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.

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti is building the infrastructure that enables practical quantum computing. Our facilities extend beyond traditional offices and include highly technical environments that must operate with exceptional reliability, security, and regulatory rigor. As the company continues to scale, facilities are a critical enabler of our technology, operations, and growth.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Position Summary</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Vice President of Facilities will provide senior leadership across the company’s facilities portfolio, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution. This role is responsible for ensuring that facilities are designed, operated, and evolved to meet the needs of a highly technical organization, while supporting long-term growth, capital planning, and operational resilience.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The ideal candidate brings strong judgment, comfort operating in complex environments, and the ability to translate business priorities into clear facilities decisions. They will partner closely with technical and operational leaders, external vendors, and regulators to ensure facilities reliably support the company’s mission. This role serves as a primary facilities advisor to executive leadership, providing expert guidance on risk, investment, and long-term infrastructure decisions.</span></div>

VP, Facilities

<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. Understanding the bottlenecks and improving the fidelities of operations on quantum chips is critical to achieve this goal.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">About the internship</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As an intern, you will work on implementing algorithms to learn the native Hamiltonian and noise governing the qubits on a superconducting quantum chip during parallel gate execution. You will model the effective Hamiltonian and noise on a small multi-qubit subsystem, co-design experiments to validate the model, reconstruct the Hamiltonian and noise from numerical simulations, and validate the model on the chip. You will produce a pre-production research codebase which can be used for continued development to learn the Hamiltonian and noise. This is a rare opportunity for an intern to work on cutting edge research outside academia, with the opportunity to interface with benchmarking, calibration, and device theory teams.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 16px;">Additional points:</b><span style="font-size: 16px;"> There is flexibility to work remotely or in the office at Berkeley. Your mentors will be remote. The internship should last 3 months over the summer of 2026, with flexible start and end dates.</span></div><div><br></div>

2026 Internship Project: Hamiltonian Learning

<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. Rigetti Computing is leading this change by developing and demonstrating quantum computing applications in quantum optimization, quantum machine learning, and quantum simulation.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 24px;">About the internship</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As an intern, you will work alongside quantum researchers to develop and implement a quantum many-body simulation aimed at solving classically intractable problems and answering fundamental questions about quantum system dynamics. In the context of contemporary noisy quantum computers, you will co-design experiments specifically tailored to extract maximum performance from Rigetti's hardware. Using numerical simulation tools, you will define the crossover regime where classical emulation falters as problem size increases, but experimental quantum performance is challenged by noise. You will execute experiments on Rigetti's QPUs and benchmark the results against defined targets to help identify the threshold for quantum advantage. This role offers a unique opportunity to conduct high-impact research in an industrial R&amp;D environment, working on a cross-functional project that involves Applications and Quantum Engineering staff.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The internship should last a minimum of 3 months over the summer of 2026, with flexible start and end dates. Although the mentors will be remote, there is flexibility to work remotely or in Rigetti’s office in Berkeley, CA.</span></div>

2026 Internship Project: Quantum Simulation

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Our quantum computing technology has the potential to transform nearly every industry over the coming decades. As a public company with deep roots in research and engineering, we are expanding our Engineering Operations team to support rapid advances in quantum hardware.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Role Overview</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">We are seeking an experienced </span><b style="font-size: 16px;">Microwave and Cryogenics Test Engineer</b><span style="font-size: 16px;"> to join our Fremont, CA Engineering Operations team. This is a hands-on, operations-focused role in a highly collaborative, research-driven environment.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">In this role, you will work closely with physicists, engineers, and technicians to assemble, test, and support advanced RF and cryogenic systems that enable next-generation quantum processors. You will be responsible for operating and maintaining cryogenic infrastructure, characterizing custom RF hardware, developing best practices, and troubleshooting complex systems that span RF, vacuum, cryogenics, and electronics.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The ideal candidate brings deep laboratory experience with R&amp;D hardware and has contributed hands-on within interdisciplinary teams in industry, academia, or national labs.</span></div>

