[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer, Databases @PsiQuantum

Role Description

The OS Core Team at PsiQuantum works closely alongside engineers and scientists in the electronics, system architecture, and validation teams and is responsible for building the scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant control plane and operating system for utility scale photonic quantum computers. As a Senior Software Engineer, Calibration & Control you will design and implement algorithms, controls, and software that keep our quantum processors in spec 24×7x365.

• Responsible for orchestration, scheduling, kernel architecture, co-design, calibration, validation, providing abstractions, systems, and operating software for the immense heterogeneous fabric of co-processors, networks, and photonics.
• Core system revolves around a high performance, scalable graph database containing critical information to control and manage PsiQuantum computing systems.
• Scale and extend the current core database systems to support the massive increase in size complexity of our systems.

Responsibilities

• Data systems design and implementation.
• Participate in design and code reviews.
• Collaborate across software, hardware, and research teams at PsiQuantum.
• Testing and maintenance of database software.
• Champion and serve as an exemplar of good software development practices at PsiQuantum.

Qualifications

• 15+ years experience with Python or C++ in a system software context.
• Design and implementation of large scale distributed storage systems, emphasis on graph databases.
• Proven track record of developing and shipping reliable, performant software in a high scale or mission critical context.
• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline preferred, or equivalent experience.

Ways to stand out

• Experience in graph database systems such as Nebula, neo4j.
• Experience in high performance computing and data design.
• Experience in computer architecture.
• Experience in high performance networking.
• Experience with highly scalable distributed systems in a reliability and up-time critical environment.
• PhD in a related technical discipline is a plus but not required.

Compensation

• U.S. Base Pay Range: $180,000 — $205,000 USD
• Bay Area Pay Range: $200,000 — $220,000 USD