Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer - Hardware Test

About the role

IonQ, Inc. is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier, delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. Our newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, helps customers and partners achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in various fields.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deploying test automation software to a distributed fleet of testbeds.
• Develop and manage infrastructure for testbed provisioning, remote management, and monitoring.
• Contribute to testbed design and hardware selection decisions to better support team objectives.
• Implement and enforce best practices for security, compliance, and observability across the test platform.
• Serve as the point of contact and subject-matter expert for infrastructure, collaborating with the broader organization's SRE and DevOps teams to ensure alignment on tools and practices.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define infrastructure requirements and deliver robust, scalable solutions.
• Solve complex and non-routine infrastructure problems, evaluating alternatives and considering tradeoffs between cost, quality, and speed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Solid understanding of networking, security best practices, and system administration in a Linux environment.
• Strong programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python or Go.
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible and provisioning tools like iPXE.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing infrastructure for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing or electronics test labs.
• Experience with deploying and managing software at remote or third-party sites (e.g., contract manufacturers).
• Solid cloud development/deployment experience (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with cross-platform deployment automation (Linux, Windows).
• Experience with bare-metal provisioning for remote/headless systems using technologies like PXE, Kickstart, or Preseed.
• Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Solid knowledge of regulations that may be applicable to the teams' responsibilities (e.g., ISO 9001, ITAR).
• Knowledge of protocols and services used in distributed systems, such as gRPC, MQTT, or other message brokers.

Compensation & Benefits

The approximate base salary range for this position is $151,756 - $198,688. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site.

Location

This role will work onsite at our office located in Bothell, WA.

Travel

Up to 10%