Senior Applied AI Engineer

QuEra is standing up a new AI Engineering team to help every group in the company put AI to work. We are hiring senior founding engineers to set its bar. In this role, you will turn the highest-value ideas from our company-wide AI workshop into real, deployable tools, and build LLM- and agent-powered software that makes our slow, expensive, and expertise-gated steps faster, cheaper, and more accessible — from machine build and bringup to everyday engineering.

This senior, high-autonomy role is designed specifically for someone at the top of their craft. You will own projects end to end, set the technical patterns the team builds on, and raise the bar for how AI software is built across QuEra. You bring deep, modern AI application-engineering expertise that complements our in-house physics, controls, and hardware strength — and you help us build that talent quickly. A background in quantum computing is not required.

• →You ship useful tools into production quickly, and teams actually adopt them.
• →The components you build get reused by others, rather than becoming one-offs.
• →Your work is well-documented, tested, and dependable.
• →You operate independently and reliably move projects to done — or to a clean stop.

 The approximate base salary range for this position is $175,000 - $210,000.

We consistently monitor external market data and update base salary ranges accordingly.  We determine base compensation decisions on several factors, including as geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and/or experience.  In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires.

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.

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