EDA Tool Developer; Intermediate, Senior

EDA Tool Developer (Intermediate, Senior, or Staff)

D-Wave (NYSE: QBTS) , D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services. We are the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and the only company building both annealing and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to help customers realize the value of quantum, today. Our quantum computers — the world’s largest — feature QPUs with sub-second response times and can be deployed on-premises or accessed through our quantum cloud service, which offers 99.9% availability and uptime.

More than 100 organizations trust D-Wave with their toughest computational challenges. With over 200 million problems submitted to our quantum systems to date, our customers apply our technology to address use cases spanning optimization, artificial intelligence, research and more. Learn more about realizing the value of quantum computing today and how we’re shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow:  .

You can read more about our company and our innovations in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Inc.

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At D-Wave, we’re helping customers realize the value of quantum computing today and are shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow.

D-Wave is seeking an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Tool Developer to join our Integrated Circuit (IC) Design team, which builds the chips at the heart of our quantum computers. These chips are some of the most complex superconducting integrated circuits ever fabricated and require a sophisticated, customized EDA toolchain.

We use a combination of commercial, open-source, and internally developed tools to enable this work. You’ll contribute to building, extending, and maintaining this ecosystem in collaboration with IC designers, engineers, and scientists.

The IC Design team is part of the Processor Development (PD) group, which leads the advancement of our quantum computing hardware. This is a software engineering role at the intersection of physics and hardware design. Your work will directly impact our quantum processor architecture and its capabilities. If you’re passionate about software development, complex systems, and collaborating across disciplines, we want to hear from you.

• Develop and maintain a homogenized toolchain/design flow for deployment on multiple systems, including servers and local systems.
• Extend our in-house electromagnetic simulation toolchain and modeling infrastructure.
• Build tools for EDA, including a circuit topology extractor, an at-scale parasitics extractor, chip density homogenization tools, incremental verification tools, and many more.
• Evaluate commercial and open-source EDA tools from vendors, compare against requirements, capabilities, and alternatives and integrate or extend them as needed.
• Customize tools and workflows to match our specialized fab processes and quantum hardware requirements.
• Automate, oversee, and maintain chip documentation and revision workflows.

• Post-secondary degree in electronic engineering, computer science, physics, or a related field.
• Experience with EDA tools at scale and the ability to contribute to their development or integration.
• Strong programming skills multiple languages (e.g., Common Lisp, Python, C++) and paradigms.
• Understanding of algorithm complexity and performance tradeoffs.
• Proficiency in Linux based development environments.
• Experience collaborating in software development teams and managing tool chains or infrastructures.

• Integrated circuit design experience, including circuit simulation, EM simulation, layout, parasitic extraction, and verification.
• Knowledge of superconducting or analog circuit design.
• Good understanding of the physics of electricity and magnetism, especially around superconductors.
• Experience developing EDA tools or tool chains.
• Experience with containerization of tools, for example using Docker.

Please note that we are hiring across multiple…