Senior Real-Time Systems Engineer (Rust) – Unlimited PTO

Clutch Canada; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. in the UK is seeking a senior Systems Software Engineer to join the Runtime Software team in Oxford.

You will work with experimental scientists to implement real‑time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require to run experiments and advance fault‑tolerant computation. You will help shape the core Rust libraries and execution environment that transform hardware into a quantum computer, supporting scalable, high‑precision operations and fast iteration in a

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in one or more mainstream languages.
• Experience with systems programming and real-time Linux/embedded envs.
• Interest in or experience with Rust and high‑quality code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists to understand requirements.
• Interface with system orchestration, non‑realtime control, and compiler teams.
• Interface with FPGA and electronics teams to shape architecture.
• Implement drivers for real‑time devices.
• Produce tooling to enable rapid iteration.
• Develop the execution environment for user programs.
• Continuously evaluating APIs to improve them for internal users.

Skills

Systems programming

Real-time / low-latency

Rust interest

Communication skills

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Job description

IonQ, Inc. in the UK is seeking a senior Systems Software Engineer to join the Runtime Software team in Oxford.

You will work with experimental scientists to implement real‑time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require to run experiments and advance fault‑tolerant computation. You will help shape the core Rust libraries and execution environment that transform hardware into a quantum computer, supporting scalable, high‑precision operations and fast iteration in a