Senior Technical Product Manager SDK and User Engagement

Summary

QuEra Computing is seeking aSenior Technical Product Manager SDK and User Engagementto own the product strategy delivery and adoption of the developer tooling that researchers and developers use to run highimpactexperiments and applications on QuErasneutralatom quantum computers. Youll operate at the intersection ofquantum R&D scientific software engineering and an external developer community translating capabilities acrossquantumclassical hybrid workflows circuitlevel programming qubit/atom shuttling and pulselevel controlinto an SDK that is coherent usable and trusted.

This is a foundational product role in a fast-growing area. Youll drive the end-to-end developer journey: from timetofirstexperiment and documentation quality to stable APIs and predictable release processes to community engagement and open-source governance. Working closely with R&D and engineering teams youll turn emerging research results (including advances inneutralatom platforms and quantum error correction) into concrete product requirements representative examples and developer-ready interfacesbalancing rapid innovation with robustness reliability and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Own the SDK product vision and roadmap
  • Define and communicate the product vision positioning and roadmap for QuEras SDK and developer-facing software stack.
  • Align priorities across company strategy hardware/service constraints internal stakeholders and external developer needs.
• Translate science and R&D into software requirements
  • Convert quantum concepts system capabilities and new R&D outcomes into actionable product specifications (PRDs) Request for Comments (RFCs) and well-scoped deliverables.
  • Identify representative use cases minimal reproducible examples and benchmarking targets to validate requirements and guide implementation.
• Collect structured user feedback and drive prioritization
  • Collect structured feedback from customers and users onusability UI workflows recurring pain points and operational friction.
  • Synthesize insights into roadmap updates and requirements. Partner with software teams to ensure feedback isactionable prioritized and reflectedin backlogs and release plans.
• Drive developer experience and steward an open-source community
  • Partner with software engineers and scientists to improve usability across the SDK: APIs workflows error messages onboarding tutorials and reference examples.
  • Establish open-source triage and governance practices: issue taxonomy labeling prioritization contribution guidelines and community processes.
• Ensure quality reliability and operational readiness
  • Support QA integration readiness and operational considerations so SDK releases work reliably with hardware services (cloud and/or managed environments).
  • Drive versioning deprecation policy change logs migration guides and release communications to maintain trust with the community.
  • Help balance early-stage innovation with stabilitysetting expectations clearly when features are experimental vs. production-ready.

Qualifications

• M.S. in Computer Science Physics or a related field with5 yearsof experience in technical product management developer tools scientific software HPC or adjacent domains.
• Proven ability to work deeply with engineering and research teamscomfortable operating in ambiguity and making sound trade-offs across scope schedule and technical risk.
• Strong understanding or hands-on experience in modern software engineering practices (API design backwards compatibility testing CI/CD fundamentals documentation and lifecycle discipline).
• Ability to learn new quantum algorithms and translate them into clear requirements and minimal examples.
• Working knowledge of compiler concepts (e.g. intermediate representations compiler transforms optimization strategies) and a clear understanding ofcompile-time vs. runtimetrade-offs.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills; strong at reframing XY problems into clear actionable requirements.
• Proficiency with product management tools and agile execution (e.g. GitHub and Jira); demonstrated cross-functional delivery and project/program leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in quantum computing quantum information computer science or engineering (or related area) with demonstrated exposure to software development cycles (especially SDKs compilers or scientific tooling).
• 35 yearsof hands-on technical development or research experience in scientific software compilers infrastructure or tooling.
• Experience engaging and growing an open-source community (triage contributor workflows governance and public roadmap practices).
• Demonstrated systems/low-level programming experience ( C) and/or compiler engineering experience (including contributions to widely used open-source compilers or developer toolchains).
• Strong track record of translating emerging research into pragmatic product requirements and developer-ready deliverables.
• Proven technical communication through public artifacts (e.g. blog posts tutorials documentation sets workshops talks or example repositories).

QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race religion color national origin gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.