Senior Software Developer

WE ARE:  D-Wave (NYSE: QBTS) a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefitbusiness and society. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. D-Wave’s technology has been used by some of the world’s most advanced organizations including Mastercard, Deloitte, Davidson Technologies, ArcelorMittal, Siemens Healthineers, Unisys, NEC Corporation, Pattison Food Group Ltd., DENSO, Lockheed Martin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Southern California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.    Our company and its innovations have appeared in the pages of Time Magazine, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, INC Magazine and Wired. As of August 8, 2022, our company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as $QBTS. 

WHAT TO EXPECT:  D-Wave is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join our Algorithms, Performance, and Tools (APT) team and contribute to the continuous improvement of Ocean, our open-source software development kit for solving complex problems on our quantum computers and quantum-classical hybrid solvers. In this role you’ll be developing the software tools used to facilitate running and solving these problems, particularly focusing on maintaining and upgrading our Ocean SDK and QPU development tools. Previous experience with quantum computing and/or a research background would be highly beneficial. 

HERE'S WHAT MAKES THIS ROLE AWESOME:  

Challenge: You’ll be responsible for a core part of our software offering that forms the building block of future quantum applications.   Connection: Your open-source contributions will be seen and used by programmers and scientists around the world.  Impact: You and your team will lay the groundwork for the future of programming quantum computers.

What you’ll do:

• Write clean, well-documented and testable code for our Ocean software tools.
• Contribute to the open-source Ocean SDK, its sub-packages and work on QPU development tools.
• Research, design and conduct experiments to run on our QPU hardware.
• Support QPU research projects and add features to the QPU pipeline to improve our quantum computing offerings.
• Support internal research teams, D-Wave customers, and the quantum computing developer community by maintaining, testing and writing high quality code for open and closed source software.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, physics or mathematics, or equivalent experience, with several years of professional experience in software development.
• Excellent Python skills and an understanding of how programming languages function under the hood. C++ knowledge a plus.
• Familiarity and/or experience with quantum computing and/or quantum software development.
• A research mindset and an understanding of state-of-the-art research, including the ability to read and implement research papers and understand complex research ideas.
• Experience working on end-to-end software projects; from architecture to implementation and documentation.
• Comfortable with writing, documenting and using APIs.
• Experience working with open-source software; previous open-source contributions a plus.
• Familiarity with linear algebra, graph theory and combinatorial optimization.

A D-WAVER'S DNA:

• We look at the future and say “why not”; we see possibilities where others see problems or routines. We show the way ahead and are committed to achieving ambitious goals.
• We practice straight talk and listen generously to each other with empathy. We value different opinions and points of views. We ensure that we connect outside as well as inside to learn from others and inspire each other.
• We hold ourselves accountable for delivering results.
• We make decisions & take responsibility so that we can act & support each other.
• As leaders we motivate & engage our teams to undertake beyond what they originally thought possible, by developing our teams & creating the conditions for people to grow and empower themselves through enabling & coaching.