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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Skills: Quantum Error Correction, Technical Leadership, Project Management, Mentoring, Theoretical Research
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
$72k–$90k/yr
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid
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Lead the development and strategic direction of Deltakit, an open-source platform for quantum error correction experiments. You will translate research concepts into robust software, manage the full software lifecycle, and engage with the user community.
Requires a strong technical foundation in computer science, physics, or math with extensive experience building high-quality scientific software in Python. Candidates should have a broad understanding of software systems and the ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship.
Cambridge, UK | Full-time | Permanent
Salary: £72,000 - £90,000 DOE
We will also consider part-time applications for this role. Please indicate your preferred working schedule in your cover letter.
Riverlane’s mission is to master quantum error correction (QEC) and unlock a new age of human progress. From advances in material and climate science, to complex chemistry simulation for new drug design, quantum computers will help humanity solve some of its most important challenges. But without QEC, the industry’s defining technical challenge, such breakthroughs can never be achieved. Riverlane is the world leader in QEC technology. QEC is a complex problem that requires a range of skills, talent and passion.
Having raised more than $125M in funding to date to accelerate our cutting-edge R&D in quantum error correction (QEC), Riverlane partners with many of the world’s leading quantum hardware providers and government agencies to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality. We are making remarkable progress and growing fast.
At Riverlane, our mission is to make it possible for anyone to write and run fault-tolerant programs on a quantum computer. A key part of that mission is Deltakit, our open-source, user-facing platform for building, simulating and interpreting QEC experiments. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own and lead the development of Deltakit, shaping its direction and ensuring it evolves to meet the needs of a growing and highly technical user community.
This role sits at the intersection of research and engineering. You will take cutting-edge ideas from the forefront of QEC and turn them into robust, intuitive software that researchers can rely on. Day to day, this means driving the design and delivery of new features, improving performance and usability, and ensuring the platform scales as adoption grows. You’ll play a key role in planning and prioritising the development roadmap, aligning technical delivery with research milestones, user needs, and broader organisational goals, as well as defining technical direction, making architectural decisions, and setting the standard for high-quality, well-engineered code.
You will also be closely connected to the people who use what we build. By engaging with researchers, engineers and the wider QEC community, you’ll help support adoption of Deltakit, understand how it’s being used in practice, and translate real-world feedback into meaningful improvements. You’ll also play a key role in planning and prioritising the development roadmap, aligning technical delivery with research milestones, user needs, and broader organisational goals. Through this, you’ll ensure the software not only reflects the latest research, but is accessible, reliable and impactful.
Riverlane operates at the forefront of a fast-moving and evolving field. You’ll work as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary team where ideas are shared openly and learning is continuous. As priorities shift and the technology develops, you’ll help guide the platform forward through both technical leadership and thoughtful planning, bringing clarity, direction and momentum to complex challenges, and playing a central role in advancing Riverlane’s leadership in QEC software.
We are considering a range of experience and are therefore advertising this role at different levels of seniority. Please apply to the role you feel best suits your skills and experience.
Please upload a CV and covering letter by clicking 'Apply Now'. Your covering letter should explain why you are applying for the job and what skills and experience you can bring to the role.
We review CVs as we receive them and interview as soon as we have applications that look like a good match. We do not use closing dates. So, please apply as soon as possible to avoid missing out on this role.
If you have any queries, please contact [email protected].
Everyone is welcome at Riverlane. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from eligible and suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity/paternity.
Women and other underrepresented groups may be less likely to apply for a role unless they meet all or nearly all the requirements. If this applies to you, we still encourage you to apply - you may be a great fit, even if you don’t meet every single qualification. We’d love to hear from you.
If you need any adjustments made to the application or selection process so you can do your best, please let us know. We will be happy to help.
Riverlane is the world leader in Quantum Error Correction (QEC), the technology that unlocks quantum computing's promise
The fragility of qubits means today's quantum computers fail under an avalanche of data errors long before they reach utility-scale. Riverlane builds QEC tools and technology that correct quantum errors as quickly as they occur. Using sophisticated codes and decoders on proprietary QEC chips, our technology identifies and corrects errors millions, and ultimately billions, of times per second. We accelerate the quantum ecosystem by working closely with many of the world's leading quantum computer manufacturers, government bodies and high-performance computing (HPC) centres. Together, we're opening a world of new possibilities.
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