# Quantum Fault-Tolerant Architecture Specialist at Zapata Ai

- Company: Zapata Ai
- What the company does: About Zapata Quantum Zapata Quantum is shaping the future of quantum computing: setting the standards for what’s viable, valuable, and worth building. Backed by The Engine Accelerator.
- Company website: https://zapataquantum.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Zapata Quantum
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-14
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/zapata-quantum/jobs/bc4eed16-d3ae-42d8-9852-e00559b5fc46
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zapata-ai-quantum-fault-tolerant-architecture-specialist/

## About the role

We are seeking a Quantum Fault-Tolerant Architecture Specialist to lead development of the software stack that maps logical quantum circuits to executable fault-tolerant implementations. You will own the architecture roadmap, compilation methodology, and physical resource-estimation models across different codes and architecture paradigms.

## What they're looking for

- Own the roadmap for translating logical circuits into fault-tolerant operations, layouts, schedules, and costed physical implementations
- Develop code-aware lowering and resource models for surface, qLDPC, color, and emerging codes under explicit hardware, connectivity, and noise assumptions
- Lead software components and APIs for code geometry, logical operations, syndrome extraction, decoding, routing, scheduling, and magic-state factories
- Build reproducible estimators for physical qubits, runtime, space-time volume, throughput, failure probability, and uncertainty
- Benchmark decoders, QEC simulations, logical error rates, and architecture tradeoffs
- Define fault-tolerant IR constructs, backend passes, tests, and specifications with the compiler engineer on the team

Tags: R&D

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/zapata-ai-quantum-fault-tolerant-architecture-specialist/