Staff Platform Engineer

Location: Oxford, England, UK

Working pattern: Hybrid

We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer to join the Quantum System Infrastructure team at IonQ, based in our Oxford office. In this role, you will be responsible for the platform that our engineering and science teams use to build, test and deliver quantum systems to customers, contributing to the team's mission of applying DevSecOps principles to deliver reliable, secure and observable infrastructure, on-site and in the cloud.

As a Staff Engineer you will play a leading role in shaping the clusters, pipelines, monitoring and remote development environments that support our work in building the world's most advanced quantum systems. You'll have the opportunity to drive meaningful work in a unique environment, operating alongside the physicists and engineers who build those systems, and see vacuum chambers, cryostats and lasers in action on site.

In this position, you will build and run the infrastructure behind our quantum systems, on-site and in the cloud, so the teams who build them can ship changes quickly and safely. You'll have the opportunity to shorten the time from a code change to a running quantum system, contributing directly to the delivery of quantum systems to our customers. As a senior member of the team, you will take on central roles in strategic projects for the Platform team, and will lead on defining, driving and implementing them.

You'll work with a wide range of partners and internal customers across IonQ's locations: physicists, lab technicians, firmware and software engineers, IT, product management and production SRE. You'll talk to them, see where they get stuck and fix the cause.

Key responsibilities include:

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