Quantum computing jobs for software engineers in the United Kingdom

26 open roles for software engineers at 11 quantum companies in the United Kingdom. 18 of them are open to candidates of any nationality; the rest ask for citizenship or a government security check (export-controlled work). 1 mention relocation support.

Rebuilt 24 Oct 2026
open roles
26
companies
11
open to any nationality
69%
estimated median pay
$118k

Companies hiring

CompanyOpen rolesAny nationalityRelocation
IonQ80%
OQC5100%
Infleqtion3100%
Riverlane2100%
Pasqal2100%
QuEra Computing1100%
Universal Quantum1100%1
Quantinuum1100%
Quantum Motion1100%
Sydney Quantum Academy1100%
Nu Quantum1100%

Newest roles

Infleqtion

infleqtion.com
infleqtion.com • HQ: Louisville, Fairport, United States • Science & Engineering • Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • Sensors & Transducers • Quantum Computing Hardware • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NYSE: INFQ • Trust A • Hiring 56, 6 new
HQ: Louisville, Fairport, United States • Science & Engineering • Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • Sensors & Transducers • Quantum Computing Hardware • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2007 • NYSE: INFQ • Trust A • Hiring 56, 6 new
Infleqtion is an American quantum technology company that builds products based on cold atom physics, including neutral-atom quantum computers, optical atomic clocks, quantum radio frequency receivers and inertial and gravity sensors for navigation where satellite signals are unavailable. Founded in 2007 as ColdQuanta and renamed Infleqtion in 2022, it supplies research institutions, defense agencies and commercial customers and runs operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company is headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, United States.
Matthew Kinsella · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Ilan Hart · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Jason Hall · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Paul Lipman · Executive Officer · decision-maker
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 2 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Quantum Software Engineer - QEC

≈ $81k – $203k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (Kidlington, United Kingdom) • PhD • Full-Time
Machine Learning
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Verified live · 2 hours ago 10 days ago Hiring now · 89%

Quantum Software Engineer - Algorithms & Applications

≈ $77k – $190k per year (Estimated) • Equity • In office (Kidlington, United Kingdom) • PhD • Full-Time
Python
Python
SQLAlchemy
FastAPI
PyQt
Databases
PostgreSQL
DevOps
GitHub
GCP
CI/CD
AWS
Quantum
Qiskit
Cirq
+3
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IonQ

ionq.com
ionq.com • HQ: College Park, United States • Quantum Computing Hardware • Est. 2015 • NYSE: IONQ • Trust B • Hiring 126, 16 new
HQ: College Park, United States • Quantum Computing Hardware • Est. 2015 • NYSE: IONQ • Trust B • Hiring 126, 16 new
Chris Monroe and Jungsang Kim created IonQ in 2015 after over 25 years of research. Their preliminary investment amounted to $2 million from the University of Maryland and Duke University, which enabled them to develop trapped ion quantum computers. Within a few years, they constructed two of the most accurate quantum computers in the world, garnering additional funding from Amazon Web Services, Google's GV, and NEA.
David Moehring · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Christopher Monroe · Executive Officer · decision-maker
Jungsang Kim · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Andrew Schoen · Director
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 8 days ago Likely open · 63%

Staff Platform Engineer

≈ $91k – $190k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Staff+ • Hybrid (Oxford, United Kingdom) • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required • Staff
Rust
Python
DevOps
Helm
OpenTelemetry
OpenTofu
K3s
ArgoCD
GitHub Actions
Grafana
Terraform
Linux
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Quantum
IonQ
+6
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Verified live · 3 hours ago 9 days ago Likely open · 62%

Software Engineer, Non-Realtime Controllers

≈ $68k – $166k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid (Oxford, United Kingdom) • Nationals only • Citizenship or vetting required
Rust
DevOps
TCP/IP
Quantum
IonQ
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Pasqal

pasqal.com
pasqal.com • HQ: Palaiseau, France • Science & Engineering • Hardware • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • Est. 2019 • Hiring 8, 1 new
HQ: Palaiseau, France • Science & Engineering • Hardware • Quantum Computing Hardware • Quantum Science & Computing • Est. 2019 • Hiring 8, 1 new
Pasqal is a French quantum computing company that designs and builds innovative processors using neutral-atom technology. Headquartered in Palaiseau, France, the company uses optical tweezers to trap and manipulate individual atoms, creating highly scalable and programmable quantum systems. By providing advanced hardware and cloud-accessible software, it empowers global enterprises and researchers to solve complex computational problems in optimization, chemistry, and artificial intelligence.
Stéphane Rougeot · Directeur Général · decision-maker
Loïc Henriet · Président de SAS · decision-maker
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 10 days ago Hiring now · 83%

