Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Quantum Control (Rust)

NightDragon Acquisition Corp.; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Parental/adoption leave

Legal insurance

Home technology stipend

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Runtime Software team. You will implement real-time control system behaviours and abstractions for experiments, helping turn hardware into a scalable quantum computer while shaping the core Rust libraries and execution environment.

You will collaborate with scientists and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver fast, reproducible control abstractions and tools, accelerating the science core and supporting fault-tolerant computation in

Qualifications

• Expert in programming for real-time environments.
• Strong background in systems programming and low-level code.
• Experience with Rust and C/C++ is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication across disciplines and teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with scientists to understand their requirements.
• Interface with system orchestration, non-realtime control and compiler teams to integrate with wider software architecture.
• Implement drivers for various real-time devices.
• Produce tooling to enable rapid iteration by users of our codebase.
• Develop the execution environment for user programs on our systems.
• Continually improve APIs used by internal users.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

C/C++

Communication skills

Job description

IonQ in Oxford is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Runtime Software team. You will implement real-time control system behaviours and abstractions for experiments, helping turn hardware into a scalable quantum computer while shaping the core Rust libraries and execution environment.

You will collaborate with scientists and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver fast, reproducible control abstractions and tools, accelerating the science core and supporting fault-tolerant computation in