Quantum Compiler Engineer​

Your mission Your responsibilities What you bring Nice to have Why join planqc planqc builds digital quantum computers from neutral atoms held in optical tweezers. We are a spin-off of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, based in Garching near Munich. Our software team owns the stack that turns a quantum program into the laser pulses and atom movements our machines execute. As a Senior / Lead Quantum Compiler & ISA Engineer, you will lead how programs reach our neutral-atom hardware: the compiler architecture, its intermediate representations, and the instruction set at every level from gates to pulses and atom movement. Depending on experience, the role can grow into technical lead for compilation. You work between physicists, software developers, control-system engineers, and our algorithm and quantum error correction (QEC) teams. You own the interfaces between them: which operations the hardware exposes, how programs are lowered onto them, and how people can see what the compiler did. About us planqc builds neutral-atom quantum computers based on arrays of optically trapped atoms controlled with high-precision laser systems. Our platform combines technologies from optical lattice clocks, quantum gas microscopes and fast Rydberg gates into a scalable computing architecture. Founded in 2022 as a spin-off from MPQ and LMU Munich, we translate more than a decade of AMO research into deployable quantum systems. Our work spans vacuum and laser hardware, control electronics, firmware, system software and algorithm integration. We focus on turning complex experimental setups into stable, reproducible systems that operate in real computing environments. Behind this technology is a team that pushes technical boundaries, values open exchange and shared ownership. Physicists, engineers, software developers and business specialists work closely together, often across disciplinary limits. We believe progress comes from combining deep expertise with practical engineering and from giving people the responsibility and trust to shape their domain. As we grow across our locations in Garching, Ulm, and Innsbruck, we continue to build a company where people take ownership, learn from each other, and directly shape the systems we bring into operation.