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Staff Software Engineer - Product Delivery

IonQ

$162,920 - $213,304
Apr 16, 2025
Bothell, WA, US • College Park, MD, US
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IonQ is looking to develop the world's most powerful full-stack quantum computer based on trapped-ion technology, and needs a Software Engineer to design software that can effectively improve the development and delivery of quantum computer products.

Requirements

  • Experience through the full life cycle of a large scale software product used for automating the operations of a complicated electrical, mechanical, or optical system
  • Experience deploying mathematical optimization or machine learning in commercially or industrially useful ways
  • Experience developing embedded software or higher level interfaces for a device relying on closely coupled FPGA and CPU processing components
  • Proficiency with lab equipment relevant to experimental physics including oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers, power meters, RF cables, fiber optics, and breakout boards
  • Hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting applications deployed in containers and orchestration systems such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Expertise in Python packaging, containerization and/or virtual environment administration
  • Familiarity with the fundamental principles of compilers

Responsibilities

  • Learn the fundamental principles of our products and their development activities in order to design software which can effectively improve both
  • Write code used to run physical experiments and quantum computer operations
  • Automate and optimize the calibration of our systems' physical parameters
  • Pair program with experimental physicists, teaching scalable software engineering practices along the way
  • Conduct hands-on testing at multiple levels of our software stack, from high level API to analog signals on an oscilloscope
  • Effectively self-manage projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
  • Mentor junior staff

Other

  • 7+ years experience as a core software developer of applications that many users depend on to do their jobs
  • 7+ years experience advancing the development of a commercial or industrial electronic hardware product and/or conducting fundamental research requiring complicated electronic or optical systems
  • A PhD earned supporting research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, quantum computing, or related fields
  • Less than 10% travel time between office sites
  • Must be near one of our offices in College Park, Seattle, or Toronto
  • Must be a U.S.-person for export controls and government contracts work and/or obtain any necessary license/confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls