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title: 'Senior Accountant at Atom Computing'
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# Senior Accountant at Atom Computing

- **Company:** Atom Computing
- **Location:** Boulder, CO
- **Compensation:** $110k–$140k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/atomcomputing/98cb6b94-2e0e-4f96-9b23-0dc170c8a50a

## Job description

At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. Atom Computing is seeking a Senior Accountant to support the company’s accounting operations and ensure the accuracy and integrity of its financial reporting. Reporting directly to the Controller, you will be responsible for executing key accounting activities, maintaining effective internal controls, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulatory requirements, and applying your knowledge of accounting systems and transactions to support business objectives. This role requires working onsite at our Boulder office five days per week.

Job Responsibilities

- Manage core accounting activities, including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, fixed assets, project accounting, revenue recognition, and cash/credit card reconciliation
- Execute the month-end close process, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Maintain accurate financial records and ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and company accounting policies.
- Develop and improve accounting processes, internal controls, and financial reporting systems.
- Partner with Finance and cross-functional teams to support business decisions and establish scalable accounting practices.
- Help develop the accounting processes needed to support manufacturing operations, including inventory and cost accounting.
- Support external audits and regulatory reporting requirements.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including corporate accounting experience.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, accrual accounting, and financial reporting requirements.
- Experience independently managing month-end close activities.
- Experience developing or improving accounting processes, systems, and internal controls.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to understand operational needs and translate them into effective financial processes.
- Proficiency with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation.
- Experience building accounting processes or financial infrastructure within a manufacturing organization.
- Experience in a high-growth or multi-location business.
- Public accounting experience.
- Experience with NetSuite.
- International accounting experience.
- Public company experience.

Atom Computing provides a wide variety of perks and benefits, including fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents. Additional benefits include unlimited paid time off, 401(k) company matching, short- and long-term disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, dependent care benefits, and life insurance. We also offer drinks, snacks, and catered team lunches in our offices. The base salary range for this position is $110,000–$140,000, commensurate with experience. In addition to salary, we offer an annual bonus and equity in the company.

## About Atom Computing

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atom Computing builds large-scale, gate-based quantum computers using arrays of optically-trapped neutral atoms to help companies and researchers achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded; $60M Series B closed January 2022, ~$191.2M total funding across 12 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, United States
- **Founded**: January 2018
- **Founders**: Ben Bloom (Founder & CTO), Jonathan King (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist); Rob Hays serves as CEO & President

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantum computing / quantum hardware and software
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprise researchers, commercial quantum algorithm developers, national labs, and scientific institutions seeking on-premises quantum systems
- **Mission or purpose**: Building large-scale quantum computers to enable breakthrough discoveries and tackle increasingly challenging applications, with a clear path to fault tolerance.

## Products & Services
- **[AC1000 — Quantum Computing Platform]**: A universal, gate-based quantum computer commercially available for on-premises deployment. Features 1,200+ physical qubits, all-to-all qubit connectivity, better-than-threshold fidelities, mid-circuit measurement with qubit reuse/reset, and real-time conditional branching — designed to support building logical qubits.
- **[Partner Program]**: Early-access collaboration program for software and application development partners to explore quantum algorithms, provide feedback, and work alongside Atom Computing's technical team on real-world applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of ~$191.2M across 12 rounds (as of 2026); latest reported annual revenue ~$5.3M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Third Point Ventures (led Series B), Innovation Endeavors, Prelude Ventures, National Science Foundation (grants)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew ~63.6% YoY to 98 employees (2026), with +2.4% monthly growth
  - 31 active job postings; job postings up +520% year-over-year and +93.8% quarter-over-quarter
  - Expanded to offices in Berkeley, Boulder, and Austin; workforce distributed across United States and Denmark
  - 24 scholarly works with ~9,800+ citations; field-weighted citation impact of 3.7; 67% open access
  - Published industry-leading coherence times (>40s) on nuclear spin qubits in Nature Communications

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive scalability**: Neutral-atom qubits are held microns apart by focused lasers, have no electrical charge, and can be tightly packed into arrays scaling to thousands or millions of qubits without a substantial increase in system footprint
- **Long coherence**: Use of alkaline-earth metal atoms with closed outer electron shells delivers industry-leading coherence times and insensitivity to environmental noise
- **Reduced complexity**: All qubit control is mediated by light through free space rather than individual electrical cables per qubit — a simpler path to scale
- **High fidelity**: Neutral atoms are intrinsically identical and present no fundamental physics obstacles to reaching fault-tolerant thresholds
- **Advanced technical capabilities**: First-mover positioning with mid-circuit measurement, qubit reuse/reset, and real-time conditional branching on a 1,200+ qubit commercial system

## Strategic Focus
- Advancing toward fault-tolerant quantum computing and logical qubits
- Scaling neutral-atom arrays to thousands and millions of qubits
- Expanding commercial deployment of the AC1000 platform with enterprise and research partners
- Growing the partner ecosystem for software and application development
- Scaling the engineering and technical team (significant increase in software, quantum engineering, and opto-mechanical postings)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative and curiosity-driven — "explore the unconventional, experiment, and let curiosity be your guide"; team includes scientists, hardware/software engineers, and business professionals
- **Work environment**: Flexible working arrangements, catered in-office lunches, team gatherings, and a "come as you are" atmosphere
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, life insurance, 401k matching, and unlimited paid time off
- **Locations**: Offices in attractive tech hubs — Berkeley, CA; Boulder, CO; and Austin, TX
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical ownership across quantum engineering, control systems, and software; talent recruited from Rigetti Computing, Quantinuum, National Instruments, NIST, and top universities (Stanford, University of Colorado Boulder); alumni exit to Google, AWS, and U.C. Berkeley

## Sources
1. [atom-computing.com — Careers](https://atom-computing.com/careers/)
2. [atom-computing.com — About Us](https://atom-computing.com/about-us/)
3. [atom-computing.com — Quantum Computing Technology](https://atom-computing.com/quantum-computing-technology/)
4. [linkedin.com — Atom Computing Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/atom-computing)
5. [cbinsights.com — Atom Computing Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/atom-computing)

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