Join The Company Building Quantum Networks

Aliro, The Quantum Networking Company®, offers its AliroNet® software stack to run entanglement-based quantum networks for applications such as Quantum Secure Communications (QSC), secure interconnect of clouds and data centers, secure networking of quantum computers, and secure networking of distributed quantum sensors. AliroNet is also used to implement comprehensive Advanced Secure Networks which include Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).  AliroNet users include financial services companies, government agencies (including DoD and IC), utility companies, telecommunications providers, and other enterprises who have a need for the highest security communication networks.  Aliro is disrupting the secure communications market with its revolutionary “physics-based” approach.  Join us for this historic journey!

Aliro builds software for entanglement-based quantum networks. Our products support quantum networks being developed by customers at aerospace companies, national labs, academic institutions, and telecommunications providers.

We are hiring a Security Program Lead to own and operate the company's security program. This is a foundational hire and the first dedicated security role at Aliro.

You will not be starting from zero. By the time you join, our fractional CISO will have deployed the GRC platform, drafted core security policies, initiated the asset inventory and security program baseline, established the compliance roadmap, and set the SOC 2 audit timeline. Your job is to take ownership of that foundation and run the program day-to-day: maintaining evidence, managing vendors, responding to customers, and driving the program forward.

You will work alongside the fractional CISO, who provides strategic direction, certification architecture, and customer-facing security leadership. You will report to the CTO.

This role is designed to grow. The initial focus is operationalizing the security program, achieving SOC 2, and supporting enterprise sales. As the company scales and certification workloads increase, this role expands with ownership of the full compliance and certification portfolio.

What You'll Own

Security governance and compliance. Own SOC 2 evidence collection, policy maintenance, risk register updates, and audit coordination. Manage relationships with external auditors, pen test firms, and assessment organizations. Maintain security documentation as living, versioned artifacts — not shelf-ware.

Customer security support. Respond to enterprise security questionnaires (SIG, CAIQ, custom formats). Draft and maintain customer-facing security artifacts: security overview, product architecture briefs, pre-filled questionnaire responses. Be the first responder when a prospect's security team has questions.

Secure development support. Coordinate with the engineering team on CI/CD security tooling (SAST, SCA, secrets detection), SBOM management, vulnerability tracking, and pen test remediation. You don't need to write the code, but you need to understand the pipeline and ensure security gates are operating.

Vendor and tool management. Manage and optimize the GRC platform (Vanta), security scanning tools, and questionnaire automation tooling. Own the operational relationship with third-party security vendors.

Certification preparation (growth area). As the program matures, take increasing ownership of certification tracks — potentially including CMMC, FedRAMP, or FIPS 140-3 — depending on customer and market requirements.

What We're Looking For

2–5 years of hands-on experience in security, GRC, or compliance. Experience with SOC 2 audit preparation is strongly preferred. You've managed vendor relationships with auditors or assessment firms. What matters most is that you know what good security operations look like and can build the habits that sustain them.

Familiarity with secure development practices. You understand CI/CD pipelines, dependency management, SBOM generation, and vulnerability management at a conceptual level. You don't need to be a software engineer, but you need to have productive conversations with one.

Experience responding to customer security questionnaires. SIG, CAIQ, or proprietary formats. You know how to translate internal controls into customer-facing language that satisfies a procurement security review.

Strong written communication. Policies, procedures, security briefs, questionnaire responses, audit documentation — this role produces a lot of written artifacts. They need to be clear, precise, and professional.

Comfort with ambiguity. You're joining a startup where the security program is newly established. There is no predecessor handing you a binder. Processes are still being built. You need to be the kind of person who finds that energizing, not paralyzing.

Nice to Have

• Experience with federal compliance frameworks: FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53.
• Exposure to hardware security certifications (FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria) or understanding of cryptographic module validation processes.
• Familiarity with GRC platforms (Vanta, Drata, Secureframe) and questionnaire automation tools (Conveyor, SafeBase).
• Relevant certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, or Security+. These are useful but not required. We care more about what you've done than what you've passed.
• Interest in quantum networking, post-quantum cryptography, or QKD technologies. You don't need to be an expert — the engineering team will teach you the physics. But genuine curiosity about the space matters.

Why This Role

You would be building the security function at a company that is defining the future of quantum-safe networking. The products you help secure will protect communications for defense, finance, and critical infrastructure. The certifications you help achieve will unlock markets that no other quantum networking company has reached yet.

