5 hours ago
Oxford, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Solve control-plane problems involving durability, recovery, and system-wide correctness.
- Make machine readiness assessments reliable for the broader control plane.
- Diagnose and eliminate classes of failures occurring across the fleet under real production load.
- Define service boundaries, document designs, and move code across service boundaries.
- Build tooling and test infrastructure that improve engineering velocity.
- Evolve service deployment and operations as the quantum-computing fleet grows.
- Raise engineering standards through hands-on implementation and code reviews.
Requirements
- Deep systems engineering experience and a record of operating production services where data loss is unacceptable.
- Expert systems engineering skills, with solid Rust experience or deep proficiency in another systems language and willingness to work in Rust, including asynchronous programming.
- Experience building and operating stateful networked services exposed over gRPC or REST, including error handling, observability, and failure-mode analysis.
- Experience with persistence design, crash recovery, live-data migrations, data durability, and correctness; the team uses PostgreSQL.
- Experience diagnosing difficult production failures and addressing timing or interleaving bugs through deterministic approaches.
- Experience with scheduling and workflow systems such as Temporal, Hatchet, Airflow, Slurm, or PostgreSQL-backed queues.
- Strong written design skills and excellent communication across software and other disciplines.
- Useful additional experience includes replacing load-bearing systems in service, production containerized services, Kubernetes, declarative deployment, distributed tracing, formal specification or model checking, closed-loop systems, and scientific computing or research facilities.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, IonQ stock options, and an annual performance bonus.
- Generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance, and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Matching 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
- Career-development opportunities alongside scientists, engineers, and industry leaders.
- Location is Oxford, UK, with a hybrid office commitment.
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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.