Microwave and Cryogenics Test Engineer

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">We are seeking a motivated undergraduate intern to support software development for the characterization of advanced microwave amplifiers used in next-generation quantum systems.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">The intern will migrate and standardize measurement scripts into the company’s software stack, working closely with hardware and software engineers.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">This role provides hands-on exposure to microwave measurement systems, applied physics concepts in quantum sensing, hardware–software integration, and production-level engineering workflows. The completed migration will directly support scalable quantum architectures by enabling more robust and maintainable measurement infrastructure.</span></div><div><br></div>

2026 Internship Project: Quantum Hardware Characterization (Software)

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti is seeking a summer intern to support superconducting qubit fabrication at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The intern will work in the cleanroom alongside the MF team and Rigetti engineers to fabricate qubit devices using varied Josephson junction processes. Fabricated devices will be measured and compared at Rigetti to inform process development.</span></div>

2026 Internship Project: Quantum Materials (JJ Development)

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti is seeking a Senior FPGA Architect to join the development of FPGA-based control hardware used to drive our quantum processors. In this role, you will define FPGA architectures, implement high-performance digital logic, and collaborate closely with hardware, firmware, and quantum engineering teams to build scalable, low-latency control systems.</span></div>

Senior FPGA Architect, Control Systems

<div><span style="font-size: 16px">Rigetti is seeking a motivated student (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS, SWE, or related field) to develop a production-oriented, on-premise data automation and computer vision solution. This is an applied engineering role focused on building operational systems intended for future production integration rather than academic research.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px">The intern will develop a Python backend to process structured inspection data and apply image classification, design a retrainable model workflow, and contribute to a lightweight web UI for reviewing results. The intern will work closely with Defect Metrology and Software Engineering teams to ensure domain accuracy and production-quality implementation. This role is ideal for students pursuing industry careers in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or applied AI.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px">Educational Value</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px">Gain hands-on experience building a production-oriented computer vision system in an industrial environment. The internship provides exposure to backend automation, machine learning integration, retraining workflows, and lightweight full-stack development. Skills developed align directly with industry roles in Software Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, and Applied AI.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 24px">Key Responsibilities</span></div>

2026 Internship Project: Software Engineering, Computer Vision & Automation

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti Computing is developing cloud-deployable quantum computers to solve humanity’s most pressing and valuable problems. We are a highly diverse and interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers working at the cutting edge of technology in a mission-driven entrepreneurial environment. We believe that bringing teams from various cultures, educational backgrounds, and technical disciplines helps them to see things from more points of view and to make great products that change the world for the better.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Josephson Junction (JJ) yield is a critical driver of chip selection and scalability for larger quantum systems. As we scale to higher qubit-count architectures, robust tracking of JJ targeting, spread, opens/shorts, and wafer-level yield is essential to ensure predictable performance and informed calibration decisions. As a Josephson Junction Yield &amp; Data Systems Intern, you will work with the JJ process integration, E-beam lithography (EBL) module, and Internal Software (ISW) teams to establish a structured internal platform for JJ yield analytics. You will evaluate and improve existing internal tools for JJ yield tracking by designing and implementing dashboards for tracking JJ resistance targeting, wafer-level spread, and key SPC metrics. This tool should enable data-driven JJ size calibration inputs for future wafers.&nbsp;</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 16px;">You will work in a fast-paced environment and interact with a range of engineers and scientists in process, integration and design.&nbsp;</span></div>

2026 Internship Project: Josephson Junction Yield & Data Systems

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a Quantum Engineer in the quantum integrated circuit design team, you will drive systematic improvements to Rigetti Computing’s quantum processors through modeling and design. You will be actively involved in realizing the chips that are at the core of our technology stack. You will contribute to our full-wave electromagnetic simulation workflows and use it to model the performance of superconducting circuits. Drawing from your expertise in circuit Quantum Electrodynamics and full-wave radio-frequency engineering, from fundamental theory through practical application, you will identify and implement improvements to the integrated circuit layout to mitigate loss and crosstalk channels. You will lay out and design microwave multi-qubit circuits for fabrication and develop next-generation quantum processors.</span></div><div><br></div>

Senior Quantum Engineer, Quantum Integrated Circuit Design

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">As a Data Scientist in the quantum integrated circuit design team, you will play a critical role in our design, fabrication and test flywheel. Through comprehensive and robust analysis 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 metrology data.</span></div>

