Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

We are looking for a senior Systems Software Engineer to join our Runtime Software team at Oxford Ionics / IonQ. In this role, you will be responsible for working directly with the experimental scientists to implement the real-time control system behaviours and provide abstractions they require for their experiments, contributing to the team’s mission of enabling our science teams to experiment and improve the primitive operations which allow compute, and building towards fault tolerant computation. You’ll play an important part in shaping the core, Rust, libraries and the execution environment which take our system from a collection of hardware to a quantum computer, and support our work in building the world’s most 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

Requirements

Strong programming skills in a systems programming language; Experience with software system design; Desire to produce high quality code appropriate to a real-time environment; Ability to quickly iterate on low-level code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment; Strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages; Experience with systems programming; Experience with real-time Linux or embedded systems or another low-latency computing environment; Interest in or experience with Rust; Excellent communication skills both within the context of software and across disciplines; Comfortable working with rapidly evolving requirements; Used to maintaining and producing high quality code reviews and appropriate testing; Desire to maximise impact through quick iteration and short cycles of learning and improvement; Eager to learn and develop your skills

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans; Matching 401(k); Unlimited PTO and paid holidays; Parental/adoption leave; Legal insurance; Home technology stipend