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# Staff Software Engineer - HPC Integration

- **Company:** IonQ, Inc.
- **Location:** Bothell, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $187,358.0 - $245,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Linux, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Multiprocessing, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, High Performance Computing, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Dask, Slurm, Docker
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5291917e-3324-464d-b045-12bfb43d87c1

## About the Role

* 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
 * 2+ years experience with Slurm or other HPC batch schedulers (LSF, PBS, GridEngine, HTCondor, etc.) and/or other HPC technologies
 * Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes
 * Familiarity with MPI or other multiprocessing schemes
 * Significant experience with systems languages like C/C++ or Go, plus proficiency in Python
 * Significant experience with the Linux ecosystem

You'd be a great fit with:

 * 15+ years experience in software engineering
 * 5+ years experience with open source contributions
 * 2+ years experience as an open source project maintainer with an active community
 * 5+ years with High Performance Compute cluster management
 * Experience with workflow orchestration tools
 * Familiarity with quantum software stacks like MQSS or OpenQSE
 * Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks like Ray or Dask
 * Exposure to quantum physics and/or quantum information science

## Description

* 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
 * Collaborate across teams and communicate with executive leadership
 * 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


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