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Senior Account Executive, DaaS & Satellite Systems
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Washington, D.C. area preferred; Remote (U.S.) considered, with travel Travel: Up to 40%, domestic and international. Job ID: 1905 The Role: IonQ is hiring a Senior Account Executive to drive U.S. Federal sales of Capella Data as a Service (DaaS) and satellite systems. You will own the full sales cycle across an assigned portfolio of defense, intelligence, and federal civilian accounts — building pipeline, shaping requirements, navigating acquisition pathways, and closing awards for SAR imagery and analytics subscriptions, tasking capacity, and complete satellite systems. Partnering closely with Field Engineers and the capture, proposal, and contracts teams, you will connect space-based sensing to mission outcomes and expand IonQ’s footprint across the federal market. This role is for a proven federal seller who understands how programs are funded and bought, and who can turn mission needs into durable, multi-year contracts. Responsibilities: - Own and exceed an annual bookings quota for Capella DaaS subscriptions, tasking capacity, and satellite system sales across an assigned territory of DoD, Intelligence Community, and federal civilian agency accounts. - Build and manage a qualified pipeline through account planning, executive outreach, and relationship development with program offices, mission users, contracting officers, and budget decision-makers . - Shape opportunities early — influencing requirements and responding to sources-sought notices and RFIs — and position IonQ on the right contract vehicles, including GSA MAS, IDIQs, OTAs, SBIR/STTR pathways, and direct awards. - Lead win strategy for RFPs and government solicitations in partnership with Field Engineers and the capture, proposal, pricing, and contracts teams, driving pursuits through to award. - Develop teaming relationships with prime contractors, systems integrators, and channel partners to expand access to programs and accelerate deal flow. - Maintain accurate forecasts and pipeline hygiene in the CRM, giving leadership clear visibility into deal status, risks, and budget-cycle timing. - Bring federal market intelligence and customer requirements back to product, engineering, and mission solutions teams to inform the roadmap, and represent IonQ at defense, intelligence, and geospatial industry events. Requirements: - 8+ years of quota-carrying sales experience with U.S. defense, intelligence, or federal civilian agencies, with a track record of exceeding targets in geospatial data, earth observation, satellite systems, defense technology, or adjacent data/SaaS markets. - Demonstrated success closing complex, multi-year federal deals, including data subscription or as-a-service offerings and hardware or systems sales. - Deep understanding of federal acquisition and budgeting, including the FAR/DFARS, the PPBE cycle, and contract vehicles such as GSA MAS, IDIQs, and OTAs. - Established network across DoD, the Intelligence Community, and federal civilian mission customers (e.g., NGA, NRO, U.S. Space Force, NOAA), along with relationships with relevant prime contractors and integrators. - Working knowledge of remote sensing and SAR value propositions, with the ability to articulate technical capabilities in mission terms and partner with Field Engineers on deeper technical scoping. - Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive presence; bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; willingness to travel up to 50%. Preferred Qualifications: - Active U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI preferred), or eligibility to obtain one. - Prior experience selling commercial satellite imagery, SAR data, or geospatial analytics to federal customers. - Experience introducing an emerging technology into new federal programs, including helping establish new budget lines or programs of record. - Military, Intelligence Community, or government program-office background. - Familiarity with structured sales qualification methodologies (e.g., MEDDPICC) and enterprise CRM tools such as Salesforce. The expected OTE for this role is $240K The total compensation package includes base, commission and equity. A range of benefit options can be found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $115,000 - $144,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
NPI Manufacturing Engineer - Control Electronics
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role is based onsite at our headquarters in College Park, MD. Travel: Up to 10% Job ID: 1870 The Role: We are looking for a Manufacturing Engineer specializing in New Product Introduction (NPI) for our Control Electronics subsystems. As an NPI Engineer, you'll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will serve as a critical link between our design teams, in-house production, and external manufacturing partners. Your primary focus will be to own all control electronics subsystems from an NPI and Manufacturing Engineering perspective. You will work cross-functionally to improve designs, develop scalable manufacturing processes, and support the implementation of a robust NPI pipeline for our control electronics subsystem. Responsibilities : - Work with technicians and other engineers hands-on, building and testing prototype hardware, with an emphasis on the assembly and testing of electromechanical components. - Leverage expertise in New Product Introduction (NPI) to seamlessly transition our control electronics subsystems from prototype to production, optimizing for manufacturability, cost, and supply chain scalability - Collaborate with electrical and mechanical design engineers to provide Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Assembly (DFA), and Test (DFT) feedback, ensuring products are optimized for efficient manufacturing processes. - Engage in design reviews and the examination of deliverables necessary for a Technical Data Package for our electronics assemblies. - Develop process flows, breaking down large, complex assemblies into a logical part flow of subassemblies and sub-processes - Develop, improve, and document manufacturing processes for successfully manufacturing and testing control electronics hardware, including detailed assembly instructions, test procedures, and standard operating procedures. - Collaborate cross-functionally with design engineering, quality engineering, and supply chain teams to resolve manufacturing challenges. - Support system-level integration and bring-up of control electronics, including device configuration, loading control software and drivers, and troubleshooting hardware/software interface issues. - Apply Configuration Management best practices to hardware designs and manufacturing processes. Requirements: - A Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field. - A minimum of 3 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, with a focus on electronics assembly or testing in a low-volume, high-mix development environment. - Experience with the manufacturing, integration, and testing of systems containing sensitive analog and RF components (e.g., DACs/ADCs, RF electronics, etc.). - Demonstrated ability to creatively deliver electromechanical hardware in resource-constrained environments, valuable for innovative quantum computing solutions. - Direct hands-on manufacturing experience in physically building hardware through machining, fabrication, soldering, assembly, installation, etc. (Personal or extracurricular projects are a plus). - Experience developing comprehensive assembly instructions and other manufacturing documentation. - Experience in implementation, use or configuration of PLM systems. - A genuine interest and passion in manufacturing along with a strong desire to continuously learn. - Ability to act independently to uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of operational programs and factories and/or supplier health development. - Ability to be on-site daily. Preferred Qualifications: - Deep PCBA fabrication experience including prior work with or setup/modification/monitoring SMT processes. harnessing, soldering, crimping hands on build experience - Proficiency in CAD software for designing tooling and fixtures; familiarity with EDA/ECAD tools (e.g., Altium, OrCAD) is a strong plus. - Expertise in PCBA manufacturing processes (e.g., SMT, reflow, wave solder) and relevant quality standards (e.g., IPC-A-610, J-STD-001). - Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python) for test automation, device control, and basic modification of control software or drivers. - Experience transforming R&D prototypes into highly reproducible products. - Hands-on experience with electronic test equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, logic analyzers) and software tools for debugging system integration issues. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $102,400 - $153,600 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Spacecraft Hardware Technician
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. About Capella Capella, an IonQ company, spans national security, advanced sensing, and next-generation compute to deliver secure, mission-ready intelligence. Capella’s culture is built on collaboration, rigorous engineering, and a shared commitment to delivering solutions that strengthen global stability and security. Team members work side-byside with some of the most innovative minds in space systems, quantum-enabled technologies, and mission-critical operations. Capella values curiosity, resilience, and a willingness to tackle hard problems with precision and creativity. Capella welcomes and encourages applicants whose perspectives are historically underrepresented in technology, national security, and aerospace. No prior space experience is required. Diverse viewpoints strengthen Capella’s ability to innovate and deliver meaningful impact for partners worldwide. Location: This role is based onsite at our office in Louisville, CO. Travel: Up to 5% Job ID: 1952 The Role: The spacecraft hardware technician assembles, installs, tests, and inspects. spacecraft, or related components and subsystems. This role works from engineering drawings, work instructions, and quality standards to ensure every product meets strict safety, performance, and regulatory requirements. Responsibilities : - Assemble, install, and integrate mechanical, electrical, and/or structural components per work instructions, and schematics - Read and interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals, and specifications - Assist with functional tests, calibrations, and troubleshooting on systems and subassemblies - Conduct visual and dimensional inspections using precision tools (calipers, micrometers, torque wrenches, gauges) - Install and route wire harnesses - Document work accurately in work instructions - Identify and report nonconformances, and support corrective actions with Quality and Engineering - Maintain a clean, organized workspace in compliance with FOD (foreign object debris) and 5S practices - Follow all safety, environmental, and regulatory procedures - Support continuous improvement and, where applicable, mentor junior technicians Requirements: - High school diploma or GED - [4+] years of experience in aerospace, aviation, defense, or precision manufacturing - Ability to read and interpret blueprints, schematics, and technical documentation - Proficiency with hand tools, power tools, and precision measuring instruments - Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality - U.S. person status required for ITAR/EAR-controlled work Preferred Qualifications: - Associate degree or certificate in aviation maintenance, avionics, or a related technical field - IPC/WHMA-A-620 or J-STD-001 certification (for electronics/wiring roles) - Familiarity with AS9100 standards - Experience with ERP/MRO software Working Conditions: - Production floor, or lab environment; may include noise, fumes, and temperature variation - Overtime and weekend work as needed The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $68,000 - $102,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Staff Product Manager, Fleet Management
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: We are looking for a customer obsessed, systems minded product leader to build the vision and specifications for the software and tooling that will deliver the best quantum fleet management in the world, for IonQ and for our customers. As a Senior Staff Product Manager within IonQ's Quantum Computing product family, you will join a cross functional team whose mission is to build and deliver the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. In this role, you will own Fleet Management and the platform that enables it as a product offering. That covers telemetry and observability, remote management, incident response and planned service, together with integration into the commercial operations, deployment and logistics information and tools that let IonQ grow from per system, per site operations to high leverage, coordinated management of every system we deploy, wherever it lives. Fleet management is both a product area and part of what we sell. Once a system is delivered, on a customer site or in our own cloud, our managed service keeps it running for the life of the contract. Today that work is done well by skilled people, but the tooling behind it was not built to scale. You will turn it into a first class offering, where uptime is treated as a design requirement and is achieved through great tools rather than heroics. This is a global remit. As our fleet grows across North America, Europe and Asia, you will help us move to a follow the sun model, supporting systems from a small number of operations centres rather than placing people at every site. Responsibilities: You will start by treating the people who run and support our systems as your customers: internal and customer fleet operations, reliability, commercial operations, service and support. You will spend real time alongside them to learn how they work today, where the toil, blind spots and heroics are, and what good would look like for each of them, and you will build a strong point of view on what it takes to run a resilient, highly available global fleet of quantum computers. You will immerse yourself in IonQ's system architecture, control and classical infrastructure, data pipelines, build and maintenance motions, and the current state of our tooling. Working closely with resilience, operations and engineering leads, you will understand what is possible, what is already in flight and where the constraints sit, and you will turn a diffuse set of pains and desires into a clear vision and roadmap. From there, you will lead cross functional efforts to simplify, streamline and ship. Where we build, you will partner with SRE and engineering to define requirements, sequence work and land it. Where we buy, you will drive selection and rollout. Where the gap is process or communication, you will work with the PMO and the teams involved to improve it, and you will establish clear interfaces between Compute Products and the operations and commercial teams who depend on this tooling. You will instrument what you ship, using feedback, support volume, incident and availability data and resolution metrics to understand whether the tools are working and where to go next. You will also help feed what we learn about operability and maintainability back into how we design and ship the next hardware generation, and begin extending the platform to customers as they take on more of their own system operation. Key responsibilities include: - Build a deep understanding of how internal and customer fleet operations, reliability, service and support teams run our systems today, and where they need better tools - Define and own the vision and roadmap for fleet management across telemetry and observability, operator and back office tools, SLA, SLO and availability tracking, sparing and maintenance planning - Establish north star metrics for fleet health and operational effectiveness, and make them visible across the company - Lead build and buy decisions with SRE, engineering and the PMO, and set clear interfaces between Compute Products and the teams who depend on this tooling - Use incident, availability and support data to iterate, feed operability lessons into future hardware generations and extend the platform to customers Requirements: To be successful in this role, you will bring substantial experience in technical product management, ideally with direct ownership of internal platforms, operational tooling or infrastructure software. Most great product managers did something else first, and here we are especially interested in people whose earlier careers were in engineering, fleet or network operations, process engineering or systems engineering, so that they understand what operational data is for and how the day to day workflow really runs. You will be a high agency, high accountability product leader who brings your own energy to an ambiguous area and drives impact through persistence and adaptability. This is a product leadership role rather than an operations or programme management role: we want someone who thinks about fleet management as an offering and a book of work, not someone who carries out the hands on management themselves. You will have enough technical fluency to work directly with SREs and engineers on telemetry, process flows, data pipelines and API surfaces as first class products, and the empathy to sit shoulder to shoulder with the people who keep complex systems running. Experience of low volume, high complexity frontier technology, from R&D through to first deployments, will serve you well here. Communication matters a great deal in this role. You will need excellent written and verbal communication, with a proven ability to explain complex topics clearly to technical and non technical audiences, from engineering teams to company leadership and customers. You do not need a background in quantum computing; we care more about how you think, how you learn and how you lead. You’d be a great fit with: - A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research or a related technical field, or equivalent experience, with 12+ years in technical product management or equivalent roles - Product experience with private cloud deployments, scientific computing or high performance computing platforms, including their tools, users, business models and operational challenges - Experience building or scaling tooling for distributed, high value physical infrastructure, such as data centre or HPC operations platforms, DCIM or observability stacks, or remote field service for scientific instruments or connected hardware - Experience with AI tooling and workflows, both for rapid prototyping and for predictive, self healing or agentic product offerings - Experience taking internal tools through to customer facing products, familiarity with quantum computing or deep tech R&D, or experience leading and mentoring other product managers The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Manager, Resilience Engineering & Operation...
