Rigetti Computing is a leading quantum computing company that was founded in 2013. The company specializes in developing and delivering integrated quantum computing systems and services to help solve complex problems across various industries. Rigetti's cutting-edge technology is at the forefront of the quantum computing revolution, offering scalable solutions that pave the way for advancements in research, machine learning, and computational simulations.

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Test and Assembly Engineer, Quantum Devices

Materials & Process Engineer: PCB, Flexible cables, Interconnect

Quantum Circuit Packaging Specialist

Senior Software Engineer, QPU Software

Senior Software Engineering Leader

Senior Process Engineer, Test and Packaging

2025 Rigetti Internship

Flexible Electronics and Materials Researcher

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As an Electrical Engineer on Rigetti’s Control Systems team you will design, develop, test, and deploy hardware that generates microwave pulses controlling and reading the qubits in our quantum computer. You’ll be working closely with other teams with different backgrounds including embedded software engineers, mechanical engineers, and physicists. We want you to bring your previous experience and deepen our team’s knowledge of low-noise mixed-signal board design, including experience specifying and designing critical circuit components such as low-noise power supply rails, precise clock distribution, and high-speed transceivers.</span></div>

Senior Electrical Engineer, Control Systems

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. We believe this technology will fundamentally change the world for the better and will affect nearly every industry over the coming decades.&nbsp; </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a Senior Software Engineer for Compute Infrastructure, you are responsible for helping to build and maintain Rigetti’s core cloud infrastructure. You will help own/implement and maintain the vital systems that power all aspects of our business and you’ll work cross functionally with world-class engineers and physicists to pioneer the most advanced Quantum Compute Platform in the world. This is a rare opportunity to combine onsite quantum infrastructure with modern cloud technology.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Location Note: You'll keep a hybrid work schedule, present for at least 3 days a week in our Berkeley office. Your physical systems and your key customers are there, and you need to know them, spend time with them, understand them, and help them.</div>

Senior Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure

<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. We believe this technology will fundamentally change the world for the better and will affect nearly every industry over the coming decades. Now a public company, Rigetti is looking to expand its Engineering Operations team through the addition of an experienced Microwave and Cryogenic Engineer.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a hands-on, Operations-focused role in a deep R&amp;D environment. As a Microwave and Cryogenics Engineer at our Fremont, CA quantum computing FAB and R&amp;D facility, you will work alongside a team of physicists, engineers, and technicians to support the development of leading-edge quantum computing technologies.&nbsp; Your responsibilities will include assembling and testing advanced RF assemblies, operating and debugging cryogenic systems, developing and maintaining best practices and standard operating procedures, and technical troubleshooting. You will utilize advanced electronic test equipment to characterize custom RF hardware in partnership with engineers from multiple disciplines, and you will play a key role in advancing Rigetti’s best practices around quantum hardware testing and deployment.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The ideal candidate has deep lab experience working with sub-Kelvin cryogenic equipment, and will have performed a hands-on function with interdisciplinary advanced technology teams at industry-leading companies, academic labs, or similar.&nbsp;</span></div>

Cryogenics Engineer (Fremont)

<div>Don't see an open position that fits your background? Apply here so we can keep your resume on file for future opportunities! </div><div><br></div><div>Our recruiting team will reach out to you for next steps if a team member is interested in learning more about your background. All applications submitted through this link will be kept on file and in consideration for at least two years. </div><div><br></div><div>Due to the competitive nature of our applicant pool and the specific needs of our business, we will not be able to consider all opportunistic applicants for a position in the company. Please be as specific as possible in your application to help us help you find the best opportunity here!</div><div><br></div><div>Note on Internships: No internships are available at this time, please check back in early 2026. Please refrain from contacting Rigetti employees regarding opportunities. Should future internship positions become available, we will post them on our careers page and only applicants who apply through the job post will be considered.</div>

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a Quantum Engineer in the quantum integrated circuit design team, you will play a critical role in our design, fabrication and test flywheel. Through comprehensive, robust analyses of large, ever-expanding datasets obtained from existing quantum processors and test devices, you will extract relevant empirical calibrations to improve the accuracy of our processor design and the performance of subsequent generations of processors. You will develop software infrastructure to streamline and automate these analyses to accelerate learning cycles. Finally, you will collaborate closely with researchers and engineers across Rigetti to monitor and improve fabrication yield, and improve the models and infrastructure used to predict processor performance from foundry monitor data.</span></div>

Quantum Engineer, Design Calibration

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">At Rigetti, our mission is to build the world’s most powerful computers to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Rigetti is a pioneer in superconducting Qubits and full stack quantum computing systems. In addition to introducing the first multi-chip quantum processor, Rigetti has led the way in software systems for quantum computing, with a distributed operating environment for hybrid quantum-classical computing, and a state-of-the-art streaming characterization and measurement development and execution platform.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Leader to head the team responsible for software systems that enable the creation, delivery and maintenance of Rigetti’s quantum computers. This includes systems for device design, chip fabrication workflows, physics-informed data analysis, quantum gate-design, and quantum mitigation and error correction technologies. This also includes managing the team and supporting&nbsp; the development of software systems for quantum QPU and system characterization. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of state-of-the-art software engineering, hardware, and scientific computing.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 16px;">Role Overview</b></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a Senior Software Engineering Leader, you will drive the creation of software platforms that enable the design, fabrication, characterization, and measurement of quantum systems, with a strong emphasis on integrating into the engineering process. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">You will lead a team of professional software engineers, and collaborate closely with quantum hardware teams, quantum control systems designers, chip designers, fabrication engineers, and algorithm researchers. You’ll be responsible for engineering and system design that spans the entire gamut of our foundry operations through the delivery of an integrated quantum computing system, and delivery of characterization and measurement software to customers. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">This is a unique opportunity to build software systems critical for the design and delivery of Rigetti’s computing systems, and, in some cases, delivered to customers to operate and maintain those quantum computers.</span></div>

<div>Rigetti builds quantum computers to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. Our systems combine superconducting qubit technologies with integrated classical infrastructure, enabling cutting-edge research and real-world applications.</div><div><br></div><div>The Internal Software team at Rigetti is responsible for supporting and accelerating the continual improvement of the company's quantum processor hardware: theory and design; fabrication; device characterization for process feedback; and calibration and deployment of our quantum processing units (QPUs) for benchmarking and application development. We own data infrastructure, web applications, and a framework for writing and rewriting calibration software in Python by teams of users/developers who specialize in experimental physics.&nbsp;We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will drive improvements to data-intensive workflows, ensure platform reliability, and enable our engineers and scientists to build with speed, confidence, and clarity.</div>

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