IonQ is seeking a strategic and visionary Software Engineering Director to lead the development and operation of the core services provided by the IonQ Quantum Cloud platform (try it out yourself: https://cloud.ionq.com). This role is pivotal in delivering access to our advanced quantum computers and simulators via our APIs in the cloud and on-prem. The Director will drive the technical direction of the IonQ Quantum Cloud API platform, ensuring it aligns with IonQ's overall business objectives and market opportunities in the rapidly evolving quantum computing landscape.

The ideal candidate will have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous initiatives, balancing multiple activities with a keen eye for prioritizing for the biggest impact. You’ll be able to balance technical expertise and savvy with strong business judgment to make great technology choices with lasting impact. You’ll strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and incisive judgment. You'll enjoy learning technical topics, working across multiple business streams, and be uniquely positioned to help us reach the next horizon in secure quantum computing.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the technical roadmap for IonQ's quantum platform, aligning with business goals and market demands
• Own API design and versioning strategy for IonQ Quantum Cloud, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-documented, and a joy to integrate with
• Partner closely with developer tools leadership to ensure seamless integration between cloud services and client SDKs
• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives, collaborating with product, research, and engineering leadership to define long-term technology choices and platform architecture
• Manage technical delivery of integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring alignment with IonQ's cloud strategy and business objectives
• Develop and manage the cloud services portfolio budget, ensuring cost optimization and alignment with financial goals
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the cloud platform, providing regular reports and insights to executive leadership
• Provide technical leadership and guidance in building robust, scalable, and innovative software solutions that can be deployed in a variety of contexts – including on-prem and hybrid environments

In your first three months, you will focus on assessing the current cloud platform strategy, identifying key areas for improvement, and delivering new capabilities to meet growing global demand.

You’d be a good fit with...

• 12+ years of progressive technical leadership experience, including significant experience in managing and developing large-scale cloud platforms
• 7+ years experience designing and operating cloud APIs and services at scale
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic plans, working cross-functionally to align technology initiatives with business objectives
• Experience in building and leading high-performing distributed teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence across multiple timezones
• Sufficient technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary
• Experiencing shipping and operating business-critical distributed systems
• Experience managing teams using AI agents for engineering tasks
• Prior experience as a software engineer and team lead
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (your staff, users, the company as a whole)

You’d be a great fit with...

• 18+ years of senior technical leadership experience, including experience at the director level or above (e.g., 30+ engineers organized in multiple layers)
• 10+ years experience designing and scaling APIs, with a proven track record of shipping interfaces developers love to use
• Experience owning a multi-tenant cloud API product end-to-end—from API design through deployment and operations—at scale
• Strong product and design sense
• Experience in driving organizational change and transformation in a rapidly evolving technology environment
• Experience recruiting and managing teams distributed across multiple continents
• Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction layers
• Strong business acumen and experience in developing and managing the engineering platform for a significant business unit
• Experience managing rigorous incident response processes, on-call rotations, and retrospectives
• Personal experience writing software with AI agents
• Prior experience with building/scaling platform-as-a-service offerings
• Prior experience with quantum computing

Location: This role will be based onsite at our office in Bothell, Washington or our Headquarters in College Park, MD.
Travel: Up to 10%
Job ID:  1332

The approximate base salary range for this position is $221,925 - $290,558. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

Location: This role is based at our College Park, MD office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely.
Travel: Up to 15%, domestic or international.
Job ID: 1492

The Role: 

We are looking for an Optomechanical engineer to join our Photonic Metrology team. As an optomechanical engineer , you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. 

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and validating optical and mechanical assemblies to support integrated photonics metrology. The ideal candidate is someone who is detail-oriented and a creative problem solver.

Responsibilities:

• Design, Assemble and align optical components, fiber arrays, micro‑optics, and mechanical fixtures used in photonic test stations
• Integrate motion stages, nanopositioners, and precision alignment hardware into complete metrology platforms
• Generate detailed drawings, BOMs, and documentation for fabrication and assembly
• Document findings and present results to cross‑functional teams including photonics, electronics, and manufacturing engineering
• Perform tolerance analysis, thermal‑mechanical assessments, and alignment strategy development

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, related field or equivalent experience
• Strong proficiency in SolidWorks for 3D modelling and mechanical design
• Experience with Zemax for optical simulation and optical design

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with motion control systems, automation, or active alignment algorithms.
• Experience assembling and aligning optical systems and fiber‑optic components.
• Experience with thermal/structural or vibration analysis

The approximate base salary range for this position is $95,945 - $125,616. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

This Senior IAM Engineer will own the Okta for Government High (FedRAMP High) tenant, which serves as the enterprise Identity Provider and Identity Governance platform for a 1,500+ user organization. The role is the primary technical resource responsible for the build, enhancement, and operation of key functions, including SSO integrations, Identity Governance (OIG), Lifecycle Management, Workflows automation, and Adaptive MFA policy.

