Senior Staff Software Engineer - HPC Integration

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. Today, we already use IonQ quantum computers in tandem with high-performance computer (HPC) clusters in applications like quantum machine learning and image analysis. As a Senior Staff Software Engineer leading our HPC integration, you’ll help build and maintain our interfaces with SLURM and other open HPC stacks.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of our HPC software stack integrations
• Establish best practices for code development, quality assurance, documentation, and continuous integration and deployment
• Lead and participate in code reviews
• Effectively self-manage projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables; Identify, track and mitigate execution roadblocks and technical risks
• Collaborate across teams and communicate with executive leadership
• Mentor junior staff members; we’ll ultimately be building a team around you!
• Help minimize overhead between classical and quantum resources through efficient scheduling and parallelization

You’d be a good fit with:

• 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
• 2+ years experience with Slurm or other HPC batch schedulers (LSF, PBS, GridEngine, HTCondor, etc.) and/or other HPC technologies
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Familiarity with MPI or other multiprocessing schemes
• Significant experience with systems languages like C/C++ or Go, plus proficiency in Python
• Significant experience with the Linux ecosystem

You’d be a great fit with:

• 15+ years experience in software engineering
• 5+ years experience with open source contributions
• 2+ years experience as an open source project maintainer with an active community
• 5+ years with High Performance Compute cluster management
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools
• Familiarity with quantum software stacks like MQSS or OpenQSE
• Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks like Ray or Dask
• Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science

Location: This is a hybrid role based at our Bothell, Washington facility.

Travel: 10%

Job ID: 1135

The approximate base salary range for this position is $187,358- $245,300. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.