11 hours ago
Oxford, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own a group of device controllers through API design, implementation, rollout, and ongoing operational health.
- Make services robust against unreliable real-world instruments and external dependencies.
- Bring devices onto the current framework and roll changes out across the fleet without disrupting experiments.
- Improve shared controller infrastructure when issues apply across multiple devices.
- Work with systems teams and quantum scientists to improve observability, health checking, and alerting.
- Review code and mentor less experienced engineers while continuing hands-on development.
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 and interfaces such as SCPI, Modbus, serial, and Ethernet.
- Experience owning the production behavior and operational reliability of software.
- Strong communication skills and an interest in helping other engineers improve.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, IonQ stock options, and an annual performance bonus.
- Generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance, and career-development opportunities.
- Additional benefits include medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- Location is Oxford, UK, with a hybrid office commitment.
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.