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You will have the opportunity to work with a vibrant scientific software team and a community of industry and academic collaborators and to help our growing team of diverse experts address fascinating challenges, ranging from classical compiler techniques to direct integration with low-level hardware components. Using our open-source toolchain, Kirin, you will be building QuEra’s compiler pipeline together with experimental & computational physicists from low-level hardware instructions to high-level programming languages. This involves the development of new features and infrastructure for hardware execution. You will be co-designing compilers and hardware infrastructure for the next generation of quantum computing using cutting-edge neutral-atom and quantum error correction technologies. 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The primary audience for these tools and workflows is internal researchers and experimentalists, and the work is closely connected to hardware/control electronics and lab execution needs. \nResponsibilities\nDevelop and maintain domain-specific language (DSL) for pulse-level programs and its associated compilation stack \nSupport integration of pulse compilation into multiple quantum computer builds \nCollaborate with Quantum Error Correction (QEC) scientists and hardware control team to plan and develop hardware features required for executing QEC algorithms \nCollaborate with other members of the scientific software team to integrate gate-level and atom-move compilation \nMaintain and update the internal execution software pipeline for the Gemini class machine deployed in AIST (ABCIQ), ensuring compatibility with evolving hardware/control capabilities and internal research workflows \nQualifications\nMasters in Computer Science with focus on quantum 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