Base Salary
$146k - $191k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and support stable, performant R&D software used by IonQ scientists.
- Own the SDLC for R&D codebases, including bug triage, regression fixes, and long-term code health.
- Improve logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, observability, and root-cause diagnosis across the R&D software stack.
- Design, implement, and manage backend and frontend systems for R&D data acquisition.
- Build and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines for reliable releases.
- Develop automated systems for lab equipment calibration and bring-up.
- Review scientist-contributed code and provide guidance on cleanliness, architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Coordinate with other IonQ software teams to align and integrate systems.
- Improve R&D software accessibility, scalability, and self-service capabilities for scientists.
- Mentor engineers and scientist contributors and lead cross-cutting initiatives that improve stability and contributor experience.
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 working on complex, cross-functional systems.
- Strong Python proficiency with the ability to debug across the stack and work with concurrency, asynchronous systems, networking protocols, and performance profiling.
- Experience owning the full software development lifecycle 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 supporting research teams in a scientific or R&D environment.
- Preferred: Experience with hardware control, automation, or data acquisition software.
- Preferred: Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.
- Preferred: Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, or Azure and modern DevOps practices.
- Preferred: Experience with database design and management.
- No physics or quantum background is required, but genuine interest in supporting research work is essential.
- Candidates may need to satisfy U.S. export control and government contract eligibility requirements, including U.S. Person status or applicable authorization.
Benefits
- Boston, MA office with the option to work remotely a few days per week
- Up to 10% domestic travel
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- 401(k) matching
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Parental and adoption leave
- Legal insurance
- Home technology stipend
About IonQ
IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and foundry - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the forthcoming IonQ Tempo, will be the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Toronto, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Learn more at IonQ.com.