Software Developer - Photonics Tooling (Hybrid)

About Xanadu

Xanadu’s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.

At Xanadu, we are learners, innovators, researchers, collaborators and problem solvers. We are creating something that has never been built before. What we are doing is extremely hard, the classic moon shot. Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this, where if we are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world’s most challenging problems and literally change the world. And that is something to be excited about!

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Software Developer, you will contribute to the platform and the infrastructure for our software and hardware products. You will work on a team to support the photonic integrated circuit development at Xanadu. Your primary goal will be to accelerate software development practices on a primarily hardware-oriented team. As a result, you will completely reshape the nature of computation as we know it. You will:

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain simulation tooling, data management, and communication software products, including their supporting infrastructure, that enable various parts of our hardware development and operation processes.
• Maintain chip deign codebases and improve refactoring processes through automated tests and code analysis.
• Work closely with Hardware Engineers to design and implement solutions to enable quantum hardware operation.
• Ensure high-quality production code by maintaining automated test coverage and a dynamic code review process.
• Perform tasks such as maintaining our CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

At Xanadu, we primarily work with Python, Rust, Postgres, Docker, GitHub Actions, and AWS. For this role, proficiency in Python will be strongly preferred.

Basic qualifications and experience

• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.
• 2+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge of Python.
• Product-minded approach to software development.
• Self-driven to deliver high-quality solutions to your stakeholders.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• A desire to learn the fundamentals of a new field in order to cater software solutions.

Preferred qualifications and experience

• Experience with simulation & EDA tooling for integrated photonics, or chip design in general.
• Experience with optical or multi-physics simulation tools (e.g., FDTD, Finite Element Methods, Ray Tracing)
• Experience with Python-focused CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider.

Values

Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for the culture at Xanadu.