Senior Software Developer

Introduction Qiskit is IBM Quantum's flagship opensource software development kit for quantum computing, enabling the development, compilation, and execution of quantum programs for a broad community of researchers, developers, and industry partners. As part of IBM Quantum, the Qiskit SDK team is building the foundations of a highperformance, open, and platformneutral quantum compiler and SDK, with the longterm vision of becoming the standard library and toolchain for quantum computing. Qiskit emphasizes productiongrade quality and performance, offering a platform with Python and C APIs and a design that accommodates future language bindings.

Your Role and Responsibilities We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join the core Qiskit SDK team. In this role, you will work at the intersection of systems programming, compiler infrastructure, and opensource development, contributing to software that shapes the future of quantum computing. You will be a core contributor to the Qiskit SDK and its underlying compiler and runtime infrastructure, designing and implementing performancecritical components, evolving public APIs, and collaborating closely with researchers, product teams, and the opensource community.

The role requires a strong sense of software ownership, technical rigor, and opensource best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain core Qiskit SDK components and APIs.
• Develop highquality, welltested, performancecritical code, with strong attention to usability, extensibility, and backward compatibility.
• Contribute to compiler and transpilation infrastructure, including IRs, optimization passes, and compilation pipelines.
• Review and mentor contributions from internal engineers and external opensource contributors.
• Participate actively in opensource workflows, including design discussions, code reviews, documentation, and releases.
• Collaborate closely with research, HPC, hardware, and product teams, and support external users and partners.
• Debug and resolve complex issues across a large, evolving codebase.

Required Education

• Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Education

• Doctorate Degree

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong proficiency in Rust and Python, with demonstrated experience building and maintaining performancecritical systems.
• Deep experience designing, building, or maintaining compiler frameworks or complex compilation pipelines.
• Strong understanding of compiler architecture, including IRs, optimization passes, and compilation pipelines.
• Significant experience contributing to or maintaining large opensource projects, including active participation in design discussions and reviews.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Handson experience with LLVM, MLIR, or similar compiler infrastructures.
• Experience designing custom IRs or domainspecific compilation workflows.
• Strong familiarity with quantum compiler concepts, such as circuit representations, compilation, optimization, or synthesis.

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• Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well-being.
• Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long-term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance-based salary incentive programs.
• Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law.
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