Senior Technical Product Manager - SDK and User Engagement

Summary

QuEra Computing is seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager – SDK and User Engagement to own the product strategy, delivery, and adoption of the developer tooling that researchers and developers use to run high‑impact experiments and applications on QuEra’s neutral‑atom quantum computers. You’ll operate at the intersection of quantum R&D, scientific software engineering, and an external developer community, translating capabilities across quantum‑classical hybrid workflows, circuit‑level programming, qubit/atom shuttling, and pulse‑level control into an SDK that is coherent, usable, and trusted.

This is a foundational product role in a fast-growing area. You’ll drive the end-to-end developer journey: from “time‑to‑first‑experiment” and documentation quality, to stable APIs and predictable release processes, to community engagement and open-source governance. Working closely with R&D and engineering teams, you’ll turn emerging research results (including advances in neutral‑atom platforms and quantum error correction) into concrete product requirements, representative examples, and developer-ready interfaces—balancing rapid innovation with robustness, reliability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Own the SDK product vision and roadmap
  • Define and communicate the product vision, positioning, and roadmap for QuEra’s SDK and developer-facing software stack.
  • Align priorities across company strategy, hardware/service constraints, internal stakeholders, and external developer needs.
• Translate science and R&D into software requirements
  • Convert quantum concepts, system capabilities, and new R&D outcomes into actionable product specifications (PRDs), Request for Comments (RFCs), and well-scoped deliverables.
  • Identify representative use cases, minimal reproducible examples, and benchmarking targets to validate requirements and guide implementation.
• Collect structured user feedback and drive prioritization
  • Collect structured feedback from customers and users on usability, UI, workflows, recurring pain points, and operational friction.
  • Synthesize insights into roadmap updates and requirements. Partner with software teams to ensure feedback is actionable, prioritized, and reflected in backlogs and release plans.
• Drive developer experience and steward an open-source community
  • Partner with software engineers and scientists to improve usability across the SDK: APIs, workflows, error messages, onboarding, tutorials, and reference examples.
  • Establish open-source triage and governance practices: issue taxonomy, labeling, prioritization, contribution guidelines, and community processes.
• Ensure quality, reliability, and operational readiness
  • Support QA, integration readiness, and operational considerations so SDK releases work reliably with hardware services (cloud and/or managed environments).
  • Drive versioning, deprecation policy, change logs, migration guides, and release communications to maintain trust with the community.
  • Help balance early-stage innovation with stability—setting expectations clearly when features are experimental vs. production-ready.

Qualifications

• M.S. in Computer Science, Physics, or a related field, with 5+ years of experience in technical product management, developer tools, scientific software, HPC, or adjacent domains.
• Proven ability to work deeply with engineering and research teams—comfortable operating in ambiguity and making sound trade-offs across scope, schedule, and technical risk.
• Strong understanding or hands-on experience in modern software engineering practices (API design, backwards compatibility, testing, CI/CD fundamentals, documentation, and lifecycle discipline).
• Ability to learn new quantum algorithms and translate them into clear requirements and minimal examples.
• Working knowledge of compiler concepts (e.g., intermediate representations, compiler transforms, optimization strategies) and a clear understanding of compile-time vs. runtime trade-offs.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills; strong at reframing “XY problems” into clear, actionable requirements.
• Proficiency with product management tools and agile execution (e.g. GitHub and Jira); demonstrated cross-functional delivery and project/program leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in quantum computing, quantum information, computer science or engineering (or related area) with demonstrated exposure to software development cycles (especially SDKs, compilers, or scientific tooling).
• 3–5+ years of hands-on technical development or research experience in scientific software, compilers, infrastructure, or tooling.
• Experience engaging and growing an open-source community (triage, contributor workflows, governance, and public roadmap practices).
• Demonstrated systems/low-level programming experience (e.g., Rust, C++) and/or compiler engineering experience (including contributions to widely used open-source compilers or developer toolchains).
• Strong track record of translating emerging research into pragmatic product requirements and developer-ready deliverables.
• Proven technical communication through public artifacts (e.g., blog posts, tutorials, documentation sets, workshops, talks, or example repositories).

QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.