Posted 4 weeks ago

Staff Software Engineer (Runtime)

IonQ

Oxford, England, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Hybrid
Full Time
Software Engineering

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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
In this position, you will work on developing abstractions over real-time control hardware, supporting the effective delivery of a control system capable of repeatedly and reproducibly driving our ions with nano-second level precision, with abstractions which are conducive to both fast iteration and system scaling
You’ll have the opportunity to accelerate the science core to the development of our systems, and contribute to the core execution model of our quantum computers, contributing directly to the success of building utility-scale quantum computers
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
Have developed excellent communication skills both within the context of software and across disciplines
Are used to maintaining and producing high quality code reviews and appropriate testing
Have experience with real-time linux or embedded systems or another low-latency computing environment
Are eager to learn and develop your skills
Have an interest in or experience with Rust
Have a desire to maximise impact through quick iteration and short cycles of learning and improvement
Have strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages
Have experience with a systems programming programming
Are comfortable working with rapidly evolving requirements
To be successful, you will need strong programming skills in a systems programming language, experience with software system design, and a desire to produce high quality code appropriate to a real-time environment. We’re looking for someone who can quickly iterate on low-level code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary, environment and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team