In the first three months, you will help develop the core program documentation and workflows. You will collaborate with external teams like IT, Legal and People to integrate into company processes. You will work with our technical security experts to build Identity and Access management processes and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Own the Okta for Government High (FedRAMP High) tenant — configuration, health, lifecycle, and security posture
• Manage Universal Directory: on-prem AD Agent sync, HRIS attribute mastering, profile mappings, and group rules
• Build and maintain all SSO app integrations via the Okta Integration Network (OIN) using SAML, OIDC, and SCIM
• Own and maintain Okta Adaptive MFA policies: factor enrollment rules, risk-based step-up authentication, FIDO2/YubiKey/PIV/CAC configuration
• Maintain the Okta System Log to Microsoft Sentinel log streaming pipeline and retention configuration
• Own Okta Identity Governance (OIG): entitlement catalog, access certification campaign setup, SoD policy rules, and access request workflow design
• Own, Build and Maintain Okta Lifecycle Management: JML automation rules, HRIS connector configuration, and auto-provisioning and deprovisioning into all connected applications, access review triggers, and automated remediation
• Design, build, and document all Okta-side enhancements including new app onboarding, policy changes, and IGA configuration updates
• Write test cases for all Okta-side changes; execute UAT jointly with the Identity Governance & Operations Analyst before production promotion
• Support Identity Operations Specialist on Tier 2 Okta escalations and Workflow troubleshooting
• Assist Identity Governance & Operations Analyst with OIG campaign configuration and certification reporting

Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on Okta administration and engineering experience
• Demonstrated experience with Okta SSO app integrations via SAML 2.0 and OIDC
• Experience with Okta Lifecycle Management and HRIS connector configuration
• Experience building Okta Workflows for provisioning automation
• Experience with Okta Adaptive MFA policy configuration including FIDO2/WebAuthn and hardware token enrollment
• Experience with Okta Universal Directory including AD Agent deployment and profile mastering

Compliance Requirements: this role will be subject to US Federal regulations, therefore:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident (Green Card holder) — U.S. Person 
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance or pass a background investigation consistent with CUI access
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Okta for Government High (FedRAMP High) or FedRAMP Moderate environments — strong preference
• Okta Identity Governance (OIG) experience — access certifications, SoD, entitlement management
• Experience federating Okta to Microsoft Entra ID / GCCH as a SAML Service Provider
• Familiarity with CMMC, ITAR, GDPR, SOX, SOC 2 compliance requirements
• Experience with SCIM 2.0 provisioning to downstream applications
• Okta Identity Governance certification (preferred)

The approximate base salary range for this position is $126,887 - $166,127. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

Location: This role is based out of our College Park, Boulder, CO, or Bothell, WA offices, or can be remote in the US. 
Travel: Up to 1 week per quarter
Job ID:  1460

We are looking for a Senior Quantum Field Engineer for our US Federal business. As a Senior Quantum Field Engineer, you’ll be part of a team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum solutions and solve the world’s most complex problems.  Field Engineering sits at the intersection of customers, markets, products and product teams, algorithms, applications, innovation and strategy - this is the team where ideas become applied and have impact.

Join a nimble team of scientists, engineers, salespeople, marketers, business developers, and product managers to drive an entirely new quantum computing business. We’re seeking versatile engineers and architects skilled in technical sales, technical demos and customer interactions who feel energized to deliver IonQ’s quantum computing products and quantum applications. 

Responsibilities:

• Inspire and co-engineer solutions with the US Intel Agencies by explaining IonQ’s strategy, portfolio and answering technical questions about quantum portfolio (compute, network, security, sensing and space) and quantum applications.
• Lead and shepherd client discussions, inspiring them to see how quantum applications can be implemented in their business domain.
• This includes working through business needs and mapping Quantum Algorithms (financial services, bioscience, chemistry and materials, optimization, generative AI, and other domains) into application code and executing Proof-of-Concepts together with the IonQ Application team.
• Share insights from clients with the IonQ Product Management and Engineering teams such that client feedback is incorporated into our products.
• Navigate competitive objection handling
• Translate business needs expressed by our clients into technical work projects in collaboration with other team members.
• Create assets to explain features of our quantum applications and other IonQ quantum products.
• Move dialogs from initial ideation to focused exploration domain through to proof-of-concept and ultimately into production workflows.
• Lead client discovery sessions for business-oriented use cases that uncover potential overlap with development of useful quantum algorithms together with the IonQ Application team
• Partner with marketing, developer relations and business development to grow awareness of IonQ in the world at large.
• Attend industry conferences, as needed, to talk to client and support our booth activities.
• This is a technical customer-facing role with the appropriate balance of compensation acceleration for success and a base salary to ensure that credibility and technical correctness always comes first.

