Senior Staff Orchestration Engineer

IonQ•Bothell, WA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

At IonQ, we are building a cloud service that seamlessly integrates quantum and classical computation. This platform will enable customers to combine quantum and classical workloads, utilizing general-purpose or high-performance computing (HPC) for the classical component. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer leading our hybrid execution efforts, you will be instrumental in defining and building the platform that simplifies the creation, extension, and production deployment of hybrid quantum-classical workloads.

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!