Senior HPC Platform Engineer - Hybrid Quantum Research

Ionq; Bothell (WA); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ is seeking a Senior HPC Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team to design, develop, and support the internal HPC platform used by researchers and developers advancing quantum computing.

This role offers a hybrid work model with opportunities to shape architecture, collaborate with researchers, and deploy scalable tooling across on‑premises and cloud environments. Strong programming, Linux, and container experience are essential to accelerate scientific computing at IonQ.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, especially in systems automation, backend services, or platform tooling.
• Proficiency with scripting and programming languages such as Python, Go, and Bash.
• Experience with Linux container tools and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support a high-performance computing software platform to enable quantum computing research, engineering, control, and application development.
• Build user-facing web applications and self-service tooling that let researchers discover, access, and run their work on the platform — across interactive development, batch jobs, and CI/CD pipelines on both on-premises and cloud systems.
• Build operational tooling and services for the Infrastructure team, including telemetry and observability pipelines, service-level (SLO) dashboards, and automation for provisioning and managing systems.
• Write well-tested, maintainable code and take part in design and code review; help shape the platform's architecture and engineering practices as it and the team grow.
• Support IonQ's internal researchers and software developers as they run simulations and other workloads.
• Build technical relationships with stakeholders across teams running a wide variety of workloads.
• Contribute to clear documentation and user guides so the platform is easy to adopt and increasingly self-service.
• Self-manage your projects, priorities, and deadlines; identify, track, and mitigate roadblocks and technical risks.

Skills

Python

Go

Bash

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Docker

Podman

Singularity

Enroot

Job description

IonQ is seeking a Senior HPC Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Team to design, develop, and support the internal HPC platform used by researchers and developers advancing quantum computing.

This role offers a hybrid work model with opportunities to shape architecture, collaborate with researchers, and deploy scalable tooling across on‑premises and cloud environments. Strong programming, Linux, and container experience are essential to accelerate scientific computing at IonQ.