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Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration

Oxford Ionics • Wytham, Oxford

Salary
£58k – £58k
Posted
5 November 2026
Work mode
Full-time
Sponsor match
high
Skilled WorkerWorker (A rating)
Role overview

Oxford Ionics is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration in Wytham, a full-time engineering role. The advertised salary is £58k – £58k. Oxford Ionics holds an active licence on the UK Home Office register of sponsors for the Skilled Worker route, which means it can sponsor a visa for this hire if it chooses to.

We are looking for a highly technical Staff Software Engineer to join our System Orchestration team in System Software at Oxford Ionics. In this role, you will be responsible for building and operating the software that keeps our systems calibrated, decides what they do next and keeps the record of what they did, contributing to the team's mission of keeping our quantum computers running useful work around the clock. The trapped-ion quantum computers we are building will control 10,000 ions wit…
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  • Employer: Oxford Ionics — confirmed licensed sponsor
  • Visa route: Skilled Worker
  • Advertised salary: £58k – £58k
  • How this salary compares: about 23% above the £46,716 median across 1,073 engineering roles with published salaries on FindSponsorJobs
  • Location: Wytham, Oxford · Full-time
  • Posted: 5 November 2026
  • How we verify sponsors: employers are matched against the UK Home Office register of licensed sponsors — read our methodology.
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