Quantum Software Developer - flaQship
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ↗
📍 Heilbronn, Germany 🇩🇪
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The »Digital Business« research group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO works on national and international research, development, and consulting projects to harness the potential of quantum computers for industry and societal use.
The Fraunhofer Lab for Quantum Computing Stuttgart-Heilbronn (flaQship) unites the expertise of the Fraunhofer Institute IAO and the Fraunhofer Institute IPA under a shared vision. We bring together researchers from physics, mathematics, computer science, communications, economics, and political science, as well as leading professors, to drive excellence in research, agile strategies, and cross-functional collaboration – thus shaping the future of quantum computing.
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated (Senior) Quantum Software Developer to join our Quantum Service Engineering research area – someone like you. At the rapidly growing innovation and AI hub in Heilbronn, you will work closely with quantum physicists, researchers, and engineers. Together, you will translate theoretical concepts into robust, scalable, and maintainable software systems and disseminate research results through accessible software tools.
Be part of change
- Core Software Development
- Lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of the flaQship toolkit
- Integrate the flaQship toolkit via standardized APIs into the national quantum computing full stack and enable workflow-integration with established toolkits and framework (e.g. MQT or Eclipse Qrisp)
- Coordinate software releases and ensure research outputs are packaged into well-documented, reusable tools
- Research Translation & Dissemination
- Collaborate with researchers and domain experts to translate scientific requirements into technical implementations
- Professionalize and optimize algorithms and software packages with respect to performance, scalability, and reliability
- Write clear, maintainable documentation and contribute to technical design reviews
- Agentic Workflows & Automation
- Evaluate, implement, and advance AI-assisted development workflows using generative and agentic tools
- Establish best practices for integrating LLM-based agents into research software pipelines
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive development and documentation tasks
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