Software-focused Systems Engineer - 1018

The role

This person will translate stakeholder needs into clear, testable system and software requirements. They will guide software-intensive systems from concept through integration, operation, and validation.

What you will do

• Translate stakeholder needs into clear, testable system and software requirements with end-to-end traceability.
• Develop functional flows, block definition diagrams, behavioral models, system architectures, and Interface Control Documents.
• Allocate requirements and functions across software, hardware, users, and external systems.
• Assist troubleshooting by reproducing failures, analyzing logs and system behavior, isolating causes across subsystem boundaries, and recommending corrective actions.
• Perform change-impact analysis across requirements, architecture, interfaces, implementation, risks, and verification.
• Advise V&V teams on acceptance criteria, test coverage, failure scenarios, and expected system behavior.
• Lead or support FMEAs, define mitigations, assess residual risk, and ensure mitigations are implemented and verified.
• Support design, integration, technical reviews, defect investigations, and release-readiness decisions.
• Develop prototypes, simulations, test tools, or production software when needed to reduce technical risk or support delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior software developers and systems engineers.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree
• Minimum 8+ years of combined software engineering and systems engineering experience, with demonstrated responsibility in both disciplines
• Minimum 3+ years of experience developing requirements, system models, interfaces, and verification criteria
• Must be a U.S. Person: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or workers granted asylum or refugee status
• Must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless also a U.S. citizen

Nice to have

• Master's degree in systems engineering, software engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience troubleshooting complex integrated systems using logs, test evidence, software behavior, and structured root-cause analysis
• Working knowledge of software architecture, APIs, source code, configuration, and system integration
• Experience with SysML, model-based systems engineering, and system-modeling tools
• Experience supporting FMEAs and reliability analyses
• Software-development or prototyping experience
• Experience with automated testing, GitHub, CI/CD, Robot Framework, Cypress, or JFrog Artifactory

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology
• Flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match and student loan repayment benefit
• Equity opportunities
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays annually
• Paid parental leave
• Employee discount programs

Before you apply

• Applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test
• Due to contractual and U.S. Government national security requirements, U.S. Person status and nationality rules apply
• Some positions require U.S. government export authorization for candidates who are not U.S. persons; hiring depends on whether that authorization can be obtained
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis with no deadline

About the company

Quantinuum is a quantum computing company delivering a full stack platform for real-world deployment. It has more than 800 employees and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, with operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.