You’d be a good fit with:

• 10+ years of experience in technical customer-facing role or equivalent capacity.  The ability to communicate (at the various context-appropriate levels of depth) and persuade clearly, have strong EQ, and other customer-facing skills are critical.
• US Citizen, with Top Secret (TS) / Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearance required, with a full scope polygraph preferred
• 5 years of focused experience with technology companies that support US Intel Agencies
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or other STEM field, such as Chemistry, Physics or Engineering
• Motivated learner with a strong interest in quantum computing.
• Mission oriented person - driven to help the US Federal Government Intel agencies

You’d be a great fit with: 

• Masters or PhD in a STEM field, perhaps adjacent to quantum computing.
• Time on the customer side in various verticals included leadership roles - this provides customer empathy
• Hands-on experience with Qiskit, Cirq or other quantum computing SDK.
• Proficient in Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
• Expert architecture skills across various technologies (“full stack skills”)
• Experience leading technical events.

Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices (College Park, MD, Bothell, WA) or fully remote in the US or Canada.
Travel: Some travel expected in the US (20%) but opportunities for global travel are available as well for client meeting and IonQ conference activities.
Job ID:  1311

The approximate base salary range for this position is $192,979 - $252,659. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. In this role, you will be building and operating quantum computers, which requires lots of classical computers — from high-performance computing clusters to VMs and containerized services, we rely on on-prem and cloud-based computers every day. We also build out all of the avenues that code gets from laptops and workspaces onto those classical computers. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll help build and maintain this critical infrastructure. 

Responsibilities:

• Help build out, automate, and maintain our on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure 
• Contribute to expanding our Observability platform (built on Grafana stack) 
• Help develop and implement our digital security capabilities for both our cloud infrastructure and on-prem facilities
• Provision infrastructure in the cloud and on-prem as needed
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enabling developer acceleration
• Monitor systems to analyze and improve performance, security, and reliability
• Operationalize our global fleet and development services 
• Collaborate closely with software and hardware engineers to continuously improve how we do things

You’d be a good fit with:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT or equivalent practical experience -- untraditional backgrounds are welcome and encouraged!
• 6+ years experience in technical infrastructure and software development
• 3+ years of experience in Linux system administration
• 3+ years experience in Kubernetes
• Expert-level knowledge with a programming language of your choice
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

You’d be a great fit with:

• 5+ years experience with Kubernetes or other containerization technologies
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years experience with Terraform
• 3+ years experience with VM-based virtualization
• Prior experience running bare-metal Kubernetes clusters
• Prior experience provisioning physical servers and network equipment
• Prior experience scaling and securing distributed applications

Location: This role will be based at our office in College Park, MD, or Bothell, WA, and can work remotely up to 3 days per week. 
Travel: Up to 15%
Job ID:  1437

The approximate base salary range for this position is $145,920 - $191,047. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

We are looking for a Senior Mask Layout Engineer on the Fab Tapeout and Validation Team. As a Senior Mask Layout Engineer, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. 

In this role, you will be the owner of full-reticle tapeouts for use in trapped-ion quantum computers, which could include both photonic and analog electronic layers. In addition, you will help develop and maintain the internal PDK and circuit layout libraries, as well as write scripts to automate the layout of masks for tapeouts. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with the photonic and ion trap design and testing teams to help develop new and game-changing quantum technology to enable scalable quantum computing, memory, and networking.

The Fab Tapeout and Validation Team is a remote-friendly team and this role can be performed remotely or in-person at IonQ’s College Park, MD or Bothell, WA campuses. 

Responsibilities:

• Conduct Python-based layout for full-reticle tapeouts with commercial foundries
• Develop and maintain internal component PCell and automated circuit layout libraries
• Interface with designers, test engineers, packaging engineers, and foundry team to define layout rules and component designs 
• Implement physical verification checks of layouts, including DRC and LVS
• Develop detailed documentation of tapeouts and lead layout reviews with other team members 
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand circuit requirements and make recommendations to improve design, layout, and test workflows

You’d be a good fit with:

• Bachelor’s degree in Photonics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing processes and techniques
• Excellent programming and software skills, including development in an IDE, proficiency with version control software, shell scripting, and code documentation
• 2+ years of experience with Python-based mask layout software packages such as Luceda IPKISS, GDSFactory, or Klayout
  
  

You’d be a great fit with:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Photonics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years experience in generating layout files for complex semiconductor flows with custom elements, such as MEMS, integrated photonics, or superconducting circuits
• Past ownership of full-reticle tapeouts with commercial foundries
• Experience with commercial simulation, verification, and layout environments such as Synopsys, Cadence, and Ansys
• Familiarity with photonic and/or analog electronic device principles including design, test, and fabrication
• Proficiency in physical verification including DRC, LVS, and ERC
• Experience with semiconductor and/or photonic workflows for tapeout with commercial foundries
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A meticulous attention to detail and excellent track record of documenting requirements, implementation plan, and tracking progress
• Ability to work independently, prioritizing tasks and managing time effectively in a deadline-oriented environment

Location: The Fab Tapeout and Validation Team is a remote-friendly team and this role can be performed remotely or in-person at IonQ’s College Park, MD or Bothell, WA campuses. 
Travel: Up to 10%
Job ID: 1303

The approximate base salary range for this position is $110,336 - $144,459.  The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer for Application Engineering. As a Sr Software Engineer on the Applications Engineer team, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to deliver real-world applications and value from the leap forward in computing enabled by quantum technology. 

