Bob9 hours ago
Paris, FranceSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain low-level drivers and hardware abstraction layers for control electronics and FPGA-based instruments.
- Define hardware/software interfaces that separate control electronics from higher-level experiment logic.
- Collaborate with physicists and researchers to align models and interfaces with experimental needs.
- Drive architectural strategy, technical roadmaps, and cross-organizational alignment.
- Mentor engineers, challenge technical assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience designing low-level software stacks close to hardware.
- Superior proficiency in Python.
- Ability to design abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for real-time, timing-sensitive, and low-latency hardware interactions.
- Hands-on experience writing hardware-instrument drivers or low-level interfaces using technologies such as VISA, SCPI, PCIe, Ethernet/UDP, or custom protocols.
- Strong understanding of digital signal processing fundamentals, including sampling, filtering, modulation/demodulation, waveform generation, and acquisition.
- Ability to collaborate with physicists, academic-level experts, and highly technical researchers.
- Strong technical leadership and the ability to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decisions.
- Experience with automation systems such as schedulers, workflow engines, configuration graphs, or data pipelines is preferred.
- Product mindset covering end-to-end delivery, user experience, reliability, and lifecycle is preferred.
- Experience delivering hardware-backed products such as accelerators, HPC nodes, or scientific instruments to external users is preferred.
Benefits
- BSPCE plan and bonuses for driving core patents.
- Flexible remote policy of up to 40% per month.
- Parental plan with benefits such as crèche support and additional days off for caring for children under 12.
- Subsidized Urban Sports Club membership and mental health support through moka.care.
- 25 days of vacation plus RTT, according to French law.
- Half of transportation costs covered or a yearly allowance for bicycle users.
- Health coverage with Alan.
- Meal vouchers with Swile and access to a stocked kitchen.
- French language courses covered by the company.
- Recruitment process includes screening, hiring manager, technical team, leadership, and fit interviews.
About Alice & Bob
Alice & Bob develops fault-tolerant quantum computers based on superconducting “cat qubits” for research labs and industry exploring practical quantum algorithms. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Paris with an office in Boston, this privately held company designs and fabricates its own processors and operates a prototyping cleanroom in Île-de-France. Its work spans quantum hardware, nanofabrication, and control software.