Senior Software Engineer, Non-Realtime Controllers

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer for the non-realtime controllers team will own the software that controls hardware supporting quantum computers, such as cryogenic compressors and vacuum pumps. This role involves designing and maintaining robust services on Linux-based systems to ensure the reliability of the quantum computing fleet. You will work in a cross-disciplinary environment alongside systems teams and quantum scientists to improve observability and operational health.

Responsibilities

• Own a group of device controllers end to end, covering API design, implementation, rollout and ongoing operational health.
• Make services robust against the ways real instruments fail.
• Bring devices onto our current framework, and roll the result out across the fleet without disrupting running experiments.
• Improve the shared framework where a problem turns out to be common to many controllers rather than specific to one.
• Work closely with the systems teams and scientists who depend on these services, and strengthen observability, health checking and alerting.
• Raise the standard of the code around you through review, and bring less experienced engineers on by working alongside them.

Required skills

• Linux
• Systems engineering
• Rust
• Async programming
• gRPC
• REST
• SCPI
• Modbus
• Serial
• Ethernet

Benefits

• IonQ stock options
• Annual performance bonus
• Generous annual leave
• Flexible hybrid working
• Private medical insurance
• Dental insurance

About the Company

IonQ, Inc. is a leading quantum platform and merchant supplier delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company is known for its cutting-edge quantum systems and has achieved world-record performance in quantum computing.