Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

ionq·Oxfordsenior

In short

→Ingeniero de software de runtime para computadoras cuánticas en Oxford, Reino Unido.
→Desarrollas sistemas en tiempo real en Rust para controlar hardware cuántico basado en iones.
→Destaca la colaboración cercana con científicos experimentales en un entorno de vanguardia de computación cuántica.

Proficiency in English required for collaboration with global teams.

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✓Experiencia sólida en Rust
✓Conocimiento profundo de sistemas en tiempo real
✓Experiencia en programación de bajo nivel y control de hardware
✓Habilidades en diseño de bibliotecas y abstracciones de software
✓Experiencia trabajando con ciencia experimental y equipos interdisciplinarios
✓Compromiso con la mejora continua y el rendimiento de sistema

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About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role is based at our Oxford, England (UK) office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 5% Job ID: 1830 The Role: 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 : In this position, you will work on developing abs

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