Quantum EDA Software Engineer

IBM Research is seeking talented engineers to join the quantum hardware design/simulation team at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. The team focuses on delivering quantum processor and processor-adjacent designs to meet a variety of internal needs, and develops and drives the methodology to make these designs successful. Design scopes span from exploratory research to production-roadmap quantum processor unit development. Working in Research means joining a team that accelerates discovery at the intersection of high-performance computing, AI, quantum, and cloud. You'll collaborate with leading scientists, engineers, and visionaries to push boundaries and turn ideas into reality. With a culture built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration, IBM Research offers the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to breakthroughs that transform industries and change the world.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The successful candidate will join the quantum electronic design automation (EDA) effort at IBM Quantum and participate in development of the cutting-edge tools being used for designing quantum processor and testsite modules targeting IBM's proprietary superconducting technology. The role will be responsible for software engineering in support of the internal EDA ecosystem used to deliver IBM's flagship quantum processing units. The toolset of interest includes both internally developed software and industry-standard tools for hardware design, and the role requires strong spatial reasoning skills in addition to a core foundation in modern software engineering. Experience with EDA tool usage or development in the areas of routing and circuit optimization is strongly desired. Experience with quantum computing hardware is also a bonus, but not required. Because the role includes collaboration between several diverse and dynamic teams of technical and operations personnel, good communication skills, initiative, and a strong sense of responsibility are key.

Responsibilities Include

• Building user-friendly, robust software tools for making quantum computing hardware
• Participation in architecture development for hardware design methodologies
• Verification of tools using software development best practices
• Active support/debug for tool end-users

• Python (high familiarity)
• Linux (high familiarity)
• Object-oriented programming
• git
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Spatial reasoning and quantitative geometric skills

• Tcl
• C++
• Rust
• Industry-grade EDA tool experience (tools from Cadence, Synopsys, Keysight etc.)