D-Wave (NYSE: QBTS), D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services. It is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, and the first and only to offer dual-platform quantum computing products and services, spanning both annealing and gate-model quantum computing technologies. D-Wave’s mission is to help customers realize the value of quantum today through enterprise-grade systems available on-premises and via its Leap™ quantum cloud service, which offers 99.9% availability and uptime.
More than 100 organizations across commercial, government, and research sectors trust D-Wave to address complex computational challenges using quantum computing. Learn more about realizing the value of quantum computing today and how D-Wave is shaping the quantum-driven industrial and societal advancements of tomorrow:
About the role
D-Wave is Seeking a Senior Software Developer to join our Processor Software team, which develops and maintains software supporting our internal Processor Development (PD), Hardware Engineering (HWE), and Lab Operations (Lab Ops) teams. This role focuses on developing the core software and infrastructure that interacts directly with our quantum processors across production and laboratory environments.
The ideal candidate combines software engineering expertise with a strong understanding of physics, engineering, or hardware-integrated systems. You will collaborate closely with scientists, engineers, and software developers to solve complex technical challenges that enable the development and operation of our quantum computing systems, while mentoring junior team members and contributing to the team’s engineering best practices.
What you'll do
- Contribute to the full software lifecycle, including requirements definition, design, development, testing, validation, deployment, maintenance, and decommissioning
- Design, develop, and maintain software supporting quantum processor calibration, hardware interfaces, operational infrastructure, system testing, and monitoring
- Take ownership of and responsibility for bugfixes, enhancements, and new feature development for the processor software ecosystem
- Improve software architecture, reliability, maintainability, and performance through optimization, testing, and documentation
- Independently own development tasks and carry out technical investigations.
- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and software teams to deliver initiatives spanning multiple teams
- Mentor junior developers through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing to strengthen engineering capability across the team
- Contribute to process improvements, technical discussions, and development best practices
- Participate in an on-call rotation supporting ensuring the availability and performance of our QPU solvers on the Leap cloud platform
About You
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, or a related discipline with demonstrated experience working on hardware-integrated systems
- 5+ years of relevant software development experience designing and delivering complex software systems
- Expertise developing high-performance software using compiled programming languages and multithreaded environments
- Strong understanding of software architecture, algorithms, concurrency, and performance optimization techniques
- Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing software interfaces to hardware systems
- Experience developing reliable, maintainable software for complex engineering or scientific applications
- Experience with Git workflows including branching, merging, and pull requests
- Experience working in Linux environments
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Self-motivated, adaptable, and eager to learn new technologies and domains
Bonus Points
- Experience with Common Lisp (SBCL) or similar functional languages such as Scheme, Clojure, or Scala
- Experience with Emacs, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, SQL, MongoDB, InfluxDB, Grafana, or Redis
- Experience developing software for hardware control systems, scientific computing, or…
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