Data Scientist, Quantum Integrated Circuit Design Calibration

<div> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are looking for a Senior Quantum Engineer with expertise in superconducting qubits to join our hardware R&amp;D team.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This role is for someone who wants to work on technically difficult problems that directly shape a quantum hardware platform. You will not be optimizing within a fixed roadmap, you will help define it.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You will design, execute, and interpret experiments that push the performance and scalability of superconducting qubit systems. You will develop new gate schemes, explore advanced control protocols, and test architectural ideas that can influence platform-level decisions.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We operate in direct competition with the best-funded and most established teams in the world. We are looking for someone who finds that motivating.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You will have a high degree of autonomy and ownership </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; color: #1f1f1f; background-color: #ffffff;">while working in a collaborative environment.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> If you have a strong technical hypothesis, you will be expected to test it rigorously and defend it with data. Strong ideas move quickly through experimental validation.</span></p> </div>

Senior Quantum Engineer, Superconducting Qubits

<p>As a Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Computing, you will be a key contributor to the development of our gate-based, superconducting quantum computers. Your work will turn experimental ideas into ever-improving hardware functionality through rigorous characterization of qubits and gates, implementation of new measurement techniques, and interpretation of processor data. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams spanning device design, cryogenic/microwave hardware, control systems, fabrication, and software to push the boundaries of quantum computing to the scale and performance required for practical quantum computing and error correction.</p> <p>This is a general job posting for experimental physicists that leads to consideration for a targeted role with a specific focus. Topics could include: gate calibration, qubit relaxation and/or dephasing, piloting new research ideas in small processors, integration of new ideas into large processors, or implementation of quantum error correction.</p> <p>Your training and achievements as an experimental physicist in quantum information mean that you, more than anyone else, already know how hard this will be. And that’s why you’ve sought us out.</p>

Quantum Engineer

<div> <p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rigetti Computing is building quantum computers and the full-stack infrastructure required to bring quantum advantage to real-world applications. Our vertically integrated platform includes superconducting quantum processors, cryogenic infrastructure, control electronics, and cloud software that enables developers worldwide to run quantum programs on real hardware.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are seeking a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Senior Technical Program Manager</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> to drive execution across some of the most complex engineering programs at Rigetti. This role sits at the intersection of </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">quantum hardware, systems engineering, and software infrastructure</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, ensuring that cross-disciplinary teams deliver integrated quantum systems on schedule.</span></p> <h3 style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Role</span></h3> <p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Rigetti’s quantum systems require tight coordination between </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">research scientists, hardware engineers, and control systems</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. As a </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Senior TPM</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, you will own the planning and execution of large technical programs that bring these components together into deployable quantum systems.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">You will operate in a fast-moving deep-tech environment where many efforts are </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">research-driven and technically ambiguous</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">, requiring strong judgment, technical understanding, and execution discipline.</span></p> </div>

Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM)

<div> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As a Lead Quantum Device Theorist, you will play a central role in advancing the performance of our superconducting quantum processors. This position requires deep expertise in circuit QED, quantum device physics, and noise modeling for quantum error correction (QEC). You will work closely with experimental teams to model processor dynamics and lead efforts to improve qubit readout fidelity and quantum gate performance across our R&amp;D platforms.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">This role demands strong cross-functional collaboration with specialists in qubit readout, gate calibration, control systems, and superconducting circuit design. Together, you will drive innovations that support scalable architectures, quantum advantage, and fault-tolerant error correction.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are seeking a candidate who excels at solving complex device-physics challenges in large-scale superconducting quantum processors. You will develop mitigation strategies grounded in first-principles modeling, including optimal Hamiltonian engineering, noise-spectral analysis, and system-level simulations spanning design, and post-deployment characterization. This role requires deep expertise in circuit QED, tunable coupler architectures, multi-level system dynamics, and decoherence mechanisms, along with the ability to translate theoretical insights into experimentally actionable improvements in gate and readout performance. Strong collaboration across device design, calibration, and control teams is essential.</span></p> </div>