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

≈ $70k – $141k per year (Estimated) • Senior • In office (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Istio
SLURM
GitOps
Service Mesh
HPC
GitLab
Grafana
DNS
Ansible
IAM
GitHub
Terraform
Linux
GCP
Kubernetes
CI/CD
AWS
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
Least Privilege
ISO 27001
+12
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 22 days ago Likely open · 59%

IT Security Engineer

≈ $81k – $148k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior • English
Python
DevOps
Ansible
Terraform
IAM
CI/CD
Cybersecurity
Threat Modeling
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OQC

oqc.tech
oqc.tech • HQ: Reading, United Kingdom • Quantum Science & Computing • Quantum Computing Hardware • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 30, 5 new
HQ: Reading, United Kingdom • Quantum Science & Computing • Quantum Computing Hardware • 201-500 employees • Est. 2017 • Startup • Trust A • Hiring 30, 5 new
OQC, or Oxford Quantum Circuits, is a quantum computing company headquartered at Thames Valley Science Park near Reading that builds superconducting quantum computers based on its patented Coaxmon architecture and dual-rail Dimon qubit, offered as a cloud service and deployed in commercial data centres. Founded in 2017 by Peter Leek from his University of Oxford research group, it has delivered three generations of systems, has sites in London, Tokyo, New York and Spain, and closed a Series C round of about 260 million pounds. It hires quantum, hardware, FPGA and embedded software engineers, algorithm researchers, cleanroom and nanofabrication technicians and finance and operations staff.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 10 days ago Hiring now · 90%

Associate Quantum Software Engineer

≈ $45k – $103k per year (Estimated) • Junior • In office (Reading, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Junior
Python
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Verified live · 1 hour ago 16 days ago Hiring now · 76%

IT Support Engineer (6 month FTC)

≈ $34k – $64k per year (Estimated) • In office (Reading, United Kingdom) • Contractor
Bash
PowerShell
DevOps
Windows
Linux
Windows Server
Ubuntu
Azure
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
GDPR
Management
ITIL
+2
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Nu Quantum

nu-quantum.com
nu-quantum.com • HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Quantum Computing Hardware • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 8, 1 new
HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Quantum Computing Hardware • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 8, 1 new
Nu Quantum is a Cambridge company founded in 2018 that builds networking hardware for quantum computers. Its interconnects and control systems link separate quantum processors into larger machines and support quantum data centre architectures. The company spun out of the Cavendish Laboratory.
No named decision-maker yet.
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Verified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsorship 1 month ago Hiring now · 74%

Systems Software Engineer

≈ $68k – $168k per year (Estimated) • In office (Cambridge, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Rust
C++
Python
Dart
Mobile
Flutter
DevOps
CI/CD
gRPC
Linux
Management
Agile
+1
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Riverlane

riverlane.com
riverlane.com • HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Quantum Science & Computing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Startup • Hiring 8, 1 new
HQ: Cambridge, United Kingdom • Quantum Science & Computing • 51-200 employees • Est. 2016 • Startup • Hiring 8, 1 new
Riverlane is a Cambridge company that builds the error correction stack for quantum computers, including the Deltaflow system and the open source Deltakit software platform. It works with quantum hardware makers and hires software engineers, error correction researchers, embedded firmware engineers and product managers. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom.
No named decision-maker yet.
No careers mailbox known
Verified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 3 months ago Long shot · 13%

Software Tech Lead

$120k – $154k per year • Lead • In office (Cambridge, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
C++
Python
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Open 140 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago Visa sponsor 4 months ago Long shot · 10%

Senior Software Engineer (Open Source)

$96k – $120k per year • Senior • In office (Cambridge, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Rust
C++
Python
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Skills these roles ask for

Python 14Rust 12Linux 9IonQ 8CI/CD 7Kubernetes 7Terraform 6C++ 5Ansible 5Rest API 5gRPC 5SLURM 5AWS 4Bash 3Configuration Management 3IAM 3

Where the roles are

Oxford 8London 4Reading 4Cambridge 3Harwell 2Kidlington 2Haywards Heath 1Broomfield 1

Other fields in the United Kingdom

Questions

Can a foreigner apply for these roles?

18 of the 26 roles here state no citizenship or security-check demand. A role that does - export-controlled quantum hardware and cryptography work often does - says so in its advert, and the card marks it.

Which quantum companies hire most?

IonQ (8), OQC (5), Infleqtion (3), Riverlane (2), Pasqal (2).

Which employers count as quantum companies?

Companies whose main business is quantum technology - quantum computer makers (superconducting, trapped-ion, neutral-atom, photonic, spin qubits), quantum software and algorithm companies, quantum sensing and communication, and the makers of their control electronics, lasers and cryogenics - and every role whose title names quantum work at any employer.

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Source: 26 live postings on employers' careers boardsUpdated 24 Oct 2026MethodologyJSONCC BY-SA 4.0