Embedded DevOps Engineer

Location

Infleqtion has offices in the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. This is a full-time position split between our Kidlington, Oxford office and the National Quantum Computing Centre, Harwell. Work from home permitted up to 2 days per week based on business needs and manager approval.

Candidate will need to be able to travel independently to these locations, as required.

As part of our strategy for growth at Infleqtion UK, we are expanding our engineering team and recruiting an Embedded Dev Ops engineer .

For this role, you will bring a mix of technical skills, problem-solvingabilityand effective communication, playing a pivotal role indevelopmentvelocityand reliability for our quantum research, sensordevelopmentandproductionisationofcutting-edge systems.

This role involves a combination of development and maintenance of robust testing and deployment processes including hardware-in-the-loop testing andbuild pipelines for integrated software, firmware andgateware.

The role will be instrumental in defining our version control, auditing and engineering procedures around delivering production software for deployed systems.

Additionally, the role will involve somemaintenanceof physical on-site hardware, network management, server administration to support our in-house research labs.

The successful candidate will ideallypossessa solid technical background in both systems engineering and software development.

• Software Deployment:
  
  Manage containers and orchestrate CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment, robusttestingandtraceableupdates.
• Hardware-in-the-loop configuration:
  Support both the hardware and software teams by managing configurations of multiple networked systems being used for development, testing &commissioning.
• Infrastructure as code:
  Design, develop, and maintain
  
  IaCsolutions and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
• Software security:
  
  Define and own software security procedures that govern secure code development and deployment for software, firmware andgateware.
• 'System-down'planning and response. Ownlab system management and coordinate response to efficientlymaintainhigh up-times. Plan and implement system backup policies to ensure swift recovery.
• Collaboration and Documentation:
  
  Collaborate with both software developers and hardware engineers in a lab environment, documentingprocessesand system configurations for ongoing projects.

• Embedded Dev Ops experience:
  Demonstrable experience developing andmaintainingCI/CD, build,testand release processes for systems that combine software with embedded hardware,firmware or FPGAgateware.
• Linux and automation expertise:
  Strong Linux systems administration skills, including networking, permissions, servicemanagementand troubleshooting, together withproficiencyin automation and scripting using Python,Bashor similar languages.
• Configuration and release management:
  Practical experience with Git-based development workflows, automated testing, artifactrepositoriesand versioned releases, with an understanding of how tomaintaintraceability between source code, build environments, deployedsoftwareand physical hardware configurations.
• Infrastructure and deployment tooling:
  Hands-on experience with container technologies and infrastructure or configuration management tools, such as Docker,Podman, Ansible, Terraform or Nix, and the ability to apply these tools to both server infrastructure and networked laboratory systems.

• Experience designing or operating hardware-in-the-loop test environments and automated test rigs.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux, cross-compilation tool chains, RTOS environments or FPGA development and deployment workflows.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such asOpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana or Loki.
• Knowledge of secure software supply-chain practices, including dependency scanning, artifact signing, software bills of materials, secrets management and vulnerability management.
• Experience administering laboratory or industrial networks, including VLANs, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, firewalls and remote-access systems.
• Familiarity with release, change-control or quality-management processes used for production, regulated or safety-critical systems.
• Experience supporting on-premises servers, virtualisation platforms, backupsystemsand disaster-recovery procedures.
• Previous experience working closely with multidisciplinary teamscomprisingsoftware, electronics, FPGA,system sand research engineers.

• A minimum of4years’Dev Ops experience workingwithembeddeddevices.
• Proven experience working with complex systems consisting ofa number ofnetworkednodes, and including embedded systems.
• Experience with production grade systems.
• Professional-level verbal and written communication skills, able to effectively share information with technical and non-technical staff.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or other related field, (or equivalent), or extensive experience.
• Baseline…