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Our first customer installation is planned for 2027, and the evidence that the system works as users expect is what makes that delivery possible.\nAbout the Role\nAs Staff Quality Engineer, you will establish quality engineering as a discipline for our firmware production lane and bring the user’s point of view into how the system is verified. You will own the end-to-end test suites that exercise the system the way users do, and the test evidence behind customer acceptance and periodic non-regression. You will report to the team’s manager and work hands-on with developers, customer project teams, account managers and the hardware platform teams, acting as the quality reference through influence rather than authority.\nResponsibilities\nOwn acceptance and non-regression evidence for the delivered quantum system: complete and harden the acceptance test suite for the first customer delivery, run in-house dry runs before each software delivery, and produce test reports for provisional acceptance, service verification and periodic non-regression, in the customer’s format\nMaintain requirements-to-test traceability for contractual commitments, and contribute the test and verification sections of the Quality Assurance Plan\nTurn this work into a repeatable acceptance framework for future deliveries, customers and sites\nBuild system-level test automation: end-to-end and API tests on the job execution stack (submission, lifecycle, results, errors, quotas) across simulator, emulated and real-hardware backends, plus end-to-end tests on our web interfaces\nRun hardware-in-the-loop tests on our in-house systems, and build shared test tooling (fixtures, environments, test data, flaky-test management, CI integration)\nMake the system-level suites usable as release gates, complementing the developers’ own tests\nSet quality standards for the firmware production lane: release criteria, merge and release gates that apply whether the code is written by a human or an AI agent, and the bug lifecycle for customer systems (intake, triage, severity scale)\nMake quality visible through metrics (escaped defects, flakiness, time-to-detect), and coach developers across teams on testing practices and testability, especially in a context of AI-assisted development\nBring the quality and verifiability perspective into department-level initiatives and design reviews, and turn specifications into acceptance criteria with the product owner before implementation\nRequirements\n8+ years in software engineering, including 4+ years focused on test automation or quality engineering with a cross-team or organisation-wide remit\nStrong Python, and the ability to read and contribute to production code, not only test code\nProven experience building automated test suites from scratch for APIs and distributed systems (API/contract, integration, end-to-end) and integrating them as CI gates (GitLab CI or equivalent)\nExperience producing formal test evidence and reports for external customers (acceptance, service verification, non-regression), with rigor and traceability\nExperience testing systems with a hardware or physical component (hardware-in-the-loop, instruments, embedded or lab systems)\nA track record of setting quality standards across several teams and getting them adopted through influence, not authority\nMaster’s degree or engineering school (Bac+5) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience\nProficient English and excellent written and verbal communication; 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