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Alice & Bob

Develops fault-tolerant quantum computer hardware

Engineering Manager

Engineering LeadershipUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeParis, France

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Master's or PhD in experimental physics, engineering, or a related field, with hands-on experience on complex hardware systems such as quantum systems, robotics, aerospace, or similar deep-tech environments.
  • Ability to turn a research prototype into a reliable product.
  • Solid experience with automated measurement and calibration of systems.
  • Strong data analysis and statistical rigor, including fit quality assessment, residual and uncertainty analysis, and the ability to build and defend a validation methodology rather than tune thresholds by intuition.
  • Good Python proficiency and working familiarity with workflow orchestration, including DAGs, scheduling, and conditional execution, version control, and continuous integration.
  • Experience leading a team or project, ideally in an interdisciplinary setting mixing physicists and software or data engineers.
  • Fluent English.

Responsibilities

  • Lead an interdisciplinary team of quantum experimentalists, data engineers, and software developers to advance automatic monitoring and recalibration graphs.
  • Develop a product with an internal version running across all quantum processing units to support research and development experiments, and an external version shipped alongside customer quantum processing units to monitor and maintain the system in specification.
  • Collaborate with experimental and software team leads and experts to align the team's work with company needs and roadmap.
  • Own the monitoring and recalibration graphs by defining and maintaining workflows, including which measurements run, on which systems, at what cadence, in what order, and under what conditions.
  • Guarantee dashboard data quality by owning fit validation, thresholds, and rejection criteria, and ensuring healthy and faulty systems are properly identified.
  • Define and track product performance metrics by translating internal user and client needs into metrics and following and improving them over time.
  • Operate and improve the production monitoring and recalibration service, track and fix failures, improve graph efficiency, and optimize chip availability time for users.
  • Lead and grow the team, set technical direction and software engineering standards, run team rituals, develop team members, and hire new team members.
  • Collaborate with other teams in the department by understanding their contributions to the product, expressing needed features, prioritizing requirements, agreeing on development timelines, contributing to the shared codebase, and fostering collaboration across teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • French language proficiency.

About the Company

Alice & Bob

Develops fault-tolerant quantum computer hardware

Alice & Bob builds quantum computers that use self-correcting superconducting qubits to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing. Their machines are designed to run any quantum algorithm, helping researchers tackle hard, complex problems with fewer errors. The product combines a quantum computer chip and related hardware to support quantum computation, backed by simulations to aid design and testing. Unlike others that rely on less error-tolerant qubits, this company focuses on error-free operation through self-correcting qubits, aiming to provide researchers and organizations a reliable platform for advancing quantum algorithms and solving challenging problems. The overall goal is to expand practical quantum computing by delivering a dependable, scalable hardware system that researchers can use to explore and implement advanced quantum techniques.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Early VC
Total funding
$162.1M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2020

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