Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

About the role

IonQ is seeking a senior Systems Software Engineer to join the Runtime Software team in Oxford. This role involves working with experimental scientists to implement real-time control system behaviors and develop abstractions for quantum computing experiments. You will contribute to the core execution model and Rust libraries that power advanced quantum systems.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Required skills

• Systems programming
• Real-time Linux
• Embedded systems
• Low-latency computing
• Rust

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plan
• Dental plan
• Vision plan
• Matching 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Adoption leave
• Legal insurance
• Home technology stipend

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 IonQ Tempo quantum computers and has achieved world-record performance in quantum computing.