Senior Software Engineering Manager

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

Lead and mentor a cross-functional software engineering team spanning scientific tooling, analytics infrastructure, and fabrication-support systems.

Create stronger operational rigor around prioritization, execution, accountability, and project delivery.

Provide coaching, growth support, feedback, and career development for engineers across varying levels of seniority.

Help establish healthy engineering culture, team norms, and stronger collaboration practices.

Serve as a day-to-day thought partner to the VP of Software Engineering while helping create additional leadership bandwidth across the organization.

Participate in hiring and team scaling efforts as the organization grows.

Technical & Engineering Leadership

Partner closely with engineers to drive execution across scientific computing, fabrication tooling, analytics systems, and workflow automation.

Support development of internal tooling and data systems that connect design, fabrication, and device performance workflows.

Help modernize and operationalize internal tooling that has historically evolved organically through research and prototyping efforts.

Drive better long-term ownership, maintainability, and lifecycle planning for internally developed systems and infrastructure.

Help evolve engineering infrastructure and validation frameworks that improve scalability, reproducibility, and operational reliability across hardware development environments.

Support technical decision-making, architecture discussions, and engineering prioritization while remaining hands-on enough to engage credibly with the team.

Contribute technically when appropriate, particularly around debugging, architecture reviews, infrastructure improvements, or smaller engineering initiatives.

Cross-functional Collaboration

Work closely with quantum engineers, physicists, fabrication engineers, and hardware teams to understand operational pain points and evolving workflow requirements.

Help balance competing stakeholder requests while improving prioritization discipline and long-term planning.

Partner with fabrication teams as Rigetti continues evolving manufacturing and foundry operations across Berkeley and Fremont.

Support systems that connect experimental data, fabrication workflows, characterization tooling, and engineering analytics into scalable internal platforms.

Operational & Strategic Impact

Help transition the team from highly reactive support work toward more proactive engineering planning and scalable systems development.

Improve processes around technical debt management, prototype ownership, platform sustainability, and operational support models.

Create better visibility into engineering priorities, roadmap tradeoffs, and team capacity.

Support ongoing evolution of Rigetti’s scientific and engineering software ecosystem as the company scales hardware development efforts.

Oversee the development, and architecture of data platforms and modeling tools that combine design files, fabrication process data, and device performance metrics.

Empower the development and support for tools for design rule checking (DRC), layout-vs-schematic (LVS) checks, and process-aware design verification for quantum devices.