10 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 root-cause analysis 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 reliable software delivery.
- Build systems that automate calibration and bring-up of laboratory equipment.
- Review scientist-contributed code and provide guidance on architecture, readability, maintainability, and best practices.
- Coordinate with other IonQ software teams to align and integrate systems.
- Improve the accessibility, scalability, and self-service capabilities of R&D software.
- 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.
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including work on complex, cross-functional systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python 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 qualifications include 8+ years of software experience, scientific or R&D experience, hardware control or data acquisition experience, technical mentoring experience, cloud infrastructure experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, modern DevOps practices, and database design and management experience.
Benefits
- Boston, Massachusetts location with the option to work a few days per week in-office.
- Up to 10% domestic travel.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Matching 401(k).
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays.
- Parental and adoption leave.
- Legal insurance.
- Home technology stipend.
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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.