Senior Staff SDN Control Plane Lead - Quantum Networking

IonQ(1 month ago)

Bothell, WA, United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$194,852 - $255,112Engineering

About this role

IonQ is hiring a Senior Staff SDN Control Plane Lead to design the centralized controller (the “brain”) for its quantum network, managing high-fidelity entanglement resources in real time. The role involves solving path-calculation and advanced scheduling problems for time-dependent resource requests and ensuring high-availability control plane behavior. This technical leadership position contributes to building scalable control software for cutting-edge quantum networking hardware.

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Required Skills

SDN Control
Network Orchestration
Scheduling Algorithms
Path Calculation
Resource Reservation
Conflict Prevention
Hardware Configuration
State Recovery
Topology Management
Network Telemetry

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Qualifications

Master's in Computer Science or Related Field

About IonQ

ionq.com

IonQ builds trapped‑ion quantum computers and full‑stack systems designed to tackle complex computational problems. Their platform combines high‑fidelity trapped‑ion qubits, control hardware, and developer tools to deliver quantum processing via cloud integrations and APIs. IonQ targets applications in chemistry, optimization, machine learning, and finance while working with enterprises, researchers, and cloud providers to make quantum computing broadly accessible.