IonQ is looking to develop the world's most powerful full-stack quantum computer based on trapped-ion technology to unlock a new era of computing.
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
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
- Effectively self-manage projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
- Mentor junior staff
- Less than 10% travel time between office sites
- PhD earned supporting research in atomic, molecular, and optical physics, quantum computing, or related fields
