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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<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">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 characterization and measurement platform.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">To continue advancing this work, we're expanding our Internal Software (ISW) team.</span></p>
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Senior Software Engineer, Internal Systems

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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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<h1 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f2a44;">Help Build the Legal Foundation for the Quantum Era</span></strong></h1>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Quantum computing could change how we discover drugs, design materials, secure communications, and solve problems no classical computer can. Rigetti is making that happen. We design and build superconducting quantum processors in our own fab and deliver quantum computing through the cloud and on-premises systems. We also work with leading government agencies, national labs, universities, and global enterprises to push the field forward.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The deals we sign now will shape how quantum computing reaches the world. We’re looking for the attorney who will lead them.</span></p>
<h1 style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 16pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f2a44;">Why This Role</span></strong></h1>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">This is not a role maintaining someone else’s playbook. You’ll report directly to the VP, Legal, as a key member of a lean, high-impact legal team, working closely with Rigetti’s executive team and having real influence over how the company does business. You’ll have the opportunity to grow Rigetti’s commercial and government contracting function. That means designing the templates, processes, and negotiating positions the company scales on, and serving as a trusted advisor to leadership. As the business grows, the function you build will grow with it, and so will your role.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The work itself is unlike anything else in tech law. In a single week you might negotiate the sale of a quantum computer, structure a research collaboration on next-generation qubit materials, and advise on compliance in a government program. Many of these questions have never been asked before, and you’ll help answer them.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">If you want your legal work to matter, not just to one company but to one of the defining technologies of this century, we’d love to talk.</span></p>
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Senior Counsel, Commercial & Government Contracts

<div>Rigetti Computing is at the forefront of building scalable quantum computers. We are seeking a <strong>Senior Mechanical Engineer</strong> to architect, design, develop, and optimize advanced hardware systems that form the backbone of our next-generation quantum computing platforms. In this role, you will lead the mechanical design and integration of hardware that enables RF signal delivery and silicon device packaging within dilution refrigerators. These systems form the critical interface between room-temperature control electronics and ultra-low-temperature environments where superconducting qubits operate. You will collaborate closely with quantum device physicists, electrical/RF engineers, systems integration teams, and external fabrication partners to deliver innovative, high-performance mechanical systems for customer-deployed quantum computers.</div>

Senior Mechanical Engineer

<p>Rigetti is seeking a motivated research intern to support superconducting qubit fabrication at Mevell NanoLab cleanroom at UC Berkeley. The intern will work closely with scientists and engineers on the design and fabrication of superconducting qubits, with an emphasis on scalable nanofabrication processes and device development. Fabricated devices will be measured and compared at Rigetti to inform process development.</p>
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<p><strong>What You'll Learn</strong></p>
<p>The intern will gain hands-on experience in the complete fabrication workflow for superconducting quantum circuits, including device layout, nanofabrication, microscopy, and process optimization. They will work alongside experienced researchers developing scalable fabrication technologies for quantum integrated circuits and contribute directly to advancing superconducting quantum hardware.&nbsp;</p>
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Research Intern: Scalable Fabrication of Superconducting Quantum Devices

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<h2><strong>About Rigetti</strong></h2>
<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>
<h3><strong>Role Overview</strong></h3>
<p>We are seeking an experienced Cryogenics and RF Field Engineer to support Rigetti systems deployed at customer facilities around the world. This is a hands-on, operations-focused role that travels to customer sites globally, working closely with both Rigetti teams and customer stakeholders in a highly collaborative, research-driven environment. The role is not tied to a single site — you'll be deployed to wherever Rigetti systems are installed, with assignments varying in length and location based on program needs.</p>
<p>In this role, you will work closely with physicists, engineers, and technicians to operate, maintain, and troubleshoot advanced RF and cryogenic systems that enable next-generation quantum processors. You will be responsible for ensuring reliable system performance in a production-like environment, including direct ownership of cryogenic infrastructure, RF hardware validation, and rapid debugging of complex, cross-disciplinary issues spanning RF, vacuum, cryogenics, and electronics.</p>
<p>The ideal candidate brings deep laboratory experience with R&amp;D hardware, has worked in customer-facing or field-deployed environments, is comfortable with international travel and working across time zones and cultures, and has direct hands-on experience operating and debugging dilution refrigerators.</p>
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Field Engineer: Cryogenics & RF Hardware