Lead Quantum Device Theorist

<div> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>Rigetti is seeking a Software Infrastructure Manager to lead the team responsible for building and operating the software infrastructure that powers our quantum computing platform.</p> <p>You will sit at the intersection of cloud systems, on-prem laboratory infrastructure, and semiconductor fabrication environments, supporting both internal research systems and the infrastructure behind Rigetti’s quantum cloud platform.</p> <p>This role comes at a critical moment for the company. Rigetti is transitioning from primarily offering quantum computing as a cloud service toward deploying quantum devices in external environments, which requires evolving our infrastructure architecture to support hybrid deployments across cloud and on-prem environments. At the same time, the company is maturing operationally, introducing stronger operational processes, security and compliance frameworks, and greater reliability in production systems.</p> <p>The Infrastructure Manager will lead a small but highly capable team, helping bring greater structure, resilience, and coordination to the infrastructure organization while ensuring the platform continues to scale alongside the company’s growth.</p> <p>Rigetti’s environment is technically complex, combining cloud-native systems with specialized quantum hardware and semiconductor fabrication equipment, making infrastructure work both challenging and highly interdisciplinary.</p> </div>

Infrastructure Manager

<div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Rigetti is building the world’s most powerful computers to solve humanity’s most important problems. Our teams bring together expertise across quantum physics, engineering, fabrication, software, and operations, and our ability to grow and develop technical talent is critical to our mission.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px;">We are looking for a Junior Recruiter to support our recruiting operations while developing long-term ownership of University and Early Career hiring. This role is well-suited for a recruiter who thrives in structured execution, enjoys working with deeply technical teams and is motivated to learn and grow in a highly specialized environment.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">This role includes periodic travel to support university outreach, career fairs, and early-career recruiting events aligned with Rigetti’s technical hiring needs.</span></em></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 24px;">Role Summary</span></div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px;">This role focuses on reliable execution, operational excellence, and skill development. The recruiter will work under the guidance of senior recruiters and leadership while independently owning defined recruiting activities and workflows, with increasing scope over time. The role requires strong attention to detail, effective communication, and a growing understanding of Rigetti’s technical domains.</span></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><span style="font-size: 16px;">In the near term, this role will provide hands-on support for scheduling, ATS management, and recruiting coordination. Over time, the recruiter will assume increased responsibility for University and Early Career recruiting programs, including intern and new-graduate hiring aligned with Rigetti’s long-term talent strategy. As the role develops, there will also be an expectation to build foundational sourcing skills, gradually contributing to candidate identification, outreach, and pipeline development across technical roles.</span></div>

Junior Recruiter, R&D

<div> <h3><strong>About Rigetti</strong></h3> <p>Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Our quantum computing technology has the potential to transform nearly every industry over the coming decades. As a public company with deep roots in research and engineering, we are expanding our Engineering Operations team to support rapid advances in quantum hardware.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </div>

Field Engineer: Cryogenics and RF Hardware

<div><strong>About the Role</strong></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Rigetti Computing is seeking a <strong>Lead Lithography Engineer</strong> to serve as the technical authority for our patterning ecosystem. Sitting at the critical intersection of high-end R&amp;D and scalable production, you will architect the "wet" process framework that translates quantum designs into hardware. You will partner with our EBL hardware experts to optimize beam-resist interactions while providing the technical vision for our track and optical lithography modules. This role is designed for an experienced engineer to take ownership of the broader lithography and metrology roadmap as we accelerate our qubit manufacturing capabilities.</div>

Lead Engineer, Lithography

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<h2><strong>About Us</strong></h2>
<p>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</p>
<p>We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager 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.</p>
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Senior Software Engineering Manager

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<h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2>
<p>Rigetti is seeking an IC Layout Automation Software Engineer to develop and maintain software systems that support the design and fabrication of superconducting quantum circuits.</p>
<p>This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, IC layout, and semiconductor fabrication, enabling the translation of device and process requirements into manufacturable layouts. You will work closely with cross-functional teams across design, fabrication, and research to build and evolve tools that are critical to how quantum devices are designed and produced.</p>
<p>This is a highly interdisciplinary role that requires strong software fundamentals alongside familiarity with IC design workflows and fabrication processes. You will play a key role in improving the reliability, usability, and scalability of layout generation and design tooling used in a cutting-edge R&amp;D environment and over time, in shaping what that tooling becomes.&nbsp;</p>
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