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Senior Compiler Engineer

Cambridge, UK | Full-time | Permanent | Hybrid 

Salary: £70,000 to £90,000, DOE <span…

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Riverlane
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🇩🇪 Cambridge
Publiée le
29 September 2026
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13 November 2026

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<p><span data-contrast="auto">Cambridge, UK | Full-time | Permanent | Hybrid</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Salary: £70,000 to £90,000, DOE&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="auto">We will also consider part-time applications for this role. Please&nbsp;indicate&nbsp;your preferred working schedule in your cover letter.</span></em><em><span data-contrast="auto"> </span></em><em><span data-contrast="auto"> </span></em><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We&nbsp;are able to&nbsp;consider&nbsp;a range of levels of&nbsp;experience, and&nbsp;are therefore advertising this role at&nbsp;different levels&nbsp;of seniority.  Please apply to the role you feel best suits your skills and experience. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="auto">Everyone is welcome&nbsp;at&nbsp;Riverlane. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from eligible and suitably qualified candidates regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity/paternity. </span></em><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><em><span data-contrast="auto">Studies have shown that women tend to apply to jobs if they meet all or almost&nbsp;all of&nbsp;the requirements&nbsp;whereas&nbsp;men apply even if they meet only some of the requirements. If that sounds like you then please apply – we are happy to review your application and let you know if we think you might be a good fit. </span></em><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About us</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="none">Riverlane’s mission is to master quantum error correction (QEC) and unlock a new age of human progress. From advances in material and climate science, to complex chemistry simulation for new drug design, quantum computers will help humanity solve some of its most important challenges. But without QEC, the industry’s defining technical challenge, such breakthroughs can never be achieved. Riverlane is the world leader in QEC technology. QEC is a complex problem that requires a range of skills, talent and passion.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span class="TextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8">Having raised more than $125M in funding to date to accelerate our&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8">cutting-edge</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8">&nbsp;R&amp;D in quantum error correction (QEC), Riverlane partners with many of the world’s leading quantum hardware providers and government agencies to make fault-tolerant quantum computing a reality.&nbsp;</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8">We’re</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW243923852 BCX8">&nbsp;making remarkable progress and growing fast. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW243923852 BCX8" data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">About the role</span></strong><strong><span data-contrast="none">&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Our Software team’s mission is to enable anyone to be able to write and run a fault tolerant program on a quantum computer. The compiler is a critical part of this toolchain. This role is a fantastic opportunity to help us build and ship this toolchain for use by our hardware partners.&nbsp;The Senior role involves owning and leading parts of the software stack.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">You could have a background in computer science,&nbsp;maths&nbsp;or&nbsp;physics. You might have experience in building classical compilers, or&nbsp;in designing&nbsp;fault tolerant logic representations.&nbsp;You&nbsp;will&nbsp;bring your background,&nbsp;experience&nbsp;and passion for learning new things to build&nbsp;Riverlane’s&nbsp;software stack. The stack encodes&nbsp;Riverlane’s&nbsp;novel QEC codes and real-time decoder interfaces into a greenfield, modern&nbsp;LLVM MLIR-based compiler. You will help&nbsp;Riverlane&nbsp;build the critical compilation and runtime systems needed for&nbsp;large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">Riverlane’s&nbsp;mission is exciting, but complex.  It requires teams with a wide range of skills and perspectives, that communicate well and collaborate effectively to achieve truly innovative solutions.&nbsp;You will thrive in an environment where knowledge-sharing and continuous learning are the norm.  We are moving fast in a brand-new market, where requirements change as the technology evolves, so&nbsp;the ability to adapt&nbsp;is important.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What you will do&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="26" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design and build system tools such as compilers, emulators,&nbsp;profilers&nbsp;and debuggers </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
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<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design and implement correct, maintainable compiler optimizations, transformations, and analyses across multiple IR levels.</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Own a substantial part of&nbsp;the software stack for error-corrected quantum computing&nbsp;systems  </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Mentor, guide and lead&nbsp;engineers in the team</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="27" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Lead collaboration with other engineering teams to integrate&nbsp;their software and hardware artifacts with the compiler</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="28" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Work with scientists and engineers to implement new error correcting codes, and runtimes&nbsp;for&nbsp;new decoders </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
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<p><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What we need&nbsp;</span></strong></p>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="29" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Curiosity to learn new things </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="30" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience of working collaboratively, with a diverse range of people </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="31" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Good communication&nbsp;skills, both written and verbal </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="31" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Broad knowledge of the whole software and hardware stack: compilers, operating systems, computer architectures </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="32" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience in compilers (LLVM MLIR or&nbsp;others),&nbsp;in particular&nbsp;experience&nbsp;in middle- and back-end&nbsp;areas&nbsp;such as&nbsp;IR&nbsp;design, optimization passes,&nbsp;instruction&nbsp;selection, etc.&nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="33" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Experience of shipping software to users  </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="33" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Proficiency&nbsp;in Python;&nbsp;proficiency&nbsp;in C++ or Rust </span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}">&nbsp;</span></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="34" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;multilevel&quot;}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Interest in working in the quantum open-source&nbsp;ecosystem</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">What can you expect from us</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p>
<ul>
<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="22" data-list-defn-props="{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;469777815