Senior Staff Software Engineer

Senior Staff Software Engineer

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We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer on the Automation & Calibration Team. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to keep the fleet of IonQ’s quantum computers and demonstration systems running autonomously at peak performance and throughput in order to solve the world’s most complex problems faster.

Improving the quality and optimizing the efficiency of our quantum computers requires developing control routines and automated calibrations with our team of experimental physicist operators. Prior experience with control theory, hardware device control, and working with scientists will be helpful; data analysis and statistical methods are even more useful.

We encourage applicants from different career paths for this position. You could be a software engineer with an emerging interest in quantum computing. You could be a quantum researcher with strong software engineering skills and desire to focus on the engineering discipline. We’d love a blend of hands-on experience as well as tactical and strategic direction.

Responsibilities:

• Write software to automate our system behavior to meet business and technical goals
• Write software to calibrate our systems’ physical parameters
• Provide technical expertise in building robust, well-engineered, tested software solutions
• Effectively self-manage projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Identify, track and mitigate execution roadblocks and technical risks
• Mentor more junior engineers and team members with different technical backgrounds in your area of expertise
• Listen and learn from team members with different areas of expertise and experiences

You’d be a good fit with:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
• 13+ years of professional programming experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience) in a general-purpose language like Python, Go, Rust, or C++
• Data analysis skills in areas like statistical testing, modeling, optimization, and/or machine learning.

You’d be a great fit with:

• MS or PhD or equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field
• Experience with machine learning and/or mathematical optimization
• A background in digital signal processing and/or control theory
• Experience in working with technical experts outside of traditional software engineering, particularly electrical engineers and physicists

Location: This position can be on-site or hybrid from one of our offices in College Park, MD, or Bothell, WA.

Travel: Occasional, 1-4 per year

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