Senior Software Engineer, Physics and Optimization at IonQ in College Park, MD

Responsibilities:

• Closely collaborating with experimental physicists to optimize and automate calibration of physical parameters and devices
• Writing code used to run physical experiments, control optomechanical devices and manipulate hardware servos
• Writing device drivers and interacting with low-level firmware via multiple communication protocols (UDP, serial, AXI, etc)
• Contributing to technical documentation and code reviews
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Required Skills/Education:

• Bachelors degree or higher in Physics, Electrical Engineering, or relevant field and/or experience
• 5+ yrs of backend software engineering experience (device I/O, concurrent programming, algorithms and data structures, API design)
• Expert data analysis skills in areas such as statistical testing, modeling and classical optimization, machine-learning
• Control theory implementations (PID implementation and tuning, parameter estimation, adaptive filters, optimization)
• NodeJS, Python (Scipy, Numpy), Go
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Desired Skills/Education:

• Rust, C or C++
• Microservices
• Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science
• Performance profiling