Senior Software Engineer (Transport)

Join IonQ, a leading quantum computing company, as a Senior Software Engineer in our Transport Software team. In this role, you will work closely with physicists to develop ion trap control software, contributing to the advancement of our trapped-ion quantum computers. You will have the opportunity to shape the control software that supports our mission of building the world's most advanced quantum systems. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, experience with performance-sensitive computing, and a desire to produce high-quality code.

• Developing ion trap control software to guide the trajectories of ions in parallel using electromagnetic fields.
• Building the framework that transforms high-level ion transport specifications into voltage waveform data and readies it for runtime execution.
• Collaborating with experimental and theoretical scientists to understand their requirements for experiment and simulation.
• To be successful you will need strong programming skills in a systems programming language, experience with performance-sensitive computing, and a desire to produce high-quality code appropriate to control software deployed in production
• We are looking for someone who can build and iterate on high-performance code in a collaborative, cross-disciplinary environment and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team
• Familiarity with mathematics and experience with numerical programming, such as in Python
• Experience producing and maintaining high-quality code in a production context
• Experience with a systems programming language like Rust or C++. We use Rust in our systems, experience of this language is not essential but a desire to learn it is beneficial
• Being comfortable with rapidly evolving requirements, and eager to learn and develop your skills
• Excellent communication skills both within the context of software and across disciplines