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: We are looking for a Senior Manager, Resilience Engineering & Operations to lead our Resilience Engineering and Operations team in Bothell, Washington. In this role, you will lead the team responsible for keeping IonQ's hosted quantum computers running reliably for customers, while improving resilience, performance, throughput and operational efficiency across the fleet. This is a technical leadership role, not a purely administrative one. You will lead a team of Operating Physicists, engage credibly with complex trapped ion systems, and use sound judgement to balance uptime, technical risk and long term improvement. You will work closely with engineering, physics and operations partners, and your team's insight will help shape how current and future systems are supported in the field. You will also play an important part in building our follow the sun operating model alongside colleagues in Europe. The function is still maturing, so this role needs someone comfortable building process, improving handoffs and creating clarity in a fast moving environment. Responsibilities: In this position, you will lead day to day fleet support, incident response, operational readiness and continuous improvement for IonQ's hosted quantum systems, as well as installation and maintenance of our internal systems at the College Park office. You will set direction for the team, support individual growth, and make sure the group can respond effectively to both immediate operational issues and longer term reliability challenges. You will work at the intersection of operations, engineering and physics, helping the team resolve complex issues, strengthen fleet performance and feed operational learning back into future designs, tooling and automation. Early on, you will put durable operating processes, metrics and prioritisation habits in place so the team runs with clear ownership and escalation. Key responsibilities include: - Lead, develop and grow a team of Operating Physicists who keep IonQ's commercial quantum computing fleet running reliably - Own team strategy and execution across fleet operations, incident response, operational readiness, deployment support and continuous improvement - Manage priorities, schedules, inventory, sparing and operational planning to support reliable system performance - Partner closely with engineers, physicists, senior leaders, vendors and customers to resolve issues and influence future designs - Define and track performance metrics for the team, building a culture of technical rigour, learning from incidents and strong operational judgement Requirements: To be successful, you will need a strong technical background in complex experimental, optical or physics led systems, alongside experience leading teams in operational or engineering environments. We are looking for someone who combines hands on technical credibility with sound people leadership, and who is comfortable creating structure where it does not yet fully exist. You should be able to identify issues quickly, work effectively across disciplines and help a team operate with clarity in a fast moving, highly technical business. Prior quantum computing experience is not required; we care more about how you lead, how you reason about reliability and how quickly you learn. The role is based on site in Bothell, and supporting a live fleet means the working pattern includes some on call responsibility. You’d be a great fit with: - A degree in Physics or a related field, or equivalent experience in a similarly deep technical environment such as optics or complex experimental systems - 5+ years of technical leadership and people management, including leading physicists, scientists, systems engineers or similar specialists - Direct experience in reliability engineering, resilience engineering, incident management or Learning From Incidents - Experience with automation, calibration, maintenance or operations management for complex technical systems, ideally in on call or service oriented environments - Strong communication and judgement, with experience balancing time, cost, quality and operational risk across functions The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Hiring Experience and Operations Manager
About SandboxAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. The Opportunity The SandboxAQ Recruiting team is an exceptional group of Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinators dedicated to scaling a team of elite scientists, engineers, and business leaders. We operate at the intersection of cutting-edge science and advanced AI, and we believe that finding and hiring the world's best talent requires a seamless, world-class experience at every touchpoint. We are seeking a Hiring Experience and Operations Manager to join our Recruiting team. This role is central to building a top-tier Recruitment Engine that blends advanced automation with human-centric design. You will own the holistic hiring experience across all audiences: candidates, interviewers, hiring managers, stakeholders, and the recruiting team itself. Thriving in our fast-paced environment means being agile and ready to tackle whatever comes your way. You will lead a team of Recruiting Coordinators and act as a strategic partner to a wide variety of stakeholders. You will pioneer the integration of AI to maximize operational efficiency, drive our talent branding, and roll up your sleeves to provide Recruiting support when needed. Why you’ll enjoy this job: - Drive Transformative Innovation: Modernize our recruiting operations by deploying advanced automation and AI-driven workflows to maximize team productivity and operational efficiency. - Total Ownership: Architect the end-to-end hiring experience, ensuring our ecosystem and workflows showcase the best of SandboxAQ in every candidate and stakeholder interaction. - Ecosystem Leadership: Lead a vital team of Recruiting Coordinators while acting as a trusted advisor to cross-functional leaders, driving holistic hiring enablement and elevating our overall talent strategy. Key Responsibilities - Recruiting Infrastructure and Analytics: Manage and optimize our recruiting tech stack to maximize the effectiveness, efficiency, and output of our team, and ensure our tooling streamlines workflows, captures high-fidelity hiring signals, and helps us measure the candidate experience and long-term quality of hire. - Holistic Experience & Enablement: Own the end-to-end hiring journey for all stakeholders, leveraging a world-class experience as a strategic advantage in our hiring efforts. Partner closely with HR, Finance, onboarding, and immigration to build seamless workflows and proactively triage complex operational issues. You will optimize processes from headcount planning to offer execution, manage interviewer load balancing, and spearhead enablement programs to ensure our teams assess talent effectively. - Team Leadership: Lead and grow a team of high-performing Recruiting Coordinators, ensuring the flawless execution of complex interview scheduling, travel arrangements, and on-site candidate experiences. Lead from the front by rolling up your sleeves to provide extra capacity across the team, whether that means stepping in as a Recruiter on open positions, resolving unique candidate issues, or assisting with high-profile coordination needs. - Employer Branding & Strategic Partnerships: Drive global talent branding and craft a compelling employer value proposition that positions SandboxAQ as a premier destination for elite frontier-tech talent. Spearhead our campus recruiting strategy and cultivate deep relationships with key universities and industry communities. Essential Skills & Experience - Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruiting Operations, or a similar function, with 1+ years of direct people management experience. - Operational Excellence & Tooling Strategy: Proven track record of optimizing recruitment workflows and tech stacks. Demonstrated ability to integrate automation or AI tools that drastically improve team efficiency and enhance candidate signal capture. - Data-Driven & Analytical Rigor: Strong analytical skills with the ability to measure hiring experience metrics, validate the effectiveness of evaluation criteria, manage interviewer load, and translate recruiting data into actionable insights on the quality of hire. - Exceptional Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Highly collaborative with a proven ability to build strong partnerships with HR, Finance, and hiring managers to streamline operations. Experience building and delivering interviewer training, hiring manager enablement, and structuring smooth, highly-calibrated assessment processes. - Startup Agility & Execution: A builder’s mindset with the willingness and capability to dive into the trenches and manage full-cycle recruiting—from sourcing to closing talent—whenever business capacity demands it. Highly Desired Skills & Experience - Frontier Technology and/or Startup Experience: Prior experience navigating the high-velocity, ambiguous landscape of venture-backed deep-tech or AI startups. - AI Tooling Fluency: Hands-on experience building, testing, or deploying next-generation AI recruiting tools to elevate operational output and interview intelligence. - Employer Branding Expertise: Demonstrated history of successfully designing and launching talent branding campaigns, campus strategies, career pages, or tech-focused recruitment marketing materials. - Foundation in Recruiting/Sourcing: Prior experience as a full-cycle Recruiter or Technical Sourcer. You deeply understand the day-to-day realities, workflows, and challenges of the recruitment lifecycle you are managing and optimizing. Why Join Us? We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. - Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. - Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. - Work-Life Balance: Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. - Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. SandboxAQ Welcomes All We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity : All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations : We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
Senior IT Systems Engineer
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. Atom Computing is seeking a Senior IT Systems Engineer to drive innovation at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and advanced computing. In this role, you’ll design, implement, and maintain the systems and networks that power our cutting-edge quantum computing environment. You’ll work across both on-premises and cloud infrastructure—ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance through thoughtful automation and robust security practices. As a key member of the IT organization reporting to the Director of IT, you’ll collaborate closely with engineers, physicists, and developers to enable seamless operation of research and corporate systems. This position requires both technical depth and a hands-on approach to system design, deployment, and lifecycle management. Your work will directly support the mission of building the world’s most advanced quantum computers. Due to the nature of on-prem infrastructure, this role is required to be in the office in Boulder at least 3 days per week. Responsibilities Research, design, and implement company-wide IT projects. Some of these projects include MDM deployment across various OS’s, SSO integration, IAM Management, provisioning of enterprise resources, and software patching. Installing, configuring, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools. Manage internal hardware infrastructure, and IaaS infrastructure. Deploy best practices across the various environments, and ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability based on firmware/security updates and patching. Optimize IAM, DNS, DHCP and other critical services that run across all system environments. Use scripting and/or MDM platforms to manage user system and application updates. Keep any physical and virtual systems up-to-date with the latest security updates and vulnerability updates. Assist with Level I, II, III ticket queue, user administration, security, hardware management and any other day-to-day IT-related items. Partner with cross-functional teams across the organization, specific to DevOps, and Control Systems to assist with infrastructure needs. Monitor and test system / application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify solutions. Experience & Education BS or MS in Computer Science or related STEM field. 5+ years of experience in an IT role Qualifications Experience with Proxmox hypervisors and bare-metal system configuration / integration (iDRAC), and backup management. Knowledge and experience with all 3 major operating systems, Ubuntu, MacOS, and Windows. Experience with PaaS and IaaS environments like GSuite, Office365, AWS, OKTA, SSO (SCIM Provisioning) Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (DataDog), with SIEM Integrations. Experience with advanced OKTA IAM features such as automated workflows, app integration with a HRIS platform, and SSO setup and configuration using JIT/SCIM Experience with enterprise-grade MDM platforms both Windows and MAC systems; Preferred Microsoft InTune and Kandji for MACs. Ability to run multiple technical projects at once using a SaaS PM software. A passion for technology and customer service.
Principal ASIC Verification Engineer
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. Atom Computing is seeking a Principal ASIC Verification Engineer to lead functional verification of ASICs used in our quantum computer. You will guide test-plan execution across engineers and contractors and contribute directly to testbench development, evaluation, and debug. Responsibilities Own block-to-chip verification plans, schedules, and signoff criteria; lead test development and execution. Provide technical direction, mentor engineers, review test plans and code, and participate in candidate interviews. Define contractor scope, milestones, and acceptance criteria; review deliverables and oversee integration and handoff. Develop Python testbenches, reusable drivers, monitors, reference models, and scoreboards integrated with RTL simulators. Implement tests, automate regressions, debug failures, and close coverage. Communicate verification status, unresolved defects, and tapeout risks. Lead post-layout gate-level verification, including netlist preparation, SDF annotation, and timing-accurate simulation. Verify test modes and patterns with DFT, design, and physical design teams; resolve timing and signoff issues. Resolve requirements and interface issues with architecture, RTL, firmware, and hardware teams; support silicon bring-up and validation. Perform other duties as assigned. Experience & Education Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 10+ years of ASIC/SoC verification experience, with 15+ preferred. Experience verifying multiple ASICs through tapeout and subsequent silicon evaluation, applying findings to improve verification. Qualifications Experience with block-to-chip verification of registers, data paths, and firmware interfaces. Strong Python skills for reusable, object-oriented testbenches with constrained-random stimulus, simulation control, checkers, and coverage. Ability to build behavioral models of mixed-signal blocks, including their digital interfaces and timing. Experience turning design requirements into verification plans, writing SystemVerilog assertions, and closing functional and code coverage. Hands-on post-P&R experience preparing netlists and cell/memory models, annotating SDF, and debugging timing simulations. DFT verification experience with test modes and flows such as scan shift/capture, ATPG patterns, MBIST, or JTAG. Strong RTL and waveform debugging skills, especially resets, clock domains, X propagation, and timing checks. Proficiency with SystemVerilog/UVM, HDL debug tools, Linux, and version control. Experience with regression automation, failure reproduction, and triage. Preferred Qualifications Technical leadership through ASIC tapeout, including mentoring engineers, leading reviews, coordinating verification work, and communicating risks. Experience directing verification contractors, defining scope and acceptance criteria, and reviewing delivery against quality and schedule commitments. Silicon bring-up or validation experience, including lab debug and correlating hardware failures with simulation. Experience with formal verification, equivalence checking, CDC/RDC, lint, emulation, or FPGA prototyping. Familiarity with real-time control, signal processing, or quantum hardware.
