Senior Electronics Engineer
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£52,000
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SOC 2124 (96% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £52,000, and Oxford Ionics is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
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| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2124 Electronics engineers Most likely code | £36,400 | £41,600 | £46,800 | £52,000 |
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About the role
The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Electronics Engineer to join our Reliability Engineering team at IonQ. In this role, you will be responsible for finding, root-causing, and permanently resolving electronics and control hardware issues on our operational trapped-ion quantum computers, contributing to the team's mission of improving fleet uptime and driving down the operational cost of our commercial and development systems.
You'll play an important part in owning the full lifecycle of electrical reliability fixes — from identifying a real-world bottleneck through to standardizing the resulting fix into every future build — working closely with Operations, Science, Manufacturing, and Engineering to keep our quantum systems running reliably and effectively.
Responsibilities:
In this position, you will work on root-causing, designing, and deploying electronics system design fixes across our fleet of quantum systems, supporting the effective delivery of reliable, development and production hardware. You'll have the opportunity to drive system upgrades, standardize control and drive electronics across systems, and build the observability that catches problems before they cause downtime, contributing directly to the success of the Reliability Engineering team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Triage & root cause: Actively monitor, root-cause, and prioritize electrical, control-system, and drive-electronics issues on live systems based on severity and impact to uptime and performance.
- Solution development: Design, prototype, build, and test electrical fixes — spanning schematic capture, PCB layout, and board- and system-level test — taking solutions from concept through to permanent integration.
- Reliability upgrade leadership: Drive electrical workstreams for major fleet-wide upgrades (e.g. control-hardware consolidation, drive-electronics standardization, remote telemetry/monitoring for laser and system health) to reduce variance and downtime across systems.
Requirements:
To be successful, you will need strong foundations in analogue, RF, and mixed-signal electronics design, experience with the Altium PCB toolset, familiarity with RF concepts and confidence working directly on operational hardware under time pressure. We're looking for someone who can translate a system-level reliability problem into a concrete engineering solution, work across Operations, Science, and Engineering to get it deployed safely, and document it so it sticks.
You'd be a great fit with:
- Analogue and mixed-signal electronics: strong practical experience designing and debugging op-amp circuits, low-noise amplifiers, filters, ADC/DAC modules, grounding, shielding and common digital interfaces.
- Altium design control and documentation: strong experience managing evolving schematics and PCB designs in Altium, producing clear technical documentation, and establishing effective review, ERC/DRC, release and change-control processes.
- Fault-finding and electrical integration: able to diagnose power supplies, analogue circuits and control electronics, and develop reliable PCBs, adapters, connectors, breakout cables and harnesses.
- Stakeholder engagement and delivery: able to gather requirements, explain technical issues and trade-offs across different disciplines, and take solutions through testing, deployment and documentation.
- Bonus: familiarity with LVDS and FPGA-based control electronics, cryogenic or RF/microwave systems, and Python-based test automation or telemetry.
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Oxford Ionics, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Electronics engineers (SOC 2124) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~17k in sample- Middle half £41,080–63,180
- Median £48,672
- Going rate £52,000
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £36,400–46,800
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Oxford Ionics holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2124 going rate of £52,000. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.