Staff Software Engineer - Quantum Hardware Controls

Entangled Future; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford, United Kingdom, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Non-Realtime Controllers team. This hands-on role focuses on writing and improving the control software that interfaces with quantum hardware in lab environments.

You will tackle challenging hardware integrations, improve shared frameworks, build tooling and testing infrastructure, and help evolve deployment and observability of the fleet.

Responsibilities

• Take on our most demanding device integrations, and do the deep diagnosis of problems that only appear against real hardware in a live lab.
• Remove whole classes of failure across the fleet, rather than instances of them.
• Improve the shared framework yourself, and bring the existing controllers along with each change.
• Build the tooling, simulators and test infrastructure that let the whole team move faster.
• Evolve how our services are deployed and operated as the fleet grows, and make the fleet observable enough that problems are found early.
• Raise the bar of everyone around you through the code you write and the reviews you give.

Job description

IonQ in Oxford, United Kingdom, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for our Non-Realtime Controllers team. This hands-on role focuses on writing and improving the control software that interfaces with quantum hardware in lab environments.

You will tackle challenging hardware integrations, improve shared frameworks, build tooling and testing infrastructure, and help evolve deployment and observability of the fleet.