Multi-Site Supply Chain Manager
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Manufacturing Site (Geneva), Hybrid Travel: 40% domestic and international. Job ID: 1921 The Role: We are looking for a Multi-Site Supply Chain Manager and MRP/ERP Specialist to join our IonQ Quantum Networking & Security Operations Team. As a Supply Chain Manager, you will be part of a cross-functional international team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring reliable production planning and material availability across all division products and programs including Quantum Networking & Security projects while managing and optimizing ERP/MRP processes across multiple manufacturing sites. Working as a core member of the division production leadership team, you will lead a team of planner and warehouse specialists driving standardization and best practices. You will collaborate closely with Manufacturing Managers, Sales, Procurement, and Finance. The ideal candidate is process-minded, structured problem-solver with a bias for action, and strong cross-functional communicator in an international multi-site environment. Responsibilities : SIOP & Supply Planning - Receive the sales forecast from the Sales/Commercial team across all division and validate it for completeness, consistency, and feasibility before use in planning. - Translate customer demand and validated forecasts into capacity, and material plans across the sites ensuring alignment between Manufacturing, Procurement and Finance. - Lead the demand and supply review identifying gaps between demand material availability, and inventory targets, and developing mitigation scenarios and recommendations for the Senior Operations Director. - Coordinate closely with the Procurement function on material availability, supplier lead times, supply risks, and constraints, ensuring that key risks and potential shortages are identified early and incorporated into SIOP scenarios. - Define and optimize inventory targets and policies in line with SIOP objectives, balancing customer service and revenue requirements with working capital, excess inventory, and obsolescence risks. - Own and monitor key SIOP and Supply Chain KPIs: On Time Delivery (OTD), capacity utilization, inventory turns, and lead times. Team Leadership - Lead and develop a distributed team of demand planning and warehouse/stock specialists, setting clear goals while fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement (Lean/Six Sigma mindset). - Establish common ways of working, tools, and standards across sites to unify the supply chain function at division level. MRP / ERP Management - Act as subject matter expert for the MRP/ERP system regarding demand planning capabilities, and drive improvements to configuration, workflows, and data quality. - Partner with IT/business systems teams on ERP upgrades, patches, and enhancements affecting planning modules across all sites; lead UAT (user acceptance testing) for planning-related system changes. Finance Reporting - Prepare and deliver a monthly production and delivery forecast to Finance to support anticipation of next month's revenues. - Partner with Finance on monthly sales forecasts (revenue and volume implications), budget and variance analysis (actual vs. forecast/budget) at division level. - Plan and coordinate the annual physical inventory count at each site ensuring accuracy and working with Finance to reconcile results against ERP records. Requirements: - Master’s degree in industrial engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field required; - 8+ years of progressive supply chain experience focused on demand/supply planning in a manufacturing environment. Experience in the electronics industry preferred. - Experience operating across multiple sites and ability to standardize processes and drive alignment across locations - 3+ years of experience in leading a team - Strong analytical and statistical data handling skills; advanced Excel required. - Deep, hands-on expertise in MRP/ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) is required - Solid knowledge of finance/costing concepts (standard costing, inventory valuation, working capital, etc) - Fluent in French and English (written and spoken) required, given the international, cross-functional nature of the role - Structured problem-solving and data-driven decision-making - Cross functional influence and clear communication to Senior Leadership and Finance Stakeholders. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Director, Real Estate
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role: IonQ's physical footprint is expanding quickly as our quantum computing business scales, across offices, research and development laboratories, manufacturing and data centre space. We are looking for an experienced real estate leader to build and run a global real estate programme that keeps pace with that growth: finding and securing the right sites, negotiating the deals and keeping a growing multi-site portfolio running efficiently. This is a hands-on leadership role that blends strategy with execution, from market analysis and site selection through lease negotiation, acquisition and project delivery for highly specialised laboratory and manufacturing space. You will report to the VP, Tax, Real Estate & Facilities and act as the real estate subject matter expert for internal stakeholders and executive leadership. Responsibilities: You will evolve and execute a global real estate strategy aligned with IonQ's growth, manufacturing, research and customer deployment goals. That means analysing market trends and recommending investments, expansions, consolidations, relocations or dispositions across offices, laboratories, manufacturing and data centre space, and making sure space is used efficiently as the company scales. You will oversee a growing portfolio of owned and leased properties across the US and international markets, including College Park, Bothell, Boulder and Chattanooga. You will keep accurate records of leases, property data, critical dates and renewals, manage real estate budgets, forecasts and capital expenditure plans, and track return on investment, occupancy cost and portfolio performance to drive savings. You will work closely with Construction, Facilities, Design, Legal, Finance, EHS, Operations and HR to close transactions, plan space and stand up new sites, and you will manage relationships with landlords, brokers, developers and vendors. Key responsibilities include: - Lead site selection using market, talent, infrastructure, demographic and financial analysis, including power, vibration, cleanroom and security needs. - Identify and negotiate acquisitions, build to suit and development opportunities for laboratory, manufacturing and corporate facilities. - Lead due diligence, financial modelling and feasibility analysis for specialised quantum and semiconductor adjacent space. - Lead lease negotiations, including new leases, renewals, expansions, terminations and amendments, and make sure obligations are met on time. - Drive project management of all real estate projects, delivering build outs and laboratory fit outs on time, within budget and technically ready. Requirements: You will have at least ten years of progressive experience in corporate real estate, laboratory or manufacturing real estate, or technology or industrial portfolio management, with a track record of supporting a multi-location portfolio. A degree in Real Estate, Finance, Business Administration, Engineering or a related field is expected, and an MBA or other relevant advanced degree is an advantage. You will have negotiated complex leases, renewals, purchase agreements and terminations, and you will understand real estate law, zoning, entitlement, due diligence and development processes, particularly for specialised laboratory, manufacturing and data centre environments. You will bring strong financial judgement, with experience evaluating feasibility, return on investment, capital requirements and portfolio performance. You will be a confident leader who coaches and develops a team, holds it accountable for results, and communicates recommendations clearly to senior and executive leadership. You’d be a great fit with: - Strong site selection expertise across market, talent, infrastructure, competitive and financial analysis. - Experience managing landlord, broker, developer and other external partner relationships. - A portfolio optimisation mindset, with a record of finding value through relocations, renewals and dispositions. - Experience leading cross-functional work with Construction, Facilities, Legal, Finance, EHS and Operations to open and expand sites on time. - Proficiency with real estate technology and analytical tools such as CoStar, Argus, MRI or comparable platforms. The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Global Media Relations Director
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Remote, US Job ID: 1797 The Role: IonQ is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and high-energy Global Media Relations Director to lead our global media strategy and external narrative. As a key leader within the Global Marketing and Communications team, you will drive premium earned media, safeguard our brand reputation, and articulate IonQ’s technology and market leadership. This role demands a seasoned communicator who pairs deep top-tier media relationships with strong financial and technical communications expertise. You must excel at translating complex quantum hardware, software, and scientific breakthroughs into compelling, digestible stories for global business, financial, and tech audiences—all without losing scientific integrity. Responsibilities: - Drive Top-Tier Earned Media: Lead proactive pitching across global business, financial, broadcast, deep-tech, and scientific media outlets to secure high-impact coverage. - Agency Oversight: Work as a member of the Global Marketing & Communications leadership team to oversee the daily activities and results delivery of IonQ’s external agencies. - Executive & SME Coaching: Serve as the primary communications partner for IonQ’s executive team, top scientists, and engineers. Develop custom briefing materials and conduct intensive media training for spokespeople. - Thought Leadership: Proactively position internal subject matter experts for commentary, features, and key industry moments, working closely with the Global Head, Strategic Content, Insights & Market Intelligence. - Technical Translation: Collaborate across GTM, Product, R&D, Applications; Social Media and Strategic Content, Insights & Market Intelligence teams globally to distill complex quantum concepts (computing, networking, sensing, security) into clear, engaging narratives. - Media Collateral: Write and edit high-quality external materials, including press releases, pitch decks, media alerts, executive bios, FAQs, and messaging playbooks. - Message Architecture: Own and maintain the central repository for core media messaging and talking points to ensure brand consistency across all external touchpoints. - Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Investor Relations, Legal, Compliance, Government Affairs and People teams to ensure all external communications adhere to regulatory standards and internal alignment. - Crisis & Issues Management: Assist in developing crisis playbooks, protocol updates, and reactive messaging for regulatory, governance, or M&A-related events. - Media Monitoring & Analytics: Partner with the Media Monitoring and Social Intelligence Specialist to track brand sentiment, share of voice, and competitor narratives, leveraging data to refine strategies. - Industry Trendjacking: Actively monitor macro industry trends, tech policy, and market movements to insert IonQ into relevant news cycles. - Operations: Maintain media distribution lists, editorial calendars, press kits, and collaborative tracking tools to streamline team workflows. Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, or a relevant scientific/technical field (e.g., Physics, Engineering). - 8+ years in media relations or corporate communications, with 4+ years specifically in a deep-tech, scientific, or highly technical industry (e.g., Quantum Computing, Semiconductors, Aerospace, AI, or Advanced Engineering). - Track Record: Proven portfolio of securing impactful earned media placements across top-tier financial (e.g., WSJ, FT, Bloomberg) and tech/trade publications. - Writing/Storytelling Mastery: Exceptional ability to write with speed, precision, and clarity under tight deadlines, transforming abstract scientific data into clear business narratives. - Executive Presence: Extensive experience media-training C-suite executives and PhD-level Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). - Demonstrated ability to leverage technology — including AI-powered tools for drafting, monitoring, and sentiment analysis — to increase team efficiency and sharpen strategic decision-making. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience navigating late-stage, high-growth tech startups or publicly traded deep-tech companies. - Working knowledge of financial media relations and regulatory compliance (e.g., SEC guidelines/Reg FD). - Familiarity with media tools and PRM software (e.g., Cision, Muck Rack, Meltwater, Brandwatch). The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $148,000 - $222,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Technical Programme Manager, Quantum System...