This is not a maintenance role. There is nothing to maintain yet. You are building it.

Details

• Location: Remote-first, with occasional on-site collaboration in the Boston area
• Reports to: CTO (with strategic direction from fractional CISO)
• Equity: Yes

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Aliro is a growing startup that builds software to simulate, operate, and orchestrate real-world entanglement-based networks. Aliro’s software actively supports the development of quantum networks at aerospace companies, national labs, universities, telecommunications providers, and banks.

Aliro is hiring a remote or hybrid (Boston area) software engineer who is excited to innovate at the cutting edge of quantum information science and technology. At Aliro, you will work alongside quantum physicists and product leads to provide professional contracting services to Aliro’s customers, and to develop Aliro Simulator, the simulation platform for the quantum internet.

Responsibilities

• Build software tools for quantum network simulation, emulation, and optimization.
• Develop the Aliro Simulator product including, UIs, workflows, APIs, docs/demos, and algorithms.
• Maintain a scalable simulation platform that accurately models quantum networks at low cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, or math.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software engineering.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in remote and virtual settings.
• Ability to work across domains and translate product requirements into production-ready software.
• US citizenship or permanent resident status with ability to work in eastern standard time.

Preferred Background

• Experience with web development including Typescript, React, Python, and FastAPI or Django.
• Experience with package management (uv), containerization (Docker), and CI/CD (Github actions).
• Experience delivering fullstack applications on a cloud platform (GCP preferred).
• Experience building applications using Kubernetes and Helm.
• Experience designing intuitive user interfaces, scalable REST APIs, and expressive data schemas.
• Experience with high-performance computing, GPU computing, or performance optimization.
• Experience with gRPC and Proto, and API design for networked and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with scientific computing technologies in Python with numpy, scipy, pandas, etc.
• Familiarity with cloud computing infrastructure and technologies like Terraform/OpenTofu
• Familiarity with pipelines and frameworks for scalable data processing, analysis, and visualization.
• Familiarity with multi-agent modeling and discrete event simulation frameworks such as simpy.
• Familiarity with quantum computing or networking architectures, protocols, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with quantum software packages such as Qiskit, Cirq, SeQUeNCe, PennyLane, etc.

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Aliro is a growing startup that builds software to simulate, emulate, and operate real-world applications of entanglement-based networks. Aliro’s software actively supports quantum networks being developed by our customers at aerospace companies, national labs, academic institutions, and telecommunications providers.

Aliro is hiring a remote or hybrid (Boston area) research scientist who is excited to innovate at the cutting edge of quantum information science and technology.  At Aliro, you will work alongside software engineers, quantum physicists, and business leads to develop the Aliro Simulator software product, provide professional simulation services to Aliro’s customers, and conduct quantum networking research for publication or patent.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers to address their needs in quantum network research and design.
• Develop and maintain the Aliro Simulator software, APIs, workflows, documentation, and demos.
• Implement scalable simulations that accurately model quantum hardware and protocols.
• Teach webinars, write technical papers/blog posts, and present research at conferences.

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in science, technology, engineering, or math.
• Published research in the field of quantum information science and technology.
• Experience with software engineering, computational research, or scientific computing.
• US citizenship or permanent resident status with ability to work in eastern standard time.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in remote and virtual settings.

Preferred background

• Familiarity with quantum computing or networking architectures, protocols, and algorithms.
• Familiarity with quantum software packages such as Qiskit, Cirq, SeQUeNCe, PennyLane, etc.
• Experience with GPU computing, cloud computing, or high-performance computing.
• Expertise in one or more of the following quantum networking domains of knowledge:
  • Entanglement-based Networking: entanglement generation, transduction, distribution, purification, routing, error correction/mitigation, timing synchronization, orchestration, etc.
  • Quantum Secure Communications: quantum position verification, quantum cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, quantum authentication, quantum key distribution, etc.
  • Quantum Computing: error correction and mitigation, readout and control, qubit platform engineering, measurement-based quantum computing, compilation and scheduling, etc.
  • Quantum Physics: open-quantum systems, quantum information theory, AMO physics, physical modeling, variational quantum algorithms, quantum simulation and emulation, etc.
  • Architectures and Applications: heterogeneous quantum networks, satellite/free-space  or fiber optic networks, distributed quantum computing, distributed quantum sensing, etc.
    
