4 hours ago
Base Salary
$146k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support stable, performant R&D software used by scientists.
- Own the software development lifecycle for R&D codebases, including bug triage, regression fixes, and long-term code health.
- Improve logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, observability, and diagnosis across the R&D software stack.
- Design, implement, and manage backend and frontend systems for R&D data acquisition.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for quality and reliable deployments.
- Build systems for automated calibration and bring-up of laboratory equipment.
- Review scientist-contributed code and provide guidance on architecture, cleanliness, and best practices.
- Coordinate with other IonQ software teams on system alignment and integration.
- Identify opportunities to improve R&D software accessibility, scalability, and self-service.
- Mentor engineers and scientist contributors and lead cross-cutting stability or contributor-experience initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience on complex, cross-functional systems.
- Strong Python proficiency and ability to debug across the stack, reason about concurrency and asynchronous systems, work with networking protocols, and perform performance profiling.
- Experience owning the full SDLC for production software, including debugging, incident response, and ongoing maintenance.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience writing user-facing documentation such as tutorials, API reference guides, and internal knowledge-base articles.
- Preferred: 8+ years of professional software experience, ideally in a scientific or R&D environment supporting research teams.
- Preferred: experience with hardware control, automation, or data acquisition.
- Preferred: experience mentoring and providing technical leadership to engineers.
- Preferred: experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, and modern DevOps practices.
- Preferred: experience with database design and management.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Matching 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
- Parental and adoption leave.
- Legal insurance.
- Home technology stipend.
- Boston-based role with the option to work a few days per week in-office.
- Up to 10% domestic travel.
- Employment is subject to U.S. export-control and government-contract eligibility requirements, including U.S. Person verification, licensing, or a license exception where applicable.
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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.