Jobs at Atom Computing

Build, align, test, and verify optical breadboards and laser-delivery assemblies for neutral-atom quantum computers. Responsibilities include installing optical components, performing beam, polarization, power, wavefront, and fiber-coupling measurements, troubleshooting alignment issues, maintaining cleanliness and safety, documenting verification records, and improving repeat-build instructions with manufacturing engineering. The role requires 5+ years of hands-on optical assembly and alignment experience, with quantum optics or precision instrumentation experience preferred.

Build, align, characterize, and verify optical breadboards and laser-delivery assemblies for neutral-atom quantum computers. Responsibilities include installing and aligning precision optics, measuring beam and coupling performance, diagnosing optical issues, supporting optical bonding, maintaining clean-handling and laser-safety practices, documenting measurements and assembly records, and delivering verified subsystems to integration teams.

Leads whole-system integration and testing of neutral-atom quantum computers, including optical alignment, laser delivery, vacuum interfaces, RF controls, timing, software, diagnostics, and safety checks. Establishes repeatable integration procedures, readiness criteria, troubleshooting methods, and handoff processes with Quantum Engineers. Mentors integration staff, supports manufacturing improvements, advises on staffing and instrument scheduling, and resolves cross-subsystem hardware and software-interface issues.

Lead opto-mechanical subsystem design for quantum computing systems, including laser distribution, microscope imaging, optical cavities, and ultra-high-vacuum systems. Develop precision mechanisms and assemblies, perform stability, thermal, tolerance, and FEA analyses, and create component- through system-level designs. Own complex projects from concept to delivery while supporting assembly, alignment, testing, and integration. Mentor engineers and lead technical reviews.

Lead architecture, design, prototyping, deployment, and bring-up of custom high-speed mixed-signal electronics for quantum-computing control systems. Responsibilities include PCB and instrument architecture, FPGA and interface selection, analog/RF signal-chain design, clocking and power strategy, schematic and layout reviews, board characterization, cross-functional collaboration, and mentoring hardware engineers.

Lead the architecture, design, prototyping, and deployment of high-speed mixed-signal control electronics for quantum computers. Responsibilities include analog and RF front-end design, ADC/DAC selection, board-level circuit design, schematic capture, PCB development in Altium Designer, and hardware bring-up, verification, and testing. The role collaborates with quantum, FPGA, firmware, and software engineers and drives multiple concurrent hardware projects.

Leads a team developing, prototyping, validating, and delivering mixed-signal PCBs and precision hardware for quantum computing systems. Oversees hardware architecture, design, testing, manufacturing, vendor relationships, project milestones, risk management, and quality improvements. Partners with physicists, optical engineers, firmware, software, systems, operations, and manufacturing teams while contributing hands-on technical expertise and driving root-cause investigations and corrective actions.

Lead the design and development of complex opto-mechanical systems for neutral-atom quantum computers. Responsibilities include optical assembly architecture, ultra-high-vacuum chamber design, tolerance analysis, FEA, DFMA, design reviews, assembly and alignment oversight, system integration, vendor management, technical planning, troubleshooting, documentation, and mentoring engineers.

Lead theoretical and computational research for neutral-atom quantum computers. Develop atomic physics simulations and maintainable software, model experimental results and hardware noise, improve calibration and system performance, identify research directions, collaborate across quantum engineering and theory teams, and mentor junior theorists. The role requires deep atomic, molecular, and optical physics expertise, strong research leadership, software development practices, and experience with scientific, high-performance, or quantum computing.

Design and develop mechanical packaging for rack-mounted instrumentation and control systems, including enclosures, chassis, heat sinks, shields, cabling, and front panels. Create CAD models and drawings, perform thermal and airflow analysis, conduct tolerance studies, integrate electronics, and support prototyping, testing, validation, manufacturing transition, and production sustainment.

Leads the design, architecture, tolerance analysis, assembly, precision alignment, and performance characterization of optical and opto-mechanical subsystems for neutral-atom quantum computers. Collaborates with mechanical engineers and physicists on laser distribution, high-numerical-aperture imaging, and optical cavity systems. Develops alignment procedures, fixtures, and assembly processes while independently leading technical initiatives.

Designs and develops opto-mechanical subsystems for neutral-atom quantum computers, including laser distribution, high-numerical-aperture imaging, and optical cavities. Responsibilities include optical system design, tolerance and stray-light analysis, alignment procedure development, hands-on assembly, precision alignment, and subsystem characterization. The role collaborates with mechanical engineers and physicists and requires on-site work five days per week in Boulder, Colorado.

Leads the design, modeling, analysis, assembly, alignment, and productization of complex optical systems for neutral-atom quantum computers. Develops optical architectures, establishes design and alignment standards, performs tolerance and stray-light analysis, manages vendor development, oversees technical initiatives, mentors engineers, supports customer deployments, and contributes to intellectual property, technical documentation, proposals, and presentations.

Own end-user IT support across company offices, including onboarding, offboarding, hardware provisioning, inventory, access control, helpdesk escalation, SLA adherence, troubleshooting, security policy enforcement, and knowledge-base development. Support MacOS, Windows, and Ubuntu endpoints while administering Okta, Google Workspace, MDM, SaaS, and cloud services. Build automated workflows and self-service resources for a highly technical workforce.

Develop and optimize fault-tolerance schemes for neutral-atom quantum computers, including atom-movement strategies, decoders, quantum simulation tools, and classical compute layers. Implement error correction on quantum hardware while collaborating with experimental physicists, hardware engineers, software developers, and control systems teams. The role requires translating theoretical concepts into practical demonstrations and contributing to quantum-computing architecture and strategy.

Leads technical marketing for neutral-atom quantum computing products. Translates complex technology into value propositions, use cases, technical content, collateral, and presentations for academic, government, and industry audiences. Tracks scientific and commercial developments, shapes competitive messaging, validates technical accuracy, represents the company at industry events, secures speaking opportunities, and develops strategic relationships with customers, partners, and quantum ecosystem leaders. Requires a PhD, deep quantum technology expertise, strong communication skills, and travel up to 35%.

Designs, builds, and operates infrastructure supporting quantum control systems and research workflows across on-premises laboratories and cloud platforms. Owns infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, observability, security, compliance, incident response, and reliability improvements. Collaborates with software, hardware, control systems, and physics teams while evaluating infrastructure tools and balancing scalability, security, cost, and operational efficiency.

Design and maintain infrastructure supporting embedded systems for quantum computers. Responsibilities include OTA updates, device management, embedded security, monitoring and alerting, performance optimization, and CI/CD improvements. The role manages diverse on-premise and cloud infrastructure involving sensors, actuators, RF systems, lasers, and cameras, while collaborating with engineering and physics teams.

Maintain on-premises Linux servers and Windows VMs supporting quantum computing operations. Design automated workflows for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure, improve scalability, and build monitoring, alerting, and performance systems. Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment efficiency. The role also involves infrastructure-as-code, virtualization, containerization, hardware performance tuning, observability, and reliable production operations.

Leads and mentors a team of approximately five software engineers and quantum software engineers. Supports research-oriented scientific software and workflows, collaborates with physicists and mathematicians to develop production-grade software for fault-tolerant quantum computing, and delivers developer experiences for quantum error correction research and development. The role combines hands-on technical contributions, team leadership, software integration, and productization of prototype systems.