Infrastructure Engineer, Hardware & Networks

4+ years in infrastructure, network or platform engineering, with substantial hands-on bare-metal work

Deep Ansible experience: roles, inventories, idempotent design, and how to test and structure a real playbook estate

Solid network engineering across layers 2 and 3: VLANs, subnetting, routing protocols such as BGP or OSPF, link aggregation, firewall and ACL policies

Strong Linux systems administration and scripting (Bash, Python), including kernel, drivers, cgroups and system services

Infrastructure-as-code beyond configuration management (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi or equivalent) and a Git-based change workflow

Production Kubernetes experience, ideally on hardware you also own

Bare-metal provisioning with tools such as MaaS, Metal3, OpenStack Ironic, Tinkerbell, xCAT or equivalent

Working knowledge of firmware, BIOS, and BMC management via IPMI or Redfish

Core network services in production: DNS, DHCP, NTP, PXE

Comfortable in a data centre or comms room: racking, structured cabling, optics and transceivers, out-of-band management

Troubleshooting that crosses layers, from a marginal optic to a route that never propagated to a pod that will not schedule, and the communication skills to explain it to teams who are not networking or infrastructure specialists

Experience on an on-call rotation supporting production services

Clear technical writing and attention to detail

Low-latency or high-throughput fabrics: 100/400G Ethernet, InfiniBand, RoCE

EKS Anywhere experience

Precision time distribution (PTP, White Rabbit or similar)

Network automation and source-of-truth tooling (NetBox, Nornir, containerlab, Batfish)

Vendor platforms such as Arista EOS, Cisco NX-OS, Juniper Junos, Dell OS10

HPC, scientific or research computing environments, including batch schedulers such as Slurm

Cluster benchmarking and performance validation, and the automation around it

Monitoring and telemetry (Prometheus, Grafana, syslog, Filebeat)

PCIe accelerator hardware (FPGA or GPU) knowledge, including firmware and driver management

Container runtimes beyond Docker (Podman, Singularity, Enroot)

Go or Rust alongside Python

Repeatable build-out of many identical sites or clusters, including remote and air-gapped ones

Laboratory or scientific instrument networks

Curiosity about quantum computing (no physics degree required)

SQC is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse perspectives and experiences, and encourage applications from candidates who may not meet every listed requirement. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can contribute, we encourage you to apply.

This position may require access to export-controlled information or technology. Employment may be subject to applicable export control laws and may require eligibility assessment based on factors such as nationality, citizenship, or residency, and, where necessary, obtaining relevant export licenses or approvals.

SQC was founded by renowned physicist and materials scientist Michelle Simmons, who pioneered the field of atomic electronics, including the development of the world’s first single-atom transistor and the first integrated circuit built with atomic precision. Our Chair, Simon Segars, former CEO of Arm, is a leader in the semiconductor industry and was instrumental in developing the processors that powered the mobile computing revolution.

As a full-stack company with in-house QPU manufacturing, SQC can design, produce and test new quantum chips in under a week, enabling rapid iteration and a decisive advantage in the race to build the world’s first commercial-scale quantum computer.

SQC is a high-accountability environment built on a simple principle: Every Atom Counts. If you’re looking to play a meaningful role in building the next frontier of computing, we’d love to hear from you.