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Staff Software Engineer, Runtime

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,

Company

IonQ

Location

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Status

Open

Posted

2026-08-27T14:02:49+00:00

IonQ's Runtime Software team in Oxford is hiring a staff-level systems engineer to build the Rust libraries and execution environment that turn a collection of control hardware into a working quantum computer. The work covers abstractions over real-time control hardware, device drivers, tooling and API design, in close collaboration with experimental scientists, FPGA and electronics engineers, compiler and orchestration teams. The posting asks for strong systems programming experience, real-time Linux, embedded or low-latency work, and an interest in Rust; ion-trap control at nanosecond precision is the distinctive part.