10 hours ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own device controllers end to end, including API design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operational health.
- Build robust services that handle failures in real-world instruments and external dependencies.
- Integrate devices with the current framework and roll changes out across the fleet without disrupting experiments.
- Improve shared controller frameworks when solutions apply across multiple devices.
- Strengthen observability, health checking, and alerting in collaboration with systems teams and scientists.
- Review code and help less experienced engineers improve while remaining hands-on.
Requirements
- Experience working with Linux-based systems and interfacing with hardware.
- Strong systems engineering skills, with solid Rust experience or deep proficiency in another systems language and willingness to work in Rust, including asynchronous programming.
- Experience designing and operating networked services such as gRPC or REST, including error handling, observability, and failure modes.
- Experience with hardware and instrument protocols or interfaces such as SCPI, Modbus, serial, and Ethernet.
- Experience owning the production behavior and reliability of software, not only its correctness in testing.
- Strong communication skills across software and interdisciplinary teams.
- Interest in mentoring and helping other engineers improve while continuing to build software.
Benefits
- Hybrid working in Oxford, UK.
- Competitive salary, IonQ stock options, and an annual performance bonus.
- Generous annual leave and paid holidays.
- Private medical and dental insurance, plus comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- Career development opportunities alongside industry-leading scientists and engineers.
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.