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# Senior Embedded Systems Engineer (Quantum Computing)

- **Company:** COLDQUANTA, INC. DBA Infleqtion
- **Location:** Madison, WI, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $190,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Bash Shell, UClibc (C Standard Library), Static Program Analysis, Continuous Integration, Linux, Linux on Embedded Systems, Hardware Description Language, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Quantum Computing, Software Engineering, System on a Chip, SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL), Scripting, Git, Linux Development, Yocto, Information Technology, Functional Programming, Software Version Control
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_6d20e75b1

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or related field and a minimum of 8 years prior work experience.
 * Expertise in working with industry standard hardware descriptive languages (Verilog, System Verilog, or VHDL)
 * Comfortable working in a Linux development environment and working with standard scripting languages (Python, bash)
 * Good verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively share information with technical and non-technical staff
 * Good collaboration skills, able to work in a team environment where engagement and participation are an expected part of successful job performance
 * Skilled in typical software engineering disciplines: testing, revision control (git), error-handling, readability, documentation, general code health, etc.
 * Desire to constantly improve and learn inside and outside of expertise

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE:

 * Expertise working with AMD Xilinx programmable logic devices (especially Zynq Ultrascale+ MPSoC).
 * Experience developing RTL in high level functional languages (especially Scala / SpinalHDL)
 * Expertise in developing HDL for one or more of the following applications:

 * RF waveform synthesis and processing
 * Modern closed-loop control systems (e.g. state space controllers)
 * Image processing
 * Matrix arithmetic accelerators

Familiarity with Embedded Linux OS distribution builds (nix, Yocto, or Buildroot)

Experience working with compiled languages for Linux and baremetal targets (especially Rust)

Experience leading small technical teams or projects

## Description

The duties and responsibilities outlined below include essential functions of the role. Depending on business needs, this role may perform a combination of some or all of the following duties. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

 * Collaborate with physicists and across electrical, software, and opto-mechanical engineering domains to deliver optimal embedded system solutions for quantum applications.
 * Develop testable, performant, and scalable RTL using SpinalHDL.
 * Support hands on tuning and troubleshooting in laboratory and test bench environments
 * Architect processing chains with supporting analytical models to ensure that critical design requirements are met.
 * Embrace best modern software engineering practices to ensure robustness and maintainability and facilitate collaboration. This includes leveraging revision control, CI pipelines, static analysis tools, and automated build pipelines.
 * Participate in design, code, and data reviews.