Senior Staff Orchestration Engineer

IonQ•Bothell, WA

3d•$200,698 - $287,791•Hybrid

About The Position

At scale, quantum computers will be integrated into classical datacenters — combining the unique strengths of CPUs, GPUs, and QPUs will help us solve the world’s hardest problems. We’re building a cloud service that lets customers combine quantum and classical computation seamlessly, where the classical can be either general-purpose or high-performance computing (HPC). As a Senior Staff Software Engineer leading our hybrid execution efforts, you’ll define and build the platform that makes hybrid quantum-classical workloads easy to write, extend, and run in production.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent practical experience -- untraditional backgrounds are welcome and encouraged!
Demonstrated experience as a technical lead, with the ability to deliver projects in a dynamic and ambiguous environment
10+ years experience in software engineering
Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-hosted services or APIs that external customers depend on
Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
Experience defining extensible service or function models (e.g. plugin architectures or function-as-a-service)
Experience designing developer-facing libraries or SDKs used by external customers

Nice To Haves

15+ years experience in software engineering
Experience with hybrid quantum-classical computing frameworks or quantum SDKs
Experience integrating cloud services with HPC infrastructure
Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of our Hosted Hybrid Service, partnering closely with product management to define the product and validate it
Define the execution model for the hybrid service — how quantum-classical workloads are defined, how they can be extended, and how customers specify HPC computation when it’s needed
Drive the infrastructure strategy for the classical compute — both HPC and non-HPC — that backs hybrid jobs, in partnership with our cloud infrastructure team
Build and maintain a library of reusable quantum workloads for customers and internal teams to build on
Establish best practices for code development, quality assurance, documentation, and continuous integration and deployment
Collaborate across HPC, Cloud, and Product teams, and communicate with executive leadership
Mentor junior staff members; we’ll ultimately be building a team around you!