    

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Aliro is seeking a Network Security Architect to help shape our solutions for Quantum Secure Communications (“QSC”). The ideal candidate has deep experience with network security products and services, and is very familiar with how these products are deployed and used by Enterprises, Government entities, and Service Providers. This is a great opportunity for a seasoned networking pro who’s excited by the prospect of defining and building the next generation of secure networks.

Responsibilities

• User Research - Liaise with key stakeholders inside DoD, Intelligence Community organizations, Network Service Providers, and commercial clients in financial services and other security-conscious industries; conduct user interviews and develop user stories.
• Roadmap Collaboration - Act as the customer voice in collaboration with our CPO, Engineering leadership and Field leaders to develop a roadmap tuned to customer needs.
• Product Strategy - work with the team ​​to strategize the best integration point for QSC with specific customers and their existing classical network stack.
• Product Definition - Help define and communicate our product offerings to market stakeholders, prospects and customers with emphasis on security applications and protocols.
• User Experience - Work with our product design resources to develop great user experiences.  Interface with customers to pilot our solution usability and gather feedback for further iteration.
• Competitive Research - Perform ongoing competitive analysis to ensure Aliro is ahead and differentiated in the secure quantum networking market. 
• Ecosystem Development - Identify strategic partner targets; collaborate with the senior leadership team to establish and nurture these partnerships. 
• Proposal Assistance - As a pro in explaining our solution value and function, assist in drafting proposals and grant applications.

Qualifications

• 10+ years product development/technical experience in network security
• Proven track record architecting/designing/shipping complex security products
• Deep experience with current best practices for enterprise and government cybersecurity and cryptographic protocols
• Ability to assess the security proofs, standards docs, and side-channel attack surfaces of QSC protocols and hardware. Use these assessments to help shape our product and supplier strategy
• Experience with quantum technologies a plus
• Experience with quantum networking protocols a plus (examples BBM92, BB84, E91)
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience writing grant proposals a plus
  
  

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Aliro is developing foundational technologies in Quantum Networking and Communications. As a senior member of our team, you will be contributing to this foundation by helping us develop a quantum network stack. We are looking for someone who is motivated and excited by the opportunity to engage in a transformative field of research and engineering. 

We are seeking a Senior level C++ software developer to join our growing team. 

You will work with our Network Stack team designing new software systems and components for Quantum Networking. 

What you’ll do

• Leverage your very strong software engineering and objected oriented design skills and experience to help us develop a quantum networking stack. 
• Be an integral part of defining the next generation of quantum infrastructure and technology as you build the software needed to make quantum networks a reality.

Required background

• 8+ years of professional experience writing robust, enterprise-quality C++ software on Linux-based systems. 
• Very strong objected oriented design background.
• Experience designing and building new software subsystems (vs modifying or fixing existing ones).
• Experience designing and building software for testability and maintainability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Must play well with others.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
• Comfortable working in a new field and designing software from scratch.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM development methodologies.

Desired background

• Quantum computing experience or training, either professionally or as a passion.
• Experience working at an early-stage startup is highly desired.
• Experience with Python and Pytest.
• Experience with GoogleTest and gMock.
• Experience with CMake

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Aliro is developing foundational technologies in Quantum Networking and Communications. As a senior member of our team, you will be contributing to this foundation by helping us develop a quantum network stack. We are looking for someone who is motivated and excited by the opportunity to engage in a transformative field of research and engineering. 

We are seeking a Senior level C++ software developer to join our growing team. 

You will work with our Network Stack team designing new software systems and components for Quantum Networking at an embedded, device level.. 

What you’ll do

• Leverage your very strong software engineering and objected oriented design skills and experience to help us develop a quantum networking stack. 
• Be an integral part of defining the next generation of quantum infrastructure and technology as you build the software needed to make quantum networks a reality.

Required background

• 8+ years of professional experience writing robust, enterprise-quality C++ software on Linux-based systems. 
• Very strong objected oriented design background.
• Experience writing low-level OS drivers, experience in the Linux kernel, systems level coding experience, RTOS, microcontrollers, etc.
• Experience designing and building new software subsystems (vs modifying or fixing existing ones).
• Experience designing and building software for testability and maintainability.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Must play well with others.
• Excellent debugging skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.
• Comfortable working in a new field and designing software from scratch.
• Good understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Experience with Agile/SCRUM development methodologies.

Desired background

• Experience with digital signal processing.
• Quantum computing experience or training, either professionally or as a passion.
• Experience working at an early-stage startup is highly desired.
• Experience with Python and Pytest.
• Experience with GoogleTest and gMock.
• Experience with CMake