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Oxford, England Travel: As needed Job ID: 1905 The Role: We are looking for a Technical Programme Manager to join the Quantum Systems Infrastructure (QSI) team at IonQ's Oxford office. QSI builds and runs the platform our next-generation quantum computers are built, tested, released and operated on, from bare metal in the lab to cloud, working across both Oxford and the US. Your mission is to run the machinery that keeps QSI’s portfolio visible, planned and unblocked so engineers can engineer, leaders can lead, and the business always knows what is changing and why it matters. You will work very closely with the Technical Programme Managers in the Software and Science teams, ensuring our processes and workflows complement and integrate with their work, rather than duplicating effort. We run a centralised PMO operating model at IonQ which you will be a core part of though on a day to day basis you will work alongside the QSI team. As part of this model, this role will not make technical decisions, own engineering headcount, or define product but it will make the programme around those things run. Responsibilities : You will own programme execution across QSI’s delivery streams, translating a leadership-visible roadmap into clear plans, measurable milestones and predictable delivery. You will create and run the operating rhythm that keeps teams aligned and leaders informed. When priorities shift, you will implement structure to that ambiguity, clarifying scope, coordinating trade-offs and pushing problems to resolution. Key responsibilities include: - Owning programme execution across QSI’s delivery streams: one planning rhythm, one backlog discipline, ensuring dependencies and risks surfaced early and chased to resolution. - Running the roadmap-to-delivery link: keeping the roadmap, Jira and reality agreeing with each other, and making slippage visible early. - Owning the programme ceremonies and the design of the workflows behind them (day-to-day stand-ups are run by the engineering managers). - Working hand-in-hand with the Software and Science TPMs: shared or integrated processes wherever teams interact, and no duplicated ceremonies, boards or reporting. - Coordinating across teams - Continuing Engineering (US), the PMO, product and science teams - serving as QSI’s cross-functional programme liaison. - Establishing programme cadences and reporting (changelogs, demos, leadership summaries etc) in plain English that non-infrastructure stakeholders can read and trust. - Running the intake and triage process so requests reach the right stream with the right priority, without engineers being interrupt-driven. Requirements: We’re looking for a technically fluent Programme Manager who brings structure, pace and clarity to a fast-moving infrastructure organisation. You will be comfortable working in a deeply technical environment, working daily with platform and systems engineers, while translating progress, risks and trade-offs into clear reporting senior stakeholders can trust. You will thrive in ambiguity and an organisation where you are able to drive change. You do not just coordinate: you unblock teams, keep plans honest, and raise the bar on how programmes are run. You will have prior experience tunning technical programmes across multiple engineering teams, ideally in infrastructure, platform or systems engineering environments. You should be fluent with modern programme tooling, such as Jira, Confluence and GitHub, and have the judgement to keep process lightweight. You’d be a great fit with: - Experience harmonising ways of working across sibling teams or departments, integrating processes rather than multiplying them. - Strong, plain-English communication and the ability to make infrastructure work legible to non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously across sites and time zones in a fast-paced, changing environment. - A chase-without-nagging, escalate-without-drama working style, and a clear sense of the difference between a risk and a noise. Additional experience would be beneficial, such as a background in hardware-adjacent software (labs, manufacturing, robotics, scientific instruments), exposure to regulated or government-customer delivery, or agile coaching / scrum mastery experience. Working knowledge of quantum computing concepts would be a plus though is not essential. Benefits: Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers: machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries. Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry, including partners like GlobalFoundries, we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don't feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure. That approach has since been tested at the highest level of scrutiny the U.S. government applies to emerging technology, and it has held up. In 2025, PsiQuantum closed a $1 billion funding round that valued the company at $7 billion. In 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce signed a $100 million Letter of Intent under the CHIPS and Science Act, followed by a $125 million agreement with DARPA under Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, PsiQuantum's most valuable U.S. government agreement to date. This year, we also broke ground on our utility-scale quantum computer in Brisbane, Australia, and continued building out our Chicago site. Victor Peng, our CEO, and co-founder Jeremy O'Brien, now Executive Chairman, lead a team and board that reflects how seriously the world is taking this build, joined this year by Intel's Lip-Bu Tan and Atomico's Niklas Zennström. PsiQuantum also develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application, software, and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies, including Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical, to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. It represents a fundamental shift, and a path to mastering challenges that cannot be solved any other way. The potential is enormous, and we now have the funding, the government validation, and the sites under construction to make it real. Job Summary: The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer is responsible for designing highly complex, cutting-edge optomechanical and optoelectronic subsystem assemblies. You will work closely with teams across a wide range of disciplines, including cryogenics, optics, electronics, and manufacturing. You will be expected to apply Design for Manufacturability (DFM) principles on a daily basis. Strong design skills incorporating mechanics of materials, thermodynamics, electronics, and precision design principles are essential. This role offers the opportunity to apply your talents, make a meaningful impact, and learn about breakthrough technologies. You will work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and high-energy environment alongside a fun, talented, and highly collaborative team. Responsibilities: - Translate high-level, ambiguous requirements into practical design solutions. - Collaborate with stakeholders to iterate and refine concepts, negotiate requirements in support of overall project goals. - Rapid prototype concepts to iterate designs. - Ownership of designs from prototype to production. - Generate and maintain process flow documentation. - Conduct DFMEA, PFMEA & risk analysis heat maps. - Generate & maintain BOM’s & build standards. - Ability to execute basic structural and thermal analyses to down-select designs. - Practicing proper engineering revision control, preferably with Solidwork PDM / Arena (PLM), or NX. Experience/Qualifications: - Experience designing mechanical assemblies for optoelectronic devices, such as optical transceivers, co-packaged optics, and datacenter switching systems. - Expertise in Design for Manufacturability, Design for Assembly. - Expertise with GD&T. - Expertise with tolerance analysis methods. - Strong communication and interpersonal skills. - Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and design principles in emerging or unfamiliar fields. - Willingness to support colleagues in achieving team objectives. - Demonstrated independent judgment. - Continuous learning mindset. - Proven ability to execute deliverables against schedule and quality targets. - Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering or a relevant discipline. - 2–5 years of experience, with a focus on optomechanical design and/or optoelectronic packaging. - Experience designing systems for cryogenic and vacuum environments is a plus. - Experience with fiber optical industry is a plus. - Experience designing semiconductor-related optomechanical assemblies, particularly for vacuum environments or applications sensitive to temperature-induced drift, is a plus. PsiQuantum provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. PsiQuantum does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process. Please report any suspicious activity to recruiting@psiquantum.com . We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits. Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographic markets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled within one of the following U.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range. Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process. - Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC - Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC - Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento - Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations This position includes the following benefits: competitive health coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, access to financial wellness tools and planning resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off (DTO), and an end-of-year company shutdown. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements and may vary based on location, role, or employment status. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company. The e s timated annual base salary range for this role is: Zone 1 $167,800 - $197,200 USD Zone 2 $151,100 - $177,500 USD Zone 3 $134,300 - $157,800 USD Zone 4 $117,500 - $138,000 USD
Research Intern
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. We are seeking a research intern to contribute to the architecture and strategy of error correction on neutral atom quantum computers. Atomic qubit arrays provide a path to the large-scale quantum computers that will deliver fault-tolerant, error-corrected logical qubits. You will work with our Quantum Error Correction team to tackle targeted research questions related to fault-tolerant quantum computing using neutral-atom hardware. We are specifically seeking candidates with expertise in the following areas: Applications of machine learning/AI for quantum computing QEC codes and fault-tolerant logic Magic state production Synthesis and compilation of fault-tolerant algorithms Design, simulation, and execution of fault-tolerant protocols Responsibilities Contribute to new and ongoing research projects at Atom Computing, particularly those related to quantum error correction and fault tolerance. Experience & Education Currently pursuing a PhD in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field. Experience with quantum error correction theory or experiment. Qualifications Willingness to translate concepts into demonstrations running on actual quantum computing hardware. Familiarity with Python and Git software version control Temperamentally suited to work at a fast-growing startup: self-motivated, humble, driven, and collaborative. Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a diverse team of experimental physicists, hardware, and software engineers.
Senior R&D Engineer
PsiQuantum’s mission is to build the first useful quantum computers—machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries. Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry—including partners like GlobalFoundries—we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don’t feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure. In 2024, PsiQuantum announced government-funded projects to support the build-out of our first utility-scale quantum computers in Brisbane, Australia, and Chicago, Illinois. These initiatives reflect a growing recognition that quantum computing will be strategically and economically defining—and that now is the time to scale. PsiQuantum also develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application, software, and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies—including Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical—to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. It represents a fundamental shift—and a path to mastering challenges that cannot be solved any other way. The potential is enormous, and we have a clear path to make it real. Come join us. Job Summary: Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPD) are a key technology that are mandatory for the development of photonic quantum computers. The job will involve large-scale analysis of SNSPD data and film metrology and design of experiments informed by microscopic superconductivity theory to make improvements to SNSPD devices and materials. The job would involve close interaction with multiple teams spanning material science, fabrication ,testing and layout to deploy SNSPD’s at scale for the development of fault-tolerant quantum computers. Responsibilities: The role will require large-scale analysis of SNSPD data based on a deep understanding of SNSPD physics, spanning microscopic theories of superconductivity as well as phenomenological models suitable for devices. The analyzed data will be used to deploy future material design and device design tape-outs for scalable, high performance and high temperature operation. Experience/Qualifications: >5 years experience in the design and development of SNSPDs , or in adjacent areas involving microscopic theory of superconductivity or condensed matter physics or superconducting device design. A PhD in a technical discipline is preferred but not necessary. PsiQuantum provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. PsiQuantum does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process. Please report any suspicious activity to recruiting@psiquantum.com . We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from employment agencies.
Head of Photonics
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. We are seeking a Head of Photonics to establish and lead Atom Computing's integrated photonics program. Scaling neutral-atom quantum computers is a problem of controlling light: delivering fast, precise, independent optical control to very large numbers of qubits. Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) are central to our scaling roadmap, and we are investing in them for the long term. You will own the company's photonics strategy: selecting material platforms and architectures, and leading development programs from concept to hardware running in our quantum computers. You will build an in-house team with design, test, and integration capability, and direct technical collaborations with foundries and photonics companies. You will work closely with the physicists and engineers who translate qubit requirements into device specifications. Prior experience in atomic physics or quantum computing is not required. Responsibilities Define and own the integrated photonics roadmap. Assess competing material platforms and architectures against system-level requirements, and make clear, well-reasoned downselect decisions. Lead PIC development programs from specification through design, fabrication, test, packaging, and integration into our quantum computers. Build and lead an in-house photonics team, and establish its design, simulation, test, and integration capabilities. Serve as technical lead for external partnerships with foundries, materials suppliers, and photonics companies: scope development efforts, write and negotiate specifications, review designs, and hold partners to performance and schedule. Scout and evaluate emerging photonic technologies that could open new approaches to qubit control. Generate intellectual property and communicate results internally and, as appropriate, in publications and presentations. Capable of lifting and moving objects that weigh up to 25 pounds. Experience & Education PhD in Electrical Engineering, Physics, Optical Sciences, Applied Physics, or a related field. 8+ years of post-PhD experience in integrated photonics in industry or a leading research group, including leading PIC programs from concept to fabricated, tested devices. Demonstrated experience building and leading technical teams. Required Qualifications Recognized expertise in integrated photonics, with command of the full landscape: material platforms, foundry ecosystems, and the current state of the art in modulators, nonlinear devices, and large-scale photonic circuits. Hands-on track record designing, taping out, and characterizing PICs through external foundries or internal fabs. Deep understanding of high-performance electro-optic modulation and/or integrated nonlinear optics. Proven ability to manage external development partners, including writing specifications and driving multi-party programs to schedule. Sound technical judgment: comfortable making high-stakes platform decisions with incomplete information, and defending them with data. Ability to communicate clearly with physicists, engineers, executives, and external partners. Preferred Qualifications Experience with visible or near-infrared integrated photonics. Experience across multiple material platforms, such as thin-film electro-optic materials, silicon nitride, and heterogeneous integration. Experience with large-scale photonic circuits and with interfacing PICs to free-space optics. Experience with high-speed RF drive, photonic packaging, and fiber and free-space coupling. Established relationships across photonics foundries, academic groups, and startups. Experience in a fast-paced hardware development or startup environment.
Quantum Engineer
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. We are looking for Quantum Engineers to work on all aspects of neutral atom quantum computing. As a Quantum Engineer at Atom Computing, you will join a team of talented scientists and engineers who are working to translate fundamental atomic physics to a scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computer. We welcome applicants from a diverse set of backgrounds, but are specifically interested in candidates with experience in the following fields: Trapping and manipulation of cold atoms; Coherent control of quantum systems (for example: neutral atoms, trapped ions, NV- centers, nuclear magnetic resonance, superconducting qubits); Quantum characterization, verification, and validation (QCVV) techniques. Responsibilities Design and construct the scientific hardware and control interfaces (both hardware and software) that are the essential backbone of the quantum computing platform. Generate intellectual property related to the design and operation of neutral-atom-based quantum computers. Distill and communicate findings internally, and as appropriate, in external publications and presentations. Capable of lifting and moving objects that weigh up to 25 pounds. Experience & Education PhD in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, or a related field. Required Qualifications Extensive knowledge of the state-of-the-art techniques used in atomic physics and quantum computing research Deep understanding of the fundamental interactions between light and matter. Ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with a diverse team of experimental physicists, hardware, and software engineers. Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with Python and Git software version control
System Modeling and Simulation Lead (Quantum Syste...
PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers: machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries. Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry, including partners like GlobalFoundries, we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don't feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure. That approach has since been tested at the highest level of scrutiny the U.S. government applies to emerging technology, and it has held up. In 2025, PsiQuantum closed a $1 billion funding round that valued the company at $7 billion. In 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce signed a $100 million Letter of Intent under the CHIPS and Science Act, followed by a $125 million agreement with DARPA under Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, PsiQuantum's most valuable U.S. government agreement to date. This year, we also broke ground on our utility-scale quantum computer in Brisbane, Australia, and continued building out our Chicago site. Victor Peng, our CEO, and co-founder Jeremy O'Brien, now Executive Chairman, lead a team and board that reflects how seriously the world is taking this build, joined this year by Intel's Lip-Bu Tan and Atomico's Niklas Zennström. PsiQuantum also develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application, software, and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies, including Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical, to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. It represents a fundamental shift, and a path to mastering challenges that cannot be solved any other way. The potential is enormous, and we now have the funding, the government validation, and the sites under construction to make it real. Job Summary: We're looking for a System Modeling and Simulation Lead to build predictive, system-level models of our quantum computer based on photonic, electronic, and other system descriptions together with measured or specified component performance. The models will translate losses, noise, timing jitter, stability, crosstalk, false-count rates, and related nonidealities into key quantum performance metrics. This role will also create validated subsystem abstractions that conceal unnecessary implementation detail while preserving the behavior and control knobs needed by validation, architecture, and design teams for predictive analysis and model closure. These capabilities must be delivered through user-friendly, well-documented interfaces so teams across the organization can configure, run, and interpret approved models without needing to understand their internal implementation. Responsibilities: - Build predictive system-level quantum performance models - Ingest and interpret photonic, electronic, and mixed-domain system descriptions , component models, characterization data, and system configuration inputs. - Translate component and interface performance - including loss, noise, jitter, drift and stability, crosstalk, and false-count rates - into end-to-end predictions of key quantum system metrics. - Develop models that support architecture trades, requirement allocation, performance budgeting, and design decisions before full hardware is available. - Develop coherent, reusable system abstractions - Create reduced-order or behavioral models that connect logical intent to physical-system behavior and support control, calibration, and validation workflows, while masking lower-level implementation details that are not needed by model users. - Define stable model interfaces and expose the necessary inputs, outputs, states, uncertainties, and control knobs for architecture, validation, and design teams, as well as control and calibration workflows. - Establish clear validity ranges, assumptions, parameter provenance, and fidelity levels, and maintain coherence among logical, physical, and control models as each evolves. - Drive model validation and closure - Partner with validation, design, and subsystem teams to compare model predictions against component, subsystem, and integrated-system measurements . - Quantify prediction error and uncertainty using sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo methods, uncertainty propagation, and statistical inference where appropriate. - Investigate model-to-hardware discrepancies, identify missing physics or incorrect assumptions, and drive model closure with documented evidence . - Build usable simulation capabilities that scale - Develop maintainable, modular simulation software in Python , with automated tests, version control, clear APIs, and reproducible execution. - Provide a user-friendly interface - such as documented Python APIs, configuration-driven workflows, command-line or graphical tools, templates, and clear visualization/reporting - so users across the organization can configure and run approved analyses with minimal support. - Create versioned component and subsystem model libraries that remain synchronized with requirements, characterization data, system configurations, and hardware revisions , while improving execution efficiency without compromising accuracy or traceability. - Create a workflow that enables other engineers and domain experts to contribute component, subsystem, and detailed-physics models while maintaining common interfaces, review rigor, traceability, and quality standards. - Partner cross-functionally and communicate clearly - Work closely with architecture, validation, design, photonics, electronics, controls, calibration, detailed physics modeling, and systems engineering teams to define model needs, boundaries, and interfaces. - Turn ambiguous performance questions into well-scoped modeling studies with clear assumptions, confidence bounds, and decision-relevant outputs. - Communicate model behavior, limitations, dominant sensitivities, and recommended actions through clear documentation and concise technical and executive updates . Experience/Qualifications: - Education & experience - MS in Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Applied Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience, or - PhD in a similar field with 6+ years of relevant industry experience. - Systems-modeling and signal-processing background - Strong foundation in systems modeling for complex, multi-domain physical systems , with the ability to connect component behavior and physical nonidealities to system-level performance metrics. - Strong understanding of signal processing, noise analysis, timing and frequency-domain behavior, stochastic processes, and statistical data analysis . - Modeling & software - Advanced proficiency in Python scientific computing and experience building production-quality simulation or analysis software that is usable by engineers beyond the development team. - Demonstrated experience with graph-based system representations, numerical simulation, and model validation for complex physical systems. - Experience using and championing modern agentic software-development best practices . - Proficiency with modern version-control tools and collaborative workflows, particularly Git , including branching, code review, and managing contributions from multiple developers. - Collaboration & communication - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to explain model assumptions, uncertainty, limitations, and technical conclusions to both domain experts and system-level decision makers. - Mindset - Rigorous and intellectually curious; comfortable working across abstraction levels, challenging assumptions, and iterating as designs and measured data evolve. PsiQuantum provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. PsiQuantum does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process. Please report any suspicious activity to recruiting@psiquantum.com . We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits. Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographic markets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled within one of the following U.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range. Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process. - Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC - Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC - Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento - Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations This position includes the following benefits: competitive health coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, access to financial wellness tools and planning resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off (DTO), and an end-of-year company shutdown. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements and may vary based on location, role, or employment status. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company. The e s timated annual base salary range for this role is: Zone 1 $208,300 - $244,700 USD Zone 2 $187,400 - $220,200 USD Zone 3 $166,600 - $195,800 USD Zone 4 $145,800 - $171,300 USD
Senior Staff AI Security Lead
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices. We are open to a fully remote option for the right candidate. Travel: Up to 10% Job ID: 1915 The Role: We are hiring a senior technical leader to build the AI foundation our security organization runs on — and to make sure it actually gets used. This is a dual-mandate role. You will stand up the enterprise AI infrastructure that lets security teams safely build with large language models and agents, and you will lead the adoption effort that turns that infrastructure into measurable gains across detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, GRC, and security engineering. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role. You will write code, design systems, and set technical direction. You will not manage a team, but you will lead through influence: partnering with engineering leaders, coaching analysts and engineers, and building the coalitions that make org-wide change stick. Expect roughly an even split between platform building and enablement work. You will report to the security leadership team and work closely with Platform Engineering, IT, Legal, Privacy, and the broader AI/ML organization. Responsibilities : Stand Up the Enterprise AI Infrastructure - Build the platform. Design and build the shared platform security teams use to develop AI applications — model gateway and routing, authentication and authorization, secrets handling, rate limiting, cost attribution, and audit logging. - Enable agentic systems. Establish patterns and reusable components for agentic workflows: tool and MCP server integration, sandboxed execution, human-in-the-loop approval gates, and least-privilege scoping for agent credentials. - Wire in the data. Connect security's knowledge — runbooks, detection logic, past incidents, asset inventory, policy documents — to AI systems through well-governed retrieval pipelines with correct access controls and data classification enforcement. - Make it measurable. Build the evaluation harness, regression suites, and observability that tell us whether an AI system is working: output quality, latency, cost, hallucination rate, and drift over time. Nothing ships to production without a baseline. - Secure the stack itself. Implement guardrails against prompt injection, data exfiltration through model outputs, insecure tool use, and supply-chain risk in models and AI dependencies. Red-team the platform and the applications built on it. - Set the standards. Own the reference architecture, golden paths, and internal documentation so that a security engineer can go from idea to reviewed prototype in days rather than months. Drive AI Adoption Across the Security Organization - Find the real use cases. Work directly with detection engineering, IR, threat intel, vulnerability management, GRC, and security operations to identify where AI meaningfully reduces toil or improves quality — and where it does not. Kill weak ideas early. - Build the flagship applications. Deliver a small number of high-visibility wins yourself. Nothing drives adoption like a working tool that saves an analyst two hours a day. - Teach the organization. Run enablement programs — office hours, workshops, internal documentation, prompt and agent design patterns, brown-bags — that raise the AI fluency of the entire security organization, not just the engineers. - Measure adoption honestly. Define and report the metrics that show whether adoption is real: active users, workflows automated, analyst hours returned, time-to-detect and time-to-respond improvements, quality deltas against human baselines. - Establish governance that enables. Partner with Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to establish the acceptable-use policy, review process, and risk framework for AI in security workflows — designed to unblock teams rather than stall them. - Stay ahead of the field. Maintain the organization's point of view on where AI capability is heading and what it means for our security roadmap, staffing, and threat model. Evaluate vendors and open models on the merits. Requirements: - 8+ years in security engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related technical field, including significant hands-on software development. - Demonstrated experience building and operating production systems with large language models — not prototypes or demos. You have shipped something real, dealt with its failure modes, and iterated on it. - Strong software engineering fundamentals and fluency in Python (or an equivalent language), including API design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Deep understanding of security engineering: identity and access management, secrets management, network boundaries, logging and detection, and secure software development practices. - Working knowledge of AI-specific risk — prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage through model outputs, insecure agent tool use, model and dependency supply chain — and practical mitigations for each. - A track record of driving technical change across an organization through influence rather than authority: building consensus, teaching, and shipping things people voluntarily adopt. - Clear written and verbal communication. You can explain a system design to an engineer and the business case for it to an executive, in the same week. - Sound judgment about where AI is genuinely useful and where it is not. We want an advocate who is also a skeptic. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with agent frameworks, orchestration, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or comparable tool-use standards. - Experience building evaluation frameworks or LLM observability tooling. - Background in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response — you have felt the toil firsthand. - Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, vector databases, and knowledge pipeline design. - Familiarity with AI governance and assurance frameworks such as the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001, or the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. - Experience fine-tuning or evaluating open-weight models for domain-specific tasks. - Prior experience as a first or founding hire on a platform or capability that later scaled organization-wide. What Success Looks Like First 90 Days - You have mapped the current state — what security teams are already doing with AI, sanctioned or not — and published a prioritized assessment of gaps, risks, and opportunities. - A minimum viable AI platform is running: gateway, authentication, logging, and cost attribution, with at least one security team building on it. - An acceptable-use policy and lightweight review process for AI in security workflows is drafted and socialized. First 6 Months - Two or more production AI applications are in daily use by security teams, with measured impact. - The evaluation and observability layer is in place; no AI system reaches production without a quality baseline and monitoring. - Enablement is operating on a regular cadence, and engineers outside your immediate orbit are shipping their own AI-assisted workflows on the golden paths you built. First Year - AI is a normal part of how the security organization works, with adoption and impact reported through metrics leadership trusts. - The platform supports agentic workflows safely, with guardrails that have been tested adversarially. - The role has clearly outgrown one person, and you have made the case for what the team around it should look like. Why This Role Security organizations are drowning in work that AI is genuinely good at, and most of them are still stuck at the pilot stage because nobody owns both halves of the problem — the infrastructure and the adoption. This role owns both. You will have executive sponsorship, real budget, and the latitude to set technical direction from a blank page. If you want to define how an entire security organization works with AI rather than tune someone else's system, this is that job. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $180,000 - $225,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Salesforce Administrator, GovCloud
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This position can work onsite or hybrid from one of our offices in the US or fully remote. Travel: Up to 10% Job ID: 1752 The Role: We are looking for a Certified Salesforce Administrator with proven experience managing hybrid architectures (specifically bridging Salesforce GovCloud and Commercial instances) to maintain strict FedRAMP compliance while seamlessly integrating cross-environment data and workflows. In this role, you will be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world's best quantum computers to solve the world's most complex problems. You will own the health, configuration, and compliance posture of IonQ's Salesforce Government Cloud environment supporting our Federal business . You will provision and govern access, deliver enhancements, and keep the platform audit-ready against federal control frameworks. The ideal candidate is a hands-on administrator who is meticulous about access control and data integrity, comfortable operating in a regulated environment, and able to work independently in a fast-moving, resource-constrained team. Responsibilities : - Own and administer IonQ's Salesforce Government Cloud org, ensuring the environment is configured correctly, segmented from commercial orgs, and continuously aligned to FedRAMP and CUI handling requirements. - Provision and deprovision user access, managing profiles, permission sets, roles, and license assignments in line with least-privilege and federal access-governance standards. - Build and deliver enhancements using declarative tools (flows, validation rules, record types, page layouts, dynamic forms) and coordinate managed-package and integration changes within GovCloud constraints. - Design, build, and maintain reports and dashboards that give federal sales, operations, and compliance stakeholders accurate, timely visibility into pipeline and activity. - Perform routine platform maintenance including data-quality management, deduplication, sandbox and release management, and evaluation of seasonal Salesforce updates before they reach production. - Support Salesforce Shield controls (platform encryption, event monitoring, field audit trail) and produce the access reviews and evidence required for CMMC, NIST 800-171, and internal audit. - Manage the intake queue for federal Salesforce requests, triaging, prioritizing, and resolving issues against agreed service levels. - Gather requirements from federal stakeholders, translate them into configuration or solution designs, and lead UAT before deployment. - Maintain documentation, runbooks, and configuration standards so the environment stays supportable and transferable. - Serve as the subject-matter expert for federal Salesforce, advising on best practices and partnering with security, trade compliance, and IT on ITAR and CUI data-handling questions. Requirements: - 7+ years of professional experience as a Salesforce administrator, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. - Direct experience with Salesforce Government Cloud, Salesforce Shield, and FedRAMP-authorized environments. - Bachelor's degree in information systems, business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - Active Salesforce Administrator certification (ADM-201) and demonstrated mastery of the declarative platform, including the security model, permission sets, flows, report types, and page layouts. - Hands-on experience administering Salesforce in a regulated or compliance-driven environment, with working knowledge of access governance and audit support. - Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident) and able to meet the requirements for handling CUI and working within a Salesforce Government Cloud / FedRAMP environment. - Strong data-management skills, including data quality, imports, and deduplication. - Clear written and verbal communication and the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a small, fast-moving team. Preferred Qualifications: - Salesforce Advanced Administrator (ADM-211) or Platform App Builder certification. - Familiarity with federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, CMMC, NIST 800-171, DFARS, ITAR/CUI) as they apply to CRM. - Experience supporting a federal or public-sector sales organization, including deal desk or RevOps processes. - Exposure to Revenue Cloud/CPQ, Agentforce, or Salesforce integrations in a multi-business-unit environment. - Experience in a high-growth or startup environment where processes are still being built. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $112,800 - $169,200 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior System Integration & Test Engineer
At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a world-class team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals to advance the state-of-the-art in quantum computing. We are seeking a Senior System Integration & Test Engineer to integrate verified subsystems and align the complete optical system of neutral-atom quantum computers. This hands-on role performs system-level checkout without atoms, delivering the alignment and configuration records Quantum Engineers (QEs) need to begin atom-based testing. Responsibilities Install released optical, laser-delivery, mechanical, and electronic assemblies; verify mounting, connections, and interfaces against the approved system configuration. Align optical paths between subsystems, including beam-delivery and imaging interfaces; establish specified beam geometry, polarization, and coupling without atoms. Connect fibers and radio-frequency (RF)/control cabling while preserving cleanliness and mechanical stability; coordinate laser-delivery and control-channel checks with specialists. Measure system optical throughput, beam quality, and alignment stability using approved diagnostics and metrology; compare results against QE-approved handoff criteria. Diagnose cross-subsystem alignment and interface problems with laser, controls, and subsystem engineers; isolate the cause and implement only approved corrections. Complete assigned controls, safety, and readiness checks; maintain safe laser-laboratory practices throughout integration. Record alignment measurements, system configuration, completed work, and open issues in the SI&T handoff package. Work alongside QEs during first-of-a-kind integration to capture installation sequences, alignment references, and diagnostic methods for repeat builds. Support hardware corrections during QE testing while preserving the approved configuration; QEs retain circuit validation and technical acceptance. Improve integration instructions and alignment methods alongside Manufacturing Engineering. Experience & Education Bachelors in physics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent integration experience; MS preferred 5+ years of hands-on integration and alignment of precision laser, optical, or atomic-physics systems involving multiple interacting subsystems Experience establishing complete-system readiness from optical measurements, interface checkout, fault isolation, and controlled configuration records. Experience integrating quantum-computing or atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) laboratory hardware preferred, including collaboration with experimental physicists. Qualifications Strong hands-on free-space alignment, fiber coupling, polarization control, and end-to-end optical troubleshooting skills. Working understanding of neutral-atom hardware functions such as trapping, optical addressing, and imaging, and their implications for system alignment. Ability to interpret optical layouts, mechanical references, electrical connections, and interface-control documentation across subsystem boundaries. Experience with optical power meters, beam cameras, and related diagnostics; familiarity with RF/control interfaces and laboratory scripting preferred. Precise alignment and checkout records, safe laser-laboratory practices, and clear communication with quantum physicists and specialist integration engineers.
