Senior Staff Orchestration Engineer

Senior Staff Orchestration Engineer

Bothell, Washington, United States

IonQ, Inc. 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, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense.

In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance. Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space.

IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

This role is based at our Bothell, WA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Up to 10%, domestic and international travel.

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. We're building a cloud service that lets customers combine quantum and classical computation seamlessly, where the classical can be either general-purpose or high-performance computing (HPC). As a Senior Staff Software Engineer leading our hybrid execution efforts, you'll define and build the platform that makes hybrid quantum-classical workloads easy to write, extend, and run in production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of our Hosted Hybrid Service, partnering closely with product management to define the product and validate it
• Define the execution model for the hybrid service — how quantum-classical workloads are defined, how they can be extended, and how customers specify HPC computation when it's needed
• Drive the infrastructure strategy for the classical compute — both HPC and non-HPC — that backs hybrid jobs, in partnership with our cloud infrastructure team
• Build and maintain a library of reusable quantum workloads for customers and internal teams to build on
• Establish best practices for code development, quality assurance, documentation, and continuous integration and deployment
• Collaborate across HPC, Cloud, and Product teams, and communicate with executive leadership
• Mentor junior staff members; we'll ultimately be building a team around you!

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
• Experience designing, building, and operating cloud-hosted services or APIs that external customers depend on
• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
• Experience defining extensible service or function models (e.g. plugin architectures or function-as-a-service)
• Experience designing developer-facing libraries or SDKs used by external customers

You'd be a great fit with:

• 15+ years experience in software engineering
• Experience with hybrid quantum-classical computing frameworks or quantum SDKs
• Experience integrating cloud services with HPC infrastructure
• Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science

The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range.

Wage Transparency:

$200,698 - $287,791 USD

Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the…