# Senior Scientific Software Engineer — Autoresearch at QuEra Computing

- Company: QuEra Computing
- What the company does: QuEra Computing is the leading provider of quantum computers based on neutral-atoms. Our mission is to build the most scalable quantum computers. Backed by SoftBank VF.
- Company website: https://www.quera.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Boston, MA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-25
- Apply by: 2026-12-09
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/queracomputinginc/jobs/5463189008?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/quera-computing-senior-scientific-software-engineer-autoresearch/

## About the role

You will develop a reusable autoresearch platform that generates hypotheses, implements and evaluates candidates, and uses accumulated evidence to guide further exploration. Initial applications include automated performance improvement across our software repositories, quantum-error-correction code discovery with QEC theorists, and architecture search with compiler researchers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Strong software engineering skills and a record of independently delivering substantial research or developer tools, with proficiency in Rust or a comparable systems language and scientific programming in Python
- Deep practical experience in search and optimization, particularly combinatorial optimization, evolutionary algorithms, meta-heuristics, or automated algorithm design
- Hands-on experience building automated discovery or optimization systems that iteratively generate candidates, execute experiments, and learn from feedback
- Strong experimental judgment: choosing meaningful objectives, allocating evaluation budgets, diagnosing failures, and distinguishing genuine improvements from noise or evaluation artifacts
- Ability to work with researchers across disciplines and turn mathematical ideas into reliable computational tools

Tags: Scientific Software and Compilation

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