Bettina Heim

System Software Engineering Manager

Zurich, Switzerland

About

I am excited and honored to work with people around the world to build the next generation of Quantum Computing tools and processors. Pursuing my passion for high performance software, I am currently managing the CUDA Quantum Engineering team. Check out our GitHub repository to learn more about the CUDA Quantum platform for hybrid quantum-classical computing, built on top of QIR (LLVM subset): https://nvidia.github.io/cuda-quantum/

Experience

  • System Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
    Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

    I am very excited to take the next step of my career with the development of the CUDA Quantum platform. I am honored to lead a team with immense compiler and accelerator expertise, and I am looking forward to bringing the next generation of MLIR and LLVM/QIR tools to the quantum compiler space.

  • Microsoft (5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Principal Software Engineering Manager
      Mar 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

      More of the same, and now also working on defining and supporting QIR - an LLVM-based intermediate representation for quantum programs.

    • Senior Software Engineering Manager
      Jan 2020 - Mar 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

      I'm thrilled to manage the terrific group of people responsible for the development of the Q# language, compiler, and runtime.

    • Senior Software Development Engineer
      Sep 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

      More of the same, and very excited about it! Also, driving the Q# language design.