10 hours ago
Pleasanton, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$142k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of reliable, high-performance production software architectures in Rust.
- Architect and verify system controllers on ARM SoCs, including user-space drivers for complex peripherals and low-latency data acquisition pipelines.
- Implement and optimize control loops and precision algorithms for quantum sensing instruments.
- Lead board testing, hardware bring-up, hardware integration, and fault-tolerant error handling.
- Oversee core software libraries supporting control and automation of quantum systems.
- Lead technical code reviews and retrospectives, mentor junior engineers, and improve development processes.
- Collaborate with physicists, electronics engineers, firmware engineers, and hardware teams in a hands-on laboratory environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a proven track record in embedded or hardware-adjacent environments.
- Strong Rust software architecture and development experience.
- Ability to work hands-on in a laboratory alongside physical hardware and complex test setups.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills across hardware, software, and physics disciplines.
- Preferred: extensive C/C++ experience or Python and scientific-library experience for data analysis and modeling.
- Preferred: expertise in PID loops, fixed-point digital filters, and advanced control algorithms.
- Preferred: experience with TCP/UDP, UART, SPI, I2C, SoC/FPGA architectures, Linux device drivers, and standard test and measurement equipment.
Benefits
- Platinum-level family medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Employer 401(k) contributions.
- 20 days of paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave and adoption leave.
- Fully stocked kitchen.
- Legal insurance and a home technology stipend.
- Onsite role in Pleasanton, California, with up to 5% domestic or international travel.
About IonQ
IonQ builds trapped-ion quantum computers and offers access to them via major cloud platforms and direct systems for enterprise and research users. The public company (NYSE: IONQ), founded in 2015 and headquartered in College Park, Maryland, sells quantum hardware, cloud services, and development tools used in areas like materials modeling, optimization, and machine learning. Its systems are available through AWS Braket, Microsoft Azure Quantum, and Google Cloud Marketplace.