Quantum Engineer (Neutral Atom)

About the role

Conductor Quantum is building quantum superintelligence.

Quantum superintelligence is an AI that uses quantum computers to surpass the capabilities of humanity's greatest minds. We are closer to that inflection point than most people realize. Frontier models are approaching general intelligence, and AI can already generate quantum circuits faster than humans can write them. The question is no longer whether quantum and AI converge; it is who builds the infrastructure to make that convergence reliable, scalable, and useful.

That infrastructure starts with the hardware. The biggest bottleneck in quantum computing today is not qubit count; it is the manual configuration that keeps those qubits from being usable. Our software automates calibration and operations across qubit platforms, turning raw hardware into a stable, ready-to-run platform accessible through a simple chat interface. By solving that bottleneck, we are enabling thousands, and eventually billions, of qubits to operate at scale.

The result is a quantum computer as easy to use as ChatGPT. The first billion users are coming. The majority, we believe, will be AI agents.

Why now

Today, AI generates production code faster and more reliably than most of the world's software engineers. Code is math; math is an instruction set; an instruction set is a quantum circuit. AI is already generating quantum circuits. It just needs reliable hardware to run them on, well-calibrated qubits to use, and a feedback loop tight enough to discover new algorithms autonomously.

The world's most capable AI models are being pointed at B2B SaaS. We are pointing ours at the frontier of science.

Role overview

You will work across the full neutral atom stack: from developing the calibration that makes a tweezer array run itself, all the way to hosting it online as a platform that human researchers and AI agents can build on. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role. You will define best practices, influence product strategy, and help lay the foundation for Conductor Quantum's culture and growth.

Key responsibilities

Atom loading and array assembly

Optimize the routines that carry a system from first trapping to a defect-free array. Drive up loading, survival, and uniformity across sites, and cut the time it takes to reach a filled array.

Qubit control and characterization

Develop the imaging and readout calibration that holds fidelity steady as a system drifts. Push single-qubit and Rydberg two-qubit gates to the fidelity our partners need. Maintain a state preparation and measurement error budget where every contribution is attributable.

Calibration automation

Encode expert tuning into software the platform runs on its own. Close the loop with the software and machine learning teams so calibration recovers without a physicist in the room. Develop the software that keeps a system stable and online. Keep the cooling, trapping, Rydberg, and Raman lasers locked without a human in the loop. Automate recovery when they drift or drop out.