Staff Software Engineer - Quantum System Orchestration

Quantum Computing Jobs UK; Oxford; Híbrido; GBP 110.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

IonQ stock options

Annual performance bonus

Generous annual leave

Flexible hybrid working

Private medical and dental insurance

Descripción de la vacante

IonQ in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the System Orchestration team within System Software at Oxford Ionics. This hands-on role focuses on building and operating the control plane that calibrates and schedules quantum workloads across our fleet, ensuring continuous, reliable operation of the machines.

You will work closely with runtime and systems teams, contribute to the codebase, and help advance automation so that the fleet runs without constant human

Formación

• Deep systems engineering experience with services where data loss is unacceptable.
• Hands-on contribute-in-code role in a fast-moving, technical team.
• Experience in Rust or willingness to work in a Rust codebase with async programming.

Responsabilidades

• Own cross-service durability and recovery contracts across the control plane.
• Provide reliable readiness assessment for machines used by the control plane.
• Eliminate whole classes of failure across the fleet, not just incidents.
• Define service boundaries, write them down, and migrate code accordingly.
• Demonstrate design correctness with verifiable evidence over debate.
• Build tooling and test infrastructure to accelerate the team.
• Evolve deployment and operations as the fleet expands.
• Elevate the quality of code through reviews and collaboration.

Conocimientos

Rust

Async programming

Stateful services

gRPC

REST

PostgreSQL

Determinism

Scheduling/workflow tooling

Debugging complex systems

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Descripción del empleo

IonQ in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the System Orchestration team within System Software at Oxford Ionics. This hands-on role focuses on building and operating the control plane that calibrates and schedules quantum workloads across our fleet, ensuring continuous, reliable operation of the machines.

You will work closely with runtime and systems teams, contribute to the codebase, and help advance automation so that the fleet runs without constant human