We don't just build the world's best quantum computers - we apply cutting edge quantum computing tools to real world problems. Until now, our team of Applications Scientists have been building prototypes, working closely with our customers. Our new department, Applications Engineering, will ultimately help transform proven quantum computing use-cases pioneered by our scientists into production applications, making those innovations available to more people and businesses by packaging and deploying these tools as SaaS applications.

But first, we must mature existing proof-of-concept quantum code into production grade applications. As a hands-on team lead for a new engineering team, you will work on enhancing developer experience (DevEx) by applying best practices to research-grade code. You will also set up CI / CD pipelines, software packing tools, and pre/post flight tests for new algorithms as they go into deployment. Where possible you will also be in charge of optimizing and parallelizing traditional algorithms, to reduce pre-processing and post-processing workloads. You will spearhead a new team taking newly invented quantum applications, and turning them into well defined modules of reliable SaaS applications. Think of it as being a forward-deployed engineer for quantum computing applications; the strongest candidates will be generalists with wide-ranging interests. 

This team will work closely with Developer Tools, Infrastructure, and Product teams to solve problems by choosing the right technologies, and standardizing and automating those solutions. The right engineer will be comfortable working on refining chemistry simplification via Quantum Computing tool one quarter, and turning a novel quantum topology solver into a service the next - and love pair programming with scientists. They’ll bring the quantum expertise; you bring the deep and broad experience in classical programming.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Application scientists to help deliver cutting-edge solutions for customers
• Elevate Applications code quality generally through architectural review, code review, standards, and best practices
• Improve Applications pace of delivery by creating CI / CD pipelines and other packaging automation, as well as test infrastructure and coverage
• Help productize computing code, especially improving data processing in pre-quantum and post-quantum processing steps
• Work closely with peers in Applications, Developer Tools, and Product teams to share best practices and feedback on internal tools
• Reporting to the Director of Application Engineering, help hire and mentor developers on the team

You’d be a good fit with:

• 12+ years of experience as a backend or full-stack developer, preferably in Python or Golang
• 5+ years of experience in setting up and maintaining CI / CD pipelines, in Github Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools
• 5+ years of experience in C/C++ or Rust
• 3+ years of experience in Docker, k8s, or similar containerization technologies
• A track record of shipping containerized applications that solve real business problems
• Previous work in scientific computing, quantum computing, or a related field
• Daily usage of augmented coding tools like Claude or Gemini 

You’d be a great fit with:

• 5+ years of experience in scientific computing, especially with data analysis using numpy, pandas, or similar
• Experience in HPC or performance optimization
• Experience in converting traditional algorithms into CUDA, OpenMP workflows, or similar parallelization experience
• Experience with workflow orchestration engines like Airflow, Dagster, or Temporal

Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from our office in Bothell, WA; College Park, MD; or Boulder, CO
Travel: 5% for quarterly travel for collaboration 
Job ID:  1312

The approximate base salary range for this position is $192,979 - $252,659. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity.

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
• 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!
• 13+ years experience in software engineering
• 5+ years experience of open source contributions
• 2+ years experience with Slurm or other HPC batch schedulers (LSF, PBS, GridEngine, etc.) and/or other HPC technologies
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or Microk8s
• Familiarity with MPI or other multiprocessing schemes
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools (Argo Workflows, Kubeflow)
• Significant experience with system languages like C/C++ or Go, and advanced scripting in Python
• Established experience in Linux operating system, environment, and tools

You’d be a great fit with:

• 15+ years experience in software engineering
• 10+ years experience of making open source contributions  
• 5+ years in High Performance Compute cluster management
• 2+ years experience as an open source project maintainer with an active community
• Expert-level knowledge of Fortran and/or C
• Familiarity with quantum software stacks like MQSS or OpenQSE
• Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks like Ray or Dask
• Experience with GPU programming models such as CUDA (or even better: CUDA Quantum)
• Expert analysis skills in areas like statistical testing, modeling and general optimization
• Knowledge of one or more domains of computational physics (PDEs, n-body, large-dimension integration, stochastic systems, ...)
• Familiarity with common machine learning frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science

Location: This is a hybrid role based at our headquarters in College Park, MD or 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.