Manager Rigetti Computing Jobs in Santa Clara, CA

Job Summary:
Rigetti Computing is a pioneer in full-stack quantum computing, developing and maintaining software systems for superconducting quantum circuits. The IC Layout Automation Software Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance tools for designing and fabricating quantum devices.
Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and maintain production-quality software systems for IC layout generation and design workflows
• Refactor and improve existing codebases to increase maintainability, usability, and performance
• Build scalable and extensible software architectures that support evolving design and fabrication requirements
• Ensure code quality through best practices in testing, documentation, and version control
• Translate design and fabrication requirements into layout-ready implementations
• Work with GDSII and IC layout formats to generate, manipulate, and validate layout data
• Develop and maintain tooling that supports layout generation, verification, and iteration
• Integrate software workflows with existing EDA tools and design environments
• Partner closely with design, fabrication, and research teams to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define workflows and improve how design requests are translated into implementation
• Support users across multiple technical domains, improving usability and reducing friction in tooling
• Contribute to prioritization discussions across competing stakeholder needs
• Improve usability and accessibility of internal design tools to reduce errors and increase efficiency
• Identify and address gaps in current workflows, proposing more robust and user-friendly solutions
• Support the evolution of tooling from ad hoc usage toward more structured and scalable systems
• Balance reactive work (stabilization, bug fixing) with proactive development of new capabilities
Qualifications:
Required:
• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
• Strong proficiency in Python, with experience developing and maintaining production-quality software in a real-world engineering or technical environment.
• Proven ability to own and improve complex, long-lived codebases, including refactoring, architecture decisions, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
• Experience working with IC layout data and formats, including GDSII.
• Familiarity with EDA / IC layout tooling such as KLayout, gdspy, Cadence, or similar platforms.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to operate across teams that use different technical language and workflows.
• Working knowledge of semiconductor fabrication workflows, with exposure to lithography processes.
• Familiarity with lithography required; experience with e-beam lithography a strong plus.
• Ability to translate design, fabrication, or process requirements into reliable software implementations.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with stakeholders across software, hardware, design, fabrication, and research teams.
• Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing requests, and bring structure to evolving technical systems.
• Comfortable working closely with cleanroom, fab, or lab-based teams in an R&D environment.
Company:
Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company that builds and deploys full-stack quantum systems with superconducting qubits. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Berkeley, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.