Staff Software Engineer, IonQ
Runtime
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1-3 days a week in office
Quantum computing platform
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Quantum computing platform
1001+ employees
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More information about location
1-3 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 software system design, and a desire to produce high quality code appropriate to a real-time environment. We’re looking for someone who can quickly iterate on low-level code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, environment and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team
- Have strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages
- Have experience with a systems programming programming
- Have experience with real-time linux or embedded systems or another low-latency computing environment
- Have an interest in or experience with Rust
- Have developed excellent communication skills both within the context of software and across disciplines
- Are comfortable working with rapidly evolving requirements
- Are used to maintaining and producing high quality code reviews and appropriate testing
- Have a desire to maximise impact through quick iteration and short cycles of learning and improvement
- Are eager to learn and develop your skills
What the job involves
- We are looking for a senior Systems Software Engineer to join our Runtime Software team at Oxford Ionics / IonQ
- In this role, you will be responsible for working directly with the experimental scientists to implement the real-time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require for their experiments, contributing to the team’s mission of enabling our science teams to experiment and improve the primitive operations which allow compute, and building towards fault tolerant computation
- You’ll play an important part in shaping the core, Rust, libraries and the execution environment which take our system from a collection of hardware to a quantum computer, and support our work in building the world’s most advanced quantum systems
- In this position, you will work on developing abstractions over real-time control hardware, supporting the effective delivery of a control system capable of repeatedly and reproducibly driving our ions with nano-second level precision, with abstractions which are conducive to both fast iteration and system scaling
- You’ll have the opportunity to accelerate the science core to the development of our systems, and contribute to the core execution model of our quantum computers, contributing directly to the success of building utility-scale quantum computers
- Collaborating with scientists to understand their requirements
- Interfacing with system orchestration, non-realtime control and compiler teams to ensure our work integrates seamlessly with the wider software architecture
- Interfacing with FPGA and electronics teams to shape the overall system architecture
- Implementing drivers for various real-time devices
- Producing tooling to enable users of our code to iterate rapidly and fearlessly
- Developing the execution environment for the user programs which run on our systems
- Continually evaluating the shape of our APIs and improving them for our internal users
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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