Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

Entangled Future; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Oxford, UK, is seeking a Staff Senior Systems Software Engineer to join our Runtime Software team. You will work with experimental scientists to implement real-time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require, enabling compute and fault tolerant operation as we move toward utility-scale quantum computers.

You will help shape core Rust libraries and the execution environment that turns hardware into a quantum computer, supporting the development of advanced quantum

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages.
• Experience with systems programming and real-time software.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with scientists to understand their requirements.
• Interfacing with system orchestration, non-realtime control and compiler teams to ensure our work integrates with the wider software architecture.
• Interfacing with FPGA and electronics teams to shape the overall system architecture.
• Implementing drivers for various real-time devices.
• Producing tooling to enable users of our code to iterate rapidly and fearlessly.
• Developing the execution environment for the user programs which run on our systems.
• Continually evaluating the shape of our APIs and improving them for our internal users.

Skills

Programming languages

Systems programming

Tools

Real-time systems

Job description

Staff Software Engineer, Runtime at IonQ, Oxford, England, United Kingdom (remote). A lead-level full time position in the Compute - Engineering team, listed under software engineering.

The Role

We are looking for a senior Systems Software Engineer to join our Runtime Software team at Oxford Ionics / IonQ. In this role, you will be responsible for working directly with the experimental scientists to implement the real-time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require for their experiments, contributing to the team’s mission of enabling our science teams to experiment and improve the primitive operations which allow compute, and building towards fault tolerant computation.

You’ll play an important part in shaping the core, Rust, libraries and the execution environment which take our system from a collection of hardware to a quantum computer, and support our work in building the world’s most advanced quantum systems.

Responsibilities

In this position, you will work on developing abstractions over real-time control hardware, supporting the effective delivery of a control system capable of repeatedly and reproducibly driving our ions with nano-second level precision, with abstractions which are conducive to both fast iteration and system scaling.

You’ll have the opportunity to accelerate the science core to the development of our systems, and contribute to the core execution model of our quantum computers, contributing directly to the success of building utility-scale quantum computers.

Requirements

To be successful, you will need strong programming skills in a systems programming language, experience with software system design, and a desire to produce high quality code appropriate to a real-time environment. We’re looking for someone who can quickly iterate on low-level code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, environment and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team.

• Have strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages
• Have experience with a systems programming programming

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with scientists to understand their requirements
• Interfacing with system orchestration, non-realtime control and compiler teams to ensure our work integrates seamlessly with the wider software architecture.
• Interfacing with FPGA and electronics teams to shape the overall system architecture.
• Implementing drivers for various real-time devices.
• Producing tooling to enable users of our code to iterate rapidly and fearlessly.
• Developing the execution environment for the user programs which run on our systems.
• Continually evaluating the shape of our APIs and improving them for our internal users.