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<p>Rigetti is seeking a Lead Quantum Engineer for the Systems Performance team.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In this position you will play a critical role in shaping our technical roadmap. You will lead a cross-functional team focused on building the next generation of Rigetti’s quantum hardware, and take a high-ownership role in delivering the technologies required to unlock new levels of performance at scale.&nbsp;</p>
<p>In your daily work, you will propose new ideas to push the performance and scalability of superconducting qubit systems, design and execute experiments to test those ideas, and lead a diverse set of engineers and scientists to identify and mitigate key performance gaps.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The right candidate will have a demonstrated track record of scientific success across multiple institutions, technical leadership experience, a high-ownership mentality, and strong organization and communication skills.</p>
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Lead Quantum Engineer, Systems Performance

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<p>We are looking for an experienced Quantum Engineer to drive the two-qubit gate performance of our tunable-coupler superconducting quantum processors.</p>
<p>Two-qubit gate fidelity is one of the most consequential challenges in quantum computing, and it sits at the center of our roadmap toward error correction. In this role, you will design, execute, and interpret the experiments that propel our near- and long-term gate performance at scale. You will identify the dominant sources of two-qubit gate error on our processors, isolate their physical origin, and eliminate them — through pulse engineering, calibration methodology, error suppression strategies, or feedback to design and fabrication. Your conclusions will directly inform device design, control strategy, and platform-level decisions.</p>
<p>This is a role with substantial autonomy and ownership. You will directly influence the technical direction for gate performance work through the rigorous design and execution of your test plans, measurement and improvement of relevant metrics and error budgeting, and shaping of research priorities. You will do this in a deeply collaborative environment spanning device design, fabrication, control systems, software, theory and R&amp;D, turning proofs of concept into robust procedures that hold up across hundreds of qubit pairs.</p>
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Senior Quantum Engineer, Gate Calibration

<p>Rigetti Computing is developing superconducting quantum computers to solve some of humanity's most challenging computational problems. We are a highly interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers working at the forefront of quantum computing, materials science, and semiconductor fabrication. We value collaboration, curiosity, and technical excellence, and believe that diverse backgrounds and perspectives drive innovation.</p>
<p>As a <strong>Senior Process Engineer – Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)</strong>, you will own the process health and performance of one or more production deposition modules used to fabricate superconducting quantum processors — developing, optimizing, and qualifying thin-film deposition processes, and using data to drive continuous improvement. As you grow in the role, you will take on increasing scope in setting technical direction for your process area, mentoring other engineers, and representing process engineering in cross-functional decisions.</p>
<p>You will work closely with equipment, facilities, process integration, materials, design, and quantum engineering teams to solve complex technical problems and support the continued scaling of Rigetti's quantum hardware platform. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to both day-to-day manufacturing and, with growing scope, the technical direction of next-generation superconducting fabrication processes.</p>
<p>The ideal candidate has significant hands-on experience owning PVD processes in a production or scaled R&amp;D fab. Experience leading a process or equipment qualification end-to-end, or mentoring other engineers, is a strong plus but not required — candidates who are ready to grow into that scope are encouraged to apply. They are technically curious, comfortable operating with real autonomy, and excited to shape both day-to-day manufacturing and the development of next-generation superconducting technologies.</p>

Senior Process Engineer - Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)

<p>Rigetti Computing builds full-stack quantum computers — from superconducting qubit devices fabricated in our own foundry to cloud-accessible quantum processors. We are seeking a Senior Mechanical/Cryogenic Engineer to own the mechanical architecture of our quantum hardware systems, from room-temperature infrastructure down to the millikelvin core of our dilution refrigerators.</p>
<p>You will lead the design of the cryogenic signal chain, define mechanical interfaces across thermal stages, and work directly alongside quantum physicists, RF engineers, and systems teams. This is a high-ownership role: you will drive design decisions end-to-end, from concept through qualification, on some of the most technically demanding hardware in the industry.</p>

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