Technical Communications Writer - Quantum R&D
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role will be based on-site at our Boston, MA office. We may be open to hybrid or remote options for the right candidate as long as their location is in the Northeast. Travel: Up to 25%, domestic & international Job ID: 1652 The Role: We are looking for a Technical Communications Writer (Quantum R&D) to join our Global External Communications team, partnering closely with R&D and Engineering. As a Technical Communications Writer, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. In this role, you will be responsible for translating complex quantum computing concepts into clear content and building a structured pipeline of technical communications. The ideal candidate is someone who is a bridge-builder, operating horizontally to translate technical scientific breakthroughs with the outside world. Responsibilities : - Translate complex quantum computing concepts, research, and product developments into clear, accessible content across formats including web, blog, presentations, and thought leadership. - Develop “technical highlights” that showcase IonQ’s innovation and differentiate our approach in the market. - Partner closely with R&D teams to understand key workstreams, milestones, and priorities to build a structured content pipeline. - Ensure technical accuracy while tailoring messaging to both technical and non-technical audiences. - Support R&D leaders in preparing for external engagements such as conferences, panels, and publications. - Align technical content with broader company messaging, product positioning, and corporate priorities. - Track developments across the quantum ecosystem to identify opportunities for IonQ thought leadership. - Enable scientists and engineers to effectively communicate their work externally. - Work closely with the communications team to position and translate technical achievements across audiences. Requirements: - 2 years of professional experience in technical writing, scientific communication, or related fields. - Bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, computer science, or a related field. - Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives. - Experience working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to operate with autonomy and influence across senior stakeholders. - 2 years experience in technical writing, scientific communication, or related fields through a Ph.D. program, corporation, research lab or other technical field. Preferred Qualifications: - Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in a relevant field. - Direct experience within the quantum computing or deep tech industry. - Experience supporting prototype-to-product transitions in a communications capacity. The approximate base salary range for this position is $113K - 155K . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $112,800 - $155,800 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Quantum Field Engineer - Singapore
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Singapore Travel: 40% Job ID: 1918 The Role: We are looking for a Senior Quantum Field Engineer to join our Field Engineering team at IonQ in Singapore. In this role, you will sit at the intersection of customers, markets, products, algorithms, applications and strategy, helping clients understand how IonQ’s quantum technologies can be applied to real business and technical challenges. You’ll play an important part in helping IonQ build the world’s best quantum solutions by turning early customer interest into meaningful technical exploration, proofs of concept and ultimately production workflows. This is a highly technical, customer facing role where credibility, clarity and technical correctness come first. Responsibilities : In this position, you will work closely with customers, sales, product, applications, marketing, developer relations and engineering teams to explain IonQ’s portfolio, uncover client needs, shape technical solutions and support the growth of IonQ’s quantum computing business across Singapore and the wider APAC market. You’ll have the opportunity to inspire prospective customers, lead technical discovery, translate business needs into technical workstreams and help bring quantum algorithms and applications to life across areas such as financial services, bioscience, chemistry, materials, optimisation, generative AI and other emerging domains. • Lead customer facing technical discussions, demos and discovery sessions, explaining IonQ’s strategy, portfolio and quantum applications across compute, networking, security, sensing and space. • Translate client business needs into technical projects, working with IonQ’s Applications team to map quantum algorithms into application code and execute proofs of concept. • Work hands on in Python and quantum SDKs to prototype, adapt and explain existing quantum algorithms for specific customer use cases. • Guide customer conversations from early ideation through focused technical exploration, proof of concept development and potential production workflows. • Share market and customer insights with Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, Developer Relations and Business Development teams, while supporting conferences, events and awareness building activities. Requirements: To be successful in this role, you’ll bring strong technical foundations, excellent customer facing communication skills and a genuine interest in helping organisations understand where quantum computing can create value. We’re looking for someone who can adapt their communication to different levels of technical depth, build trust with customers, handle competitive objections and work effectively across both commercial and technical teams. You’ll bring 5+ years of experience in a technical customer facing role such as field engineering, solutions architecture, technical sales, customer engineering or applied science, and a Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering or another relevant STEM field. Hands on experience with Python and with Qiskit, Cirq or another quantum computing SDK is required, together with practical experience of existing quantum algorithms and how they map to real customer problems. Preferred Qualifications: • A Master’s or PhD in a relevant STEM field. • Experience delivering proofs of concept with customers, from early exploration through to working code. • Customer side industry experience in areas such as financial services, bioscience, chemistry, materials or optimisation. • Executive presence and experience representing a business at client meetings, events and conferences. • Broader software architecture skills alongside your quantum computing work. The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Quantum Network Support Engineer
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role is based onsite at our office in Chattanooga, TN and can work remotely up to 3 days per week. Travel: Normally about 25% to customer sites, including international travel; longer continuous on-site periods during commissioning Job ID: 1936 The Role: IonQ builds quantum network data centers as a distinct product line, providing infrastructure that enables researchers and customers to run distributed quantum experiments. We're looking for a Quantum Network Support Engineer to join our team supporting these networks once they're built and handed off. This role can be hands-on. You'll work with fiber optics, photon detectors, interferometers, and other quantum network hardware in both lab and datacenter environments. You'll also work directly with customers, helping translate their experimental needs into working network topologies. Candidates with backgrounds in photonics, fiber optics, optical engineering, or physics are encouraged to apply. The role normally involves about 25% travel to customer sites, including international travel. Commissioning phases may require longer continuous periods on site Responsibilities : • Maintain quantum network hardware, including fiber interconnects, passive optical components, and control electronics in datacenter rack environments. • Assist in commissioning new quantum network deployments at customer sites, including extended on-site assignments as networks come online. • Characterize network performance after changes using instruments such as OTDRs, power meters, polarimeters, and photon detectors. • Respond to support tickets to troubleshoot network faults: trace logical and physical signal paths, isolate root causes, resolve issues or implement workarounds, and communicate changes to affected customers. • Consult with researchers and customers on network topology design: translating experimental requirements into loss-budgeted fiber path plans that account for distance, polarization, and timing constraints. • Document network configurations, characterization data, and procedures in a clear and accessible way. Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in physics, optics, electrical engineering, or a related science. • Hands-on comfort with fiber optic handling: connectors, cleaning, and slack management. • Familiarity with basic networking concepts: IP addressing, subnets, interfaces, LAN/WAN. • Strong written and verbal communication. You'll support users ranging from graduate students to principal investigators across technical and non-technical contexts. • A systematic troubleshooting mindset. Able to isolate a problem methodically and comfortable saying "I don't know, let me find out." • Desire to learn and improve through training and self-study. • Willingness to work flexible hours and travel to customer sites, including extended periods on site during commissioning. Preferred Qualifications: • Experience with optical test equipment: OTDR, optical power meters, fiber scopes, and visual fault locators. • Hands-on lab experience in quantum or classical optics. • Working knowledge of quantum networking concepts. • Experience with Python or other scripting languages. • A background in data analysis or data science. • Background in atomic or optical physics. Experience with laser stabilization, AOMs, or vacuum systems is a strong plus. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $124,000 - $155,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Staff Software Engineer, System Orchestration
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Oxford, UK Office commitment: Hybrid The Role: 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 within two years, and all of that has to be kept in tune - settings that drift over minutes, hours and days. Without it a computer does not stop; it quietly starts producing invalid output. Calibration routines, scientists' experiments and customer workloads all compete for physical hardware, and our team builds the control plane that arbitrates that: it schedules and prioritises programs, hands exclusive access to one at a time and takes it back cooperatively, streams results while a program is still running, and keeps the record of everything that ran. It runs on every quantum computer in our fleet. Its job is to keep that machine busy and productive: running quantum programs rather than waiting in between, and running them in spec - on a machine still hitting the fidelity it is meant to hit. The ambition is for that to run without a person in the loop: machines that assess their own readiness, call for the calibrations they need, and keep a full history of how they were tuned. You'd work closely with the runtime team who own real-time control, the systems teams who build and maintain our quantum computers, and the operators and scientists who run them. This is a hands-on engineering role: you would be writing this software alongside our other staff engineers, not directing others who write it. You'll play an important part in shaping the services that support our work in building the world's most advanced quantum systems. Previous exposure to quantum systems is not required. Responsibilities : In this position, you will work across the services that make up the control plane, supporting the effective delivery of a system every machine in the fleet depends on. You'll have the opportunity to remove whole classes of failure and raise the bar for the engineers around you, contributing directly to the success of the System Software function. Key responsibilities include: - Take on the problems that span the whole control plane - the durability and recovery contracts the rest of the design rests on. - Make a machine's own assessment of its readiness something the rest of the control plane can rely on.Do the deep diagnosis of failures that only appear on a live system, under real load. - Remove whole classes of failure across the fleet, rather than instances of them. - Draw the boundaries between our services, settle them in writing, and move the code across them yourself. - Make the correctness of a design demonstrable rather than argued. - Build the tooling and test infrastructure that let the whole team move faster. - Evolve how our services are deployed and operated as the fleet grows. - Raise the bar of everyone around you through the code you write and the reviews you give. Requirements: To be successful, you will need deep systems engineering experience, a track record of operating services where losing data is not an option, and the judgement to tell a problem worth solving structurally from one worth patching. We're looking for someone who wants to stay hands-on in the code at this level and can contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team. You'd be a great fit with: - Expert systems engineering skills. Our System Orchestration layer is written in Rust, so either solid Rust experience or deep proficiency in another systems language and the appetite to work in a Rust codebase, including async programming. - Deep experience building and operating stateful networked services in production, exposed over gRPC or REST, with a real grasp of error handling, observability and failure modes. - A track record with data durability and correctness - persistence design, crash recovery, and migrations against live data you cannot afford to lose. We use PostgreSQL. - The instinct to reach for determinism when chasing a timing or interleaving bug, rather than for more logging. - Depth in the scheduling and workflow landscape - Temporal, Hatchet, Airflow, Slurm, Postgres-backed queues - and the judgement to borrow from it rather than reinvent. - A track record of pinning down failures that others could not. - A habit of settling design questions in writing, with the options compared as peers. - Excellent communication skills both within software and across disciplines. Additional useful experience would include replacing a load-bearing system while it stays in service, containerised services in production, Kubernetes and declarative deployment, distributed tracing, formal specification or model checking, closed-loop systems that act on measured state, and scientific computing or research facilities. Benefits Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Software Engineer, System Orchestration
