Alice-bob is looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to define the service and platform architecture that enables agility, evolution, and scale for our quantum computing stack. You will create a cohesive, maintainable, and future-proof platform supporting experiment workflows, automation, logical systems, and QPU-as-a-product delivery.
What You'll Do
- Architect the services, APIs, and internal frameworks powering experiment workflows, calibration systems, automation loops, and configuration management.
- Choose and integrate appropriate storage technologies (SQL, NoSQL, object stores, columnar formats) to support scaling needs and diverse access patterns.
- Define architectural patterns that maximize agility, modularity, and maintainability across the platform.
- Collaborate closely with physicists and researchers to ensure models and interfaces reflect real experimental needs and enable fast iteration.
- Partner with data engineering to build reliable ingestion paths, schema governance, data lifecycle strategies, and cross-team storage standards.
- Shape the end-to-end architecture required to deliver the QPU as a cohesive product: API design, user orchestration, deployment strategy, and integration with HPC/cloud ecosystems.
- Drive long-term architectural strategy, technical roadmap, and cross-organizational alignment.
- Mentor teams, challenge assumptions, and lead architecture reviews across the platform department.
What We're Looking For
- 12+ years designing large-scale backend/platform architectures.
- Superior engineering proficiency in Python, async frameworks, service design, data orchestration, and performance optimization.
- Demonstrated experience architecting complex infrastructure and data-heavy distributed systems.
- Ability to define clean abstractions and synchronization mechanisms for hardware/software interaction loops.
- Deep expertise with storage technologies across SQL, NoSQL, timeseries, object storage, and distributed filesystems.
- Strong product mindset: ability to think about end-to-end delivery, user experience, reliability, and long-term lifecycle.
- Ability to collaborate and challenge ideas with physicists, academic-level experts, and deeply technical researchers.
- Strong technical leadership: able to influence direction, align teams, and support cross-domain decision-making.
Nice to Have
- Experience with containerization, reproducibility, and hybrid cluster deployments (Kubernetes, HPC).
- Hands-on experience with automation systems (schedulers, workflow engines, configuration graphs, data pipelines).
- Knowledge of distributed scheduling (SLURM, Kubernetes batch, Ray, Dask, etc.) and HPC environment specifics.
- Experience delivering a hardware-backed product (accelerators, HPC nodes, scientific instruments) to external users.
- Knowledge of Rust, C++, or Go for performance-critical or system-level components.
Technical Stack
- Python, Async frameworks
- SQL, NoSQL, Timeseries databases
- Object storage, Distributed filesystems
Team & Environment
You will be part of a 100+ person organization within the Framework team, a central resource working across the organization with researchers and technicians.
Benefits & Compensation
- 25-day vacation policy + RTT
- Half of transportation cost coverage or yearly allowance for bike enthusiasts
- Competitive health benefits with Helium/AXA
- Meal vouchers with Swile, access to a fully equipped kitchen
- Parental benefits with crèche support
- Flexible remote policy, up to 40% a month
- Language courses covered by the company
- Mental health support with moka.care
- Subsidized membership with Urban Sports Club
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role with a flexible remote policy allowing work from home up to 40% of the month.
Alice-bob is on a mission to reshape the future with quantum computing, and our team is united to reach ambitious goals.
