Senior Software Engineer, IonQ
Transport
2+ days a week in office
Quantum computing platform
Posted today
Quantum computing platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
2+ days a week in office
1001+ 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
- To be successful you will need strong programming skills in a systems programming language, experience with performance-sensitive computing, and a desire to produce high-quality code appropriate to control software deployed in production
- We are looking for someone who can build and iterate on high-performance code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team
- Familiarity with mathematics and experience with numerical programming, such as in Python
- Experience with a systems programming language like Rust or C++. We use Rust in our systems, experience of this language is not essential but a desire to learn it is beneficial
- Excellent communication skills both within the context of software and across disciplines
- Experience producing and maintaining high-quality code in a production context
- Being comfortable with rapidly evolving requirements, and eager to learn and develop your skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Transport Software team at IonQ, based in our Oxford office
- In this role you will work with physicists to develop ion trap control software, guiding the trajectories of hundreds to thousands of ions in parallel using electromagnetic fields. This will directly contribute to the team's mission of scaling the computational capacity of our trapped-ion quantum computers
- This role will play a central role in shaping the control software that supports our work in building the world's most advanced quantum systems
- In this position, you will develop our framework for describing ion transport constraints and, in combination with an electromagnetic model of the ion trap, synthesise voltage waveform data to drive hundreds to thousands of independent DAC channels, with runtime parametrisation to enable closed-loop calibration and mid-circuit feedforward
- You will have the opportunity to accelerate the design and analysis of transport waveforms for trapped-ion quantum computers, and to develop the high-performance data pipelines required to control ion traps of this size and complexity, contributing directly to our roadmap for utility-scale quantum computing
- Building the framework that transforms high-level ion transport specifications into voltage waveform data and readies it for runtime execution
- Supporting the transport waveform team in developing new solvers and physics simulations as components in this framework
- Collaborating with experimental and theoretical scientists to understand their requirements for experiment and simulation
- Contributing to the design of transport operations used for quantum circuits, and how they are parametrised and calibrated
- Interfacing with runtime, non-real-time control, FPGA and electronics teams to shape the overall system architecture
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 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 defence sectors across the US.
IonQ has also acquired Entangled Networks to bolster its product offerings and has 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 utilise to accelerate its technology development and commercialisation efforts.
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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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