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Oxford, UK Office commitment: Hybrid The Role: We are looking for an enthusiastic Software Engineer to join our System Orchestration team in System Software at Oxford Ionics. In this role, you will be responsible for building 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 within two years, and all of that has to be kept in tune - settings that drift over minutes, hours and days. Without it a computer does not stop; it quietly starts producing invalid output. Calibration routines, scientists' experiments and customer workloads all compete for physical hardware, and our team builds the control plane that arbitrates that: it schedules and prioritises programs, hands exclusive access to one at a time and takes it back cooperatively, streams results while a program is still running, and keeps the record of everything that ran. It runs on every quantum computer in our fleet. Its job is to keep that machine busy and productive: running quantum programs rather than waiting in between, and running them in spec - on a machine still hitting the fidelity it is meant to hit. The ambition is for that to run without a person in the loop: machines that assess their own readiness, call for the calibrations they need, and keep a full history of how they were tuned. You'd work closely with the runtime team who own real-time control, the systems teams who build and maintain our quantum computers, and the operators and scientists who run them. You will own features end to end, from the API through to the rollout onto real machines. You'll play an important part in shaping the services that support our work in building the world's most advanced quantum systems. Previous exposure to quantum systems is not required. Responsibilities : In this position, you will work on the services that schedule work onto our quantum computers and keep the record of it, supporting the effective delivery of a control plane the whole fleet depends on. You'll have the opportunity to own real pieces of that system end to end, contributing directly to the success of the System Software function. Key responsibilities include: - Build and extend the services that schedule work on our systems and keep the record of it. - Build the mechanisms that decide when a system needs re-tuning, and get those calibrations run. - Own what we persist: the data model, its migrations, and the code that reads and writes it. - Produce the tests and harnesses that let our code be exercised against real hardware and against simulators. - Work with the systems teams to roll releases out across the fleet and support them once they are running. - Improve the observability of the code you ship. - Take part in code review, and improve the APIs our internal users depend on Requirements: To be successful, you will need solid programming skills, an interest in the systems that keep long-running machines working, and either experience of a systems programming language or the appetite to learn one. We're looking for someone who can work comfortably in a Linux environment, cares about what happens to data when a service crashes or a migration goes wrong, and can contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team. You'd be a great fit with: - Strong programming skills in one or more mainstream programming languages. - Experience with a systems programming language. Our System Orchestration layer is written in Rust, so either some Rust experience or the appetite to learn it. - Comfort with relational databases and SQL; we use PostgreSQL. - Some exposure to networked services and APIs, such as gRPC or REST. - Exposure to schedulers, job queues or workflow engines - Celery, Airflow, Temporal, Slurm or similar. - Comfort working on Linux, and debugging a service that is already running. - Good communication skills both within software and across disciplines. - A habit of producing appropriate tests and taking part in code review. Additional useful experience would include async programming, containers and Kubernetes, closed-loop systems that act on measured state, and scientific computing or research facilities. Benefits Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Software Engineer, System Orchestration
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Oxford, UK Office commitment: Hybrid The Role: We are looking for a highly technical Senior 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 within two years, and all of that has to be kept in tune - settings that drift over minutes, hours and days. Without it a computer does not stop; it quietly starts producing invalid output. Calibration routines, scientists' experiments and customer workloads all compete for physical hardware, and our team builds the control plane that arbitrates that: it schedules and prioritises programs, hands exclusive access to one at a time and takes it back cooperatively, streams results while a program is still running, and keeps the record of everything that ran. It runs on every quantum computer in our fleet. Its job is to keep that machine busy and productive: running quantum programs rather than waiting in between, and running them in spec - on a machine still hitting the fidelity it is meant to hit. The ambition is for that to run without a person in the loop: machines that assess their own readiness, call for the calibrations they need, and keep a full history of how they were tuned. You'd work closely with the runtime team who own real-time control, the systems teams who build and maintain our quantum computers, and the operators and scientists who run them. This is a hands-on engineering role and stays that way as you grow in it. You'll play an important part in shaping the services that support our work in building the world's most advanced quantum systems. Previous exposure to quantum systems is not required. Responsibilities : This is a hands-on engineering role, balancing delivery of your own areas with support for the teams and scientists who depend on them. Key responsibilities include: - Own a group of device controllers end to end, covering API design, implementation, rollout and ongoing operational health. - Make services robust against the ways real instruments fail. - Bring devices onto our current framework, and roll the result out across the fleet without disrupting running experiments. - Improve the shared framework where a problem turns out to be common to many controllers rather than specific to one. - Work closely with the systems teams and scientists who depend on these services, and strengthen observability, health checking and alerting. - Raise the standard of the code around you through review, and bring less experienced engineers on by working alongside them. Requirements: To be successful, you will need experience building stateful services that stay correct under failure, and a track record of changing a load-bearing system while people depend on it. We're looking for someone who can own a problem area with little supervision and contribute effectively within a fast moving, highly technical team. You'd be a great fit with: - Strong systems engineering skills. Our System Orchestration layer is written in Rust, so either solid Rust experience or deep proficiency in another systems language and the appetite to work in a Rust codebase, including async programming. - Experience designing and operating networked services (such as gRPC or REST), with a real grasp of error handling, observability and failure modes. - Real experience with a relational database as a source of truth - schema design, migrations against live data, and transactions. We use PostgreSQL. - A track record of getting lifecycle and concurrency right: state machines, timeouts, leases, retries, and the failure modes that only show up under load. - Experience with a scheduler, workflow engine or job queue - Temporal, Airflow, Celery, Slurm, or one you built - or with event-driven systems that react to changes in state. - A habit of settling design questions in writing, with options weighed as peers. - Comfort owning the production behaviour of what you build, not just its correctness in test. - Excellent communication skills both within software and across disciplines. - An interest in helping other engineers get better at the craft, without wanting to stop building yourself. Additional useful experience would include running containerised services in production, Kubernetes, distributed tracing, closed-loop systems that act on measured state, and scientific computing or research facilities. Benefits Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Help Desk Analyst III
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role will work onsite at our office located in Bothell, WA. Travel: 10% domestic or international. Job ID: 1881 The Role: We are looking for HelpDesk Technician III. As a HelpDesk Technician III, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems. In this role, you will be responsible for receiving, prioritizing, documenting, and actively resolving end-user support. In addition, maintain industry-standard IT hardware, software, network, and mobile technology. The successful candidate will be self-motivated and driven, display excellent interpersonal skills and strong attention to detail, and thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment. Responsibilities : - Provide comprehensive IT support to over 1100 global users. - Perform one-on-one end-user problem resolution via phone, instant messaging, and in-person interactions. - Configure and deploy end-user desktop hardware, software, and peripherals. - Setup audio visual equipment for onsite meetings and earnings calls using Zoom. - Maintain, support and troubleshoot Neat Audio Visual equipment in offices. - Provide support to C-Level executives within Bothell and College Park Offices. - Train and continually support Tier I and II HelpDesk technicians. - Handle escalated complex or time-sensitive issues. - Provide hardware and application orientation and training sessions for new and existing IonQ employees when needed. - Provide comprehensive support for the user environment, including mobile device management, printing services, asset tracking, and daily workflow optimization. - Exhibit exceptional customer service and communication skills. Provide professional, empathetic assistance to address complex inquiries and ensure customer satisfaction. - Utilize advanced problem-solving and analytical abilities to make informed decisions for resolving complex technical issues and improving help desk operations. - Develop and maintain comprehensive technical documentation and processes for the team. - Maintain extensive knowledge of IT hardware and applications to provide comprehensive support and troubleshooting across diverse technologies. - Support Tier IV staff and IT Leadership as required. - Demonstrate high proficiency in incident, service, and change management. - Support Escalations & Documentation: Participate in an on-call rotation for critical application and network issues and guide the team in resolving Escalated Tier 1/2 helpdesk issues. Maintain immaculate IT Helpdesk documentation. - Establish and maintain robust documentation ensuring high-quality support for our customer base. - Standardize the capture of root-cause solutions, translating resolved issues into accessible, global knowledge-base articles for cross-functional teams. Requirements: - Bachelor's degree in IT or equivalent experience in end-user service desk support. - 3+ years of IT experience in a similar role, working with ITSM tools (Jira). - An understanding of IDP and MDM concepts and application of these technologies in a modern IT environment. - Working with different manufacturers for warranty repair work (Dell, Boxx, Apple). - Extensive experience supporting current hardware, software, and technologies. - Experience supporting SAS applications and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom). - Proven ability to work in a collaborative, team-oriented environment. - Exceptional interpersonal skills include rapport building, active listening, and questioning. Preferred Qualifications: - Understanding of SSH/RDP OS protocols and its use-cases - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Strong experience in Linux, Windows and MacOS environments. - Proficient in Google Workplace application support. - Knowledge of endpoint security solutions like CrowdStrike. - Familiarity with virtualization and cloud environments is essential (Parallels and VMware). - A solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP) is required. - Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to conduct research and root cause analysis. - Independent worker with strong motivation who can thrive in a team environment. - Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. - Strong organizational skills in a fast-paced environment. - Commitment to compliance and confidentiality. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. This role is non-exempt and eligible for overtime in accordance with company policies. The listed pay range below reflects the base hourly rate. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Hourly Wage Transparency $28 - $42 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Director, Channel - Space Solutions
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Remote, U.S. Travel: Up to 50%, domestic and international. Job ID: 1904 The Role: IonQ is hiring a Channel Sales Leader to build and scale the indirect route to market for its space portfolio including Capella Data as a Service (DaaS) and satellite systems, Skyloom optical communications terminals and crosslink solutions, and the broader space solutions offering. You will recruit, enable, and grow a global ecosystem of resellers, distributors, value-added analytics providers, systems integrators, primes, and in-country partners, and carry a channel-sourced revenue number. This is a builder's role for a leader who can stand up partner programs from early stage, run long-cycle capital and program-based pursuits through partners, and grow recurring data and capacity subscriptions at the same time. Responsibilities : - Own an annual channel-sourced and channel-influenced revenue quota spanning Capella DaaS subscriptions and tasking capacity, satellite systems, Skyloom optical communications products, and the wider space solutions portfolio. - Design and execute the global channel strategy: partner segmentation and tiering, coverage model by region and market, and the margin, discount, and deal-registration framework that governs it. - Recruit, onboard, and develop partners — resellers, distributors, value-added analytics and application providers, systems integrators, defense primes, and international in-country representatives. - Own joint business plans with each strategic partner: co-selling motions, joint pipeline generation, marketing development funds, quarterly business reviews, and accountability to committed targets. - Build partner enablement end to end — sales and technical training, certification paths, demo and evaluation assets, and pricing tools — in partnership with solutions engineering and product marketing. - Support partner-led and teamed pursuits: RFIs, RFPs, and government solicitations, prime and subcontractor teaming strategies, and international distribution structures within export-control requirements. - Forecast channel pipeline accurately in CRM and PRM, maintain disciplined pipeline hygiene, and administer clear rules of engagement to manage channel conflict with the direct sales team. - Serve as the voice of the partner ecosystem to product, engineering, and mission solutions teams, and represent IonQ at industry, defense, and geospatial conferences and partner events. Requirements: - 10+ years in enterprise sales with at least 4 years building or leading channel, partner, or indirect programs in geospatial data, earth observation, satellite communications, satellite systems, defense technology, or adjacent data/SaaS markets, with a consistent record of exceeding quota. - Demonstrated success standing up a channel program in an early or emerging market — recruiting partners, defining program economics, and scaling partner-sourced revenue across both recurring data subscriptions and large capital or program-based hardware. - Experience driving partner-led sales into U.S. government, defense, and intelligence customers as well as international markets, including familiarity with procurement vehicles, teaming arrangements, and export controls (ITAR/EAR). - Command of a structured sales methodology (MEDDICC, Challenger, or similar) plus deal-registration, margin governance, and CRM/PRM forecast rigor. - Ability to engage credibly with partner technical and mission stakeholders on remote sensing, SAR, optical communications and crosslinks, tasking, and data delivery workflows. - Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field; willingness to travel up to 50%, including international travel. Preferred Qualifications: - Direct experience building or managing a channel for SAR, optical imagery, or RF sensing data and analytics. - Background in satellite systems, optical communications terminals, ground segment, or space mission integration. - Experience in early market development or category creation for an emerging technology, including partner-led go-to-market. - Active U.S. security clearance, or eligibility to obtain one. - Established relationships across DoD, IC, allied international defense customers, and the global space and geospatial partner ecosystem. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $144,000 - $180,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Electrical Engineer
