3 months ago
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, and fault-tolerant error-handling implementation with hardware teams.
- Oversee the development and scaling of software libraries for controlling and automating quantum systems.
- Lead technical code reviews and project retrospectives while mentoring junior engineers.
- Collaborate across disciplines with physicists, electronics engineers, and firmware engineers from concept through deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience, including a proven track record in embedded or hardware-adjacent environments.
- U.S. citizenship, lawful U.S. permanent residency, or qualifying refugee or asylee status is required for export-control compliance.
- Comfort working hands-on in a laboratory alongside physical hardware and complex test setups.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across hardware engineering, software, and physics teams.
- Preferred: extensive C/C++ experience or Python with scientific libraries for data analysis and modeling.
- Preferred: advanced control-algorithm experience, including PID loops and fixed-point digital filters.
- Preferred: experience with TCP/UDP, UART, SPI, and I2C hardware interfaces.
- Preferred: experience with SoC/FPGA architectures and specialized Linux device drivers.
- Preferred: proficiency with oscilloscopes, function generators, and voltmeters.
Benefits
- Onsite role in Pleasanton, California.
- Up to 5% domestic or international travel.
- Platinum-level family medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Health and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Employer 401(k) contributions or matching 401(k).
- 20 days of paid time off and 11 paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave and parental/adoption leave.
- Fully stocked kitchen.
- Legal insurance and a home technology stipend.
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.