Quantum Computing Jobs in Oxford

• Oxford
• Remote
• Director

Owns an annual new business and expansion quota selling Capella Data as a Service subscriptions, SAR imagery and analytics, tasking capacity and complete satellite systems to enterprise, defence and civil government accounts across EMEA. Runs long-cycle capital programmes alongside faster data subscriptions, responding to RFIs, RFPs and government tenders and forecasting in CRM.

CRM · AWS

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior

Hands-on staff engineering role building the control plane that schedules and prioritises quantum programs, arbitrates exclusive hardware access, streams results and records everything that ran across a fleet of trapped-ion quantum computers. Work spans Rust services, PostgreSQL persistence, crash recovery and scheduling frameworks, with deep diagnosis of live-system failures.

Rust · gRPC · REST +6

• Oxford
• Senior · manages people

Lead a team of three electronics engineers within the Systems team, acting as a player-coach with roughly 60% leadership and 40% hands-on design. Own the electronics roadmap for quantum systems, covering schematic capture, PCB layout, mixed-signal and high-speed digital design, and the transition from prototypes to rack-ready production hardware.

Altium · Jira · Smartsheet +7

• Kidlington
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Experimental AMO physicist role focused on inertial sensing, contributing to continuous beam atom sensors for navigation and a Bose-Einstein Condensate gravimetry platform. Day to day involves translating product requirements into atomic system designs, modelling and simulation, building and testing opto-mechanical, electronic and software systems, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers.

Bose-Einstein Condensate

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Customer-facing technical role translating defence and national security challenges into mathematical models, building prototypes on simulators, software stacks and probabilistic hardware. Applies optimisation, probabilistic inference and AI methods such as QUBO, Ising models and Bayesian networks, benchmarking against classical solvers, CPUs and GPUs. Leads projects from requirements capture to pilot within defence constraints including security classification and export control.

CPUs · GPUs

• Oxford
• On-site
• £39,424 – £47,779 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Builds machine learning models and digital twins of quantum devices to study how scaling affects the control and stability of quantum operations. Models the physical and control architecture to identify design bottlenecks and optimisation strategies, using simulators as a testbed for engineering trade-offs. Works with academic teams, industrial partners and national labs within the QCI3 initiative.

• Kidlington
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Experimental AMO physicist role focused on translating product requirements into atomic system designs for quantum RF sensor systems. Involves modelling, simulation, testing and integrating opto-mechanical systems, electronics and software into quantum devices, working closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers.

• Abingdon
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• £65,000 – £75,000 pa
• Senior

A technical leadership role in an established backend team building Modern C++ (C++17) software on Debian Linux that controls scientific instruments, coordinating pumps, valves, sensors and gauges. You own APIs used by the web GUI and customer scripts, write Python automated tests, run design reviews, and mentor less experienced engineers while working with scientists and product managers.

Debian Linux · WAMP · Modbus +5