Senior Hybrid Quantum-Cloud Platform Engineer

IonQ; Bothell (WA); Hybrid; USD 201,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Parental/adoption leave

Legal insurance

Home technology stipend

Job summary

IonQ is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead our Hosted Hybrid Service, shaping how quantum-classical workloads are defined and executed. You will guide infrastructure for HPC and non-HPC workloads and build reusable quantum workloads for customers and internal teams.

You will drive best practices, collaborate with HPC, Cloud, and Product teams, and mentor junior staff, ultimately helping grow a strong engineering group around this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent practical experience -- untraditional backgrounds are welcome and encouraged!
• 10+ years experience in software engineering
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-hosted services or APIs that external customers depend on
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience defining extensible service or function models (e.g. plugin architectures or function-as-a-service)
• Experience designing developer-facing libraries or SDKs used by external customers

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of our Hosted Hybrid Service, partnering closely with product management to define the product and validate it
• Define the execution model for the hybrid service — how quantum-classical workloads are defined, how they can be extended, and how customers specify HPC computation when it's needed
• Drive the infrastructure strategy for the classical compute — both HPC and non-HPC — that backs hybrid jobs, in partnership with our cloud infrastructure team
• Build and maintain a library of reusable quantum workloads for customers and internal teams to build on
• Establish best practices for code development, quality assurance, documentation, and continuous integration and deployment
• Collaborate across HPC, Cloud, and Product teams, and communicate with executive leadership
• Mentor junior staff members; we'll ultimately be building a team around you!

Skills

Technical lead

Cloud-hosted services

Docker

Kubernetes

API design

SDKs

Developer libraries

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

IonQ is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead our Hosted Hybrid Service, shaping how quantum-classical workloads are defined and executed. You will guide infrastructure for HPC and non-HPC workloads and build reusable quantum workloads for customers and internal teams.

You will drive best practices, collaborate with HPC, Cloud, and Product teams, and mentor junior staff, ultimately helping grow a strong engineering group around this role.