Senior Staff Software Engineer, IonQ

• Prior experience with control theory, hardware device control, and working with scientists will be helpful; data analysis and statistical methods are even more useful
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related field
• 13+ years programming experience in a general-purpose language like Python, Go, Rust, or C++
• Data analysis skills in areas like statistical testing, modeling, optimization, and/or machine learning

Desirable

• We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Quantum OS team
• As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to keep the fleet of IonQ’s quantum computers and demonstration systems running autonomously at peak performance and throughput, in order to solve the world’s most complex problems faster
• Improving the quality and optimizing the efficiency of our quantum computers requires developing control routines and automated calibrations with our team of experimental physicist operators
• We encourage applicants from different career paths for this position
• You could be a software engineer with an emerging interest in quantum computing
• You could be a quantum researcher with strong software engineering skills and desire to focus on the engineering discipline
• We’d love a blend of hands-on experience as well as tactical and strategic direction
• Lead, design, architect, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve major software components, systems, and features
• Provide technical expertise in building robust, well-engineered, tested software solutions
• Effectively self-manage projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Identify, track and mitigate execution roadblocks and technical risks
• Mentor more junior engineers and team members with different technical backgrounds in your area of expertise
• Listen and learn from team members with different areas of expertise and experiences
• Collaborates with customers, peers (both functional and cross-functional), industry professionals, and external partners
• Leads and directs cross-functional projects and programs, and often acts as team leader to coordinate the activities of others
• Makes decisions that influence the achievement of customer, technical, operational, program, and/or service objectives

Total funding: $82m

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.