Staff Software Engineer, IonQ
Coherent Control Gate Operations
$141.7-185.5k
+ Variable bonus + Equity
More information about location
Quantum computing platform
Open for applications
Quantum computing platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$141.7-185.5k
+ Variable bonus + Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems, transforming business, society, and the planet for the better.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for you if you enjoy hands-on, fast, highly creative work supporting completely new hardware systems
- The ideal candidate will have experience leading multiple simultaneous product development efforts, projects, and initiatives
- You’ll be able to balance technical expertise with strong business judgment to make great technology choices. You’ll strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and incisive judgment
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience—non-traditional backgrounds are welcome here
- 7+ years experience in software development in one or more general-purpose programming languages (like Python, or C++, with experience in hardware/software interface)
- 5+ years of firmware development experience with a focus on both realtime and linux systems
- Experienced in writing Drivers/API’s for instrumentation access and control
- Experience in requirements gathering and definition
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Broad understanding in OS architecture options and implications on your code development
- Experience in interteam and interdisciplinary communication
Desirable
- Understanding of control systems and implementation of digital control loops
- Expertise with distributed systems and their architecture
- Experience with technical leadership and team growth
- Experience with one or more of the following:
- Experience working with FPGA or FPGA-based control systems
- Provisioning on cloud-based systems and databases
- A background in robotics
- Experience developing hardware abstraction libraries
- Familiarity with digital signal processing
- Strong skills and practices around DevOps
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to architect and develop our control and metrology systems for our next-generation quantum computer systems
- With a focus on industry best practices and scalability
- You will need to code software for high precision control of quantum environments that include photonic devices, creative feedback loops and robotic actuators to enable computation. These are critical deliverables to enable our vision of Quantum advantage
- Independently architect and write code to control our next generation systems and metrology hardware
- Lead development of new algorithms and data collection infrastructure
- Lead definition of both physical and firmware architectures for scalability and reliability
- Establish best practices in code development process, QA and end user documentation
- Collaborate with an experienced interdisciplinary staff across a multi-disciplinary organization
- Act as an interface between opto-mechanical teams and software teams to help define capabilities and requirements
Our take
IonQ is a quantum computing company, its current quantum computer, the IonQ Quantum Cloud is accessible through the cloud. An offshoot of the co-founder's 25 years of academic research in quantum information sciences, IonQ hopes to build the world's best quantum computers that can solve complex problems at a much faster rate than that of traditional computers.
Over the past few years, IonQ has partnered with several major technology companies, including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google to make its quantum computers more widely available. Most recently, it partnered with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to bring quantum solutions to government and defense sectors across the US.
IonQ has also acquired Entangled Networks to bolster its product offerings and also merged with a special purpose acquisition company to become a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "IONQ". The merger brought in substantial gross earnings that IonQ plans to utilize in order to accelerate its technology development and commercialization efforts.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2020
$7m
SERIES B
Oct 2019
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $82m
Company HQ
College Park, MD
Leadership
Peter Chapman
(President & CEO)Previously the Director of Engineering for Amazon Prime, and the President and CEO of Media Arc and eMusic.
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