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Senior Staff Orchestration Engineer

ionq Bothell, Washington, United States


No Relocation

Posted: August 5, 2026

Job Description

Location: This role is based at our Bothell, WA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely.
Travel: Up to 10%, domestic and international. 
Job ID:
1753

The Role: 

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.

Additional Content

Location: This role is based at our Bothell, WA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely.
Travel: Up to 10%, domestic and international. 
Job ID:
1753

The Role: 

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.