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: Our Control Electronics team designs every custom electronic assembly inside an IonQ quantum computer. The work is the control electronics that sit around the trap, and it is genuinely multidisciplinary: precision analogue, RF, mixed signal DAC and ADC design, FPGA and high speed logic layout, and the signal and power integrity that decide whether any of it works at the speeds we need. This is a board level design role, not silicon. You would split your time roughly evenly between design and simulation on one side and the bench on the other, because the team’s instinct is to build something physical and measure it rather than model it indefinitely. Some of what we are trying to make has to be better than we currently know how to measure it, which is the part most engineers find either alarming or irresistible. Responsibilities: You would own custom board designs from schematic capture and simulation through to a working prototype on the bench, characterising them with a wide range of test and measurement equipment, from oscilloscopes to spectrum analysers, and writing your own automated test scripts for evaluation. We do not mind which CAD tools you have used before, only that schematic capture and simulation are familiar ground. You would also contribute to design reviews across the team’s other projects, and come up to speed quickly on how the separate assemblies fit together as one machine. The product is being built to a schedule while its requirements are still moving, so a large part of the job is responding sensibly to change rather than defending the original plan. Key responsibilities include: - Design custom board level assemblies covering precision analogue, RF, mixed signal DAC and ADC, FPGA and high speed logic layout, with the signal and power integrity to match. - Take designs from schematic capture and simulation to working, measured prototypes. - Characterise your hardware with oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and your own automated test. - Contribute to design reviews across the team’s projects. - Work to a schedule while requirements are still moving. Requirements: You need real board level design experience with a substantial analogue component. Which corner of analogue you come from matters far less than being able to move between the time domain and the frequency domain without having to stop and think about it, because most of our harder problems live in both at once. You need to be comfortable in the lab, using test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analysers, and automating your own measurements. A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent industry experience is what we are looking for. A PhD is not required for this role. You’d be a great fit with: - A background in scientific instrumentation, test and measurement, aerospace or defence electronics, or other demanding measurement, control or signal generation hardware. - A master’s degree in electrical engineering or a related discipline. - FPGA and high speed digital experience alongside the analogue core. - Experience at a company scaling quickly, where engineers wear several hats. - A habit of prototyping early, being straight about what failed, and fixing it. This role is based in College Park, Maryland, with a minimum of three days a week on site. The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Physicist, Resilience Engineering & Operations
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: Oxford, UK Travel: Occasional Job ID: 1847 The Role: We are looking for a Physicist, System Operations to join our Resilience Engineering & Operations team at IonQ. In this role you will operate, maintain and improve our trapped-ion quantum computers, contributing to the team's mission of keeping our quantum systems running reliably, safely and effectively. You will take ownership of system maintenance and day to day operational performance, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our commercial and development systems remain available and well understood. This role sits at the intersection of physics, hardware operations and system reliability, and will help shape how we scale operational excellence across our quantum platforms. This is an on-site role based in Oxford, working alongside colleagues in Bothell, College Park and Daejeon. Responsibilities : You will work on the day to day operation, monitoring, maintenance and optimisation of complex quantum systems, supporting the effective delivery of high-performing commercial and development hardware. You will have the opportunity to improve uptime, strengthen maintenance practices and build a deeper operational understanding of system behaviour through hands-on work, data interpretation and close collaboration with technical teams across the business. - Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotations to support uptime and respond to system issues as they arise. - Take ownership of regular and emergency maintenance activities to keep systems running reliably. - Build and maintain observability, automation and operational practices that improve system performance and resilience. - Interpret telemetry and system behaviour to diagnose issues, guide troubleshooting and improve hardware understanding. - Work collaboratively across teams, time zones and occasionally locations, including coordinating access, communicating status and supporting training where needed. Requirements: To be successful you will need a strong experimental background in physics, optical engineering or a related physical science discipline, along with hands-on experience working with complex technical systems in a lab or hardware environment. We are looking for someone who can operate carefully in a fast-moving setting, communicate well across teams, and take practical ownership of keeping systems running. Preferred Qualifications: You'd be a great fit with: - A Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in physics, engineering or another relevant physical science discipline. - Hands-on experience in atomic, optical or closely related experimental environments, including optical setups, alignment and maintenance of complex hardware systems. - Strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to work effectively with distributed teams and varied stakeholders. - Flexibility to work as part of an on-call rotation, with regular on-site presence in Oxford and the ability to travel occasionally if required. - Experience with telemetry, data analysis, scripting or software tools such as Python or Rust, and ideally exposure to RF, analog, digital or precision control systems. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior Mechanical Engineer
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role At Oxford Ionics, now part of IonQ, we are building the first practical quantum computer. Our systems are based on ion traps, which hold individual atomic ions tens of microns above the surface of a chip, and we design and build them in house, bringing together optomechanics, vacuum and cryogenic technology, electronics and system infrastructure. We are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our Systems team and take ownership of mechanical design from first requirements through to manufacture and integration. You will work on the hardware that surrounds the quantum processor, including cryostat requirements, cooling equipment, vacuum chambers and supporting structures, often in areas where the requirements are not yet fully defined. Responsibilities: You will work alongside scientists, technicians and the wider hardware design teams to bring new systems through to manufacture. That means producing CAD designs, bills of materials and assembly drawings, managing documentation in our PLM system and working with suppliers and our manufacturing team. Our manufacturing team handles most assembly, but you will support technicians in the lab, investigate problems when they arise and make sure your designs can be built in practice. The work ranges from complex system layout to simple brackets and documentation, and you will see each piece through to completion. Key responsibilities include: - Mechanically integrate multiple sub systems into one complete system, driving the overall mechanical layout. - Produce 3D designs of system assemblies and infrastructure, with detailed 2D drawings and bills of materials. - Design systems for vacuum pump down, gas handling and coolant management lines. - Plan the routing of cables, optical fibre and other physical services throughout the system. - Gather and scope requirements with scientists and engineers, then roll out upgrades and variations to system builds. Requirements: You will be a mechanical engineer with a strong design background and a practical understanding of how things are assembled and manufactured. A degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience, and around five years of relevant industry experience will give you the grounding the role needs. We want someone proactive who asks questions, gathers requirements, spots the missing details and sees a job through. You will be comfortable working independently with a high degree of autonomy, while collaborating closely with scientists and engineers across disciplines. Quantum experience is not required. You’d be a great fit with: - Established CAD ability, ideally in SolidWorks, with a focus on assembly structure. - Experience of complex multidisciplinary systems and good assembly practice. - Experience with cryogenic or vacuum systems. - Familiarity with GD&T and preparing drawings for manufacture and inspection. - Experience of PLM systems or thermal analysis. The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
R&D Technician
PsiQuantum's mission is to build the first useful quantum computers: machines capable of delivering the breakthroughs the field has long promised. Since our founding in 2016, our singular focus has been to build and deploy million-qubit, fault-tolerant quantum systems. Quantum computers harness the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that even the most advanced supercomputers or AI systems will never reach. Their impact will span energy, pharmaceuticals, finance, agriculture, transportation, materials, and other foundational industries. Our architecture and approach is based on silicon photonics. By leveraging the advanced semiconductor manufacturing industry, including partners like GlobalFoundries, we use the same high-volume processes that already produce billions of chips for telecom and consumer electronics. Photonics offers natural advantages for scale: photons don't feel heat, are immune to electromagnetic interference, and integrate with existing cryogenic cooling and standard fiber-optic infrastructure. That approach has since been tested at the highest level of scrutiny the U.S. government applies to emerging technology, and it has held up. In 2025, PsiQuantum closed a $1 billion funding round that valued the company at $7 billion. In 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce signed a $100 million Letter of Intent under the CHIPS and Science Act, followed by a $125 million agreement with DARPA under Stage C of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, PsiQuantum's most valuable U.S. government agreement to date. This year, we also broke ground on our utility-scale quantum computer in Brisbane, Australia, and continued building out our Chicago site. Victor Peng, our CEO, and co-founder Jeremy O'Brien, now Executive Chairman, lead a team and board that reflects how seriously the world is taking this build, joined this year by Intel's Lip-Bu Tan and Atomico's Niklas Zennström. PsiQuantum also develops the algorithms and software needed to make these systems commercially valuable. Our application, software, and industry teams work directly with leading Fortune 500 companies, including Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Mercedes-Benz, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Mitsubishi Chemical, to prepare quantum solutions for real-world impact. Quantum computing is not an extension of classical computing. It represents a fundamental shift, and a path to mastering challenges that cannot be solved any other way. The potential is enormous, and we now have the funding, the government validation, and the sites under construction to make it real. Job Summary: PsiQuantum is building the world’s first commercially viable quantum computer powered by silicon photonics. Our Foundry Engineering team partners with leading semiconductor manufacturers and research partners to support advanced silicon-based photonic platforms that enable scalable quantum systems. In this role, you will support day-to-day foundry operations, wafer logistics, wafer inspection, data upload, inventory tracking, documentation, and office/lab coordination activities. This position is hands-on and highly operational, requiring strong attention to detail, clear communication, and consistent follow-through across multiple systems, tools, and partner sites. The ideal candidate will be organized, dependable, comfortable working with wafers and lab/office workflows, and able to support engineering teams by keeping wafer movement, documentation, inspection records, reports, and operational communications accurate and up to date. You will work closely with PsiQuantum engineers, operations teams, and other external partners to help ensure smooth execution of wafer processing and foundry-related activities. Responsibilities: - Support wafer handling activities, including FOSB mapping, wafer transfers, lot start documentation, and delivery of required documentation and materials to clean room. - Maintain accurate wafers in process (WIP) reports, wafer/FOSB inventory records and related tracking updates. - Update tool status and WIP reports twice per day and communicate key updates to the team. - Attend operations morning meetings, take clear notes, and distribute relevant action items, status updates, and operational information to the team. - Coordinate wafer and package logistics, including wafer shipments, shipping contacts, package pickup from Shipping & Receiving, and maintenance of shipping addresses, emails, and phone numbers. - Support lab, office, and partner-site operations, including lab activities, SP3 data collection and other operational systems. - Manage and operate a dedicated lab for wafer cryogenic testing including sample preparation, material acquisition, minor maintenance and remaining logistics needs. - Inspect wafers using optical microscopy, capture wafer images, and upload images and related records to support the engineering team. - Maintain an orderly office and shared work environment, including purchasing and restocking office supplies, lab supplies, snacks, and other recurring items for the regional offices. Experience/Qualifications: - High school diploma or equivalent required; associate degree, technical certification, or relevant semiconductor, manufacturing, or laboratory experience preferred. - Experience working in a semiconductor, cleanroom, laboratory, manufacturing, logistics, or technical operations environment required. - Strong attention to detail and ability to follow documented procedures accurately. - Comfortable handling wafers, wafer carriers, FOSBs, documentation packages, and related materials. - Ability to use inspection tools, capture images, upload files, and maintain accurate digital records. - Familiarity with wafer tracking systems, work request systems, inventory systems, or manufacturing execution systems is preferred. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple daily tasks, recurring reports, shipments, supplies, and documentation workflows. - Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to summarize meeting notes and share updates through Slack or similar communication platforms. - Ability to work independently, escalate issues appropriately, and support engineers and operations teams in a fast-paced technical environment. - Proficiency with basic computer tools such as Microsoft Office, spreadsheets, file upload systems, and web-based workflow tools. - Dependable, hands-on, and proactive approach to maintaining operational readiness, inventory accuracy, and an orderly work environment. PsiQuantum provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. PsiQuantum does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable laws. Note: PsiQuantum will only reach out to you using an official PsiQuantum email address and will never ask you for bank account information as part of the interview process. Please report any suspicious activity to recruiting@psiquantum.com . We are not accepting unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. Base pay is one part of the total compensation package. Full-time roles are eligible for equity and benefits. Our compensation ranges reflect the cost of labor across multiple U.S. geographic markets, and we pay based on defined geographic zones. This position may be filled within one of the following U.S. geographic zones, each with its own salary range. Actual compensation may vary outside of these ranges and is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's qualifications, relevant education and training, competencies, experience, geographic location, business needs, and internal equity. Your recruiter can share more details about the salary range applicable to your location during the hiring process. - Zone 1 - Bay Area and NYC - Zone 2 - Examples include Los Angeles and Washington DC - Zone 3 - Examples include Austin, Chicago, and Sacramento - Zone 4 - Examples include Nashville and Phoenix/Tempe and many remote locations This position includes the following benefits: competitive health coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) with company match, equity grants, access to financial wellness tools and planning resources, wellness benefits, family support programs, life and disability insurance, paid leave programs, company-designated paid holidays, discretionary time off (DTO), and an end-of-year company shutdown. Some of these benefits have eligibility requirements and may vary based on location, role, or employment status. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company. The e s timated annual base salary range for this role is: Zone 1 $85,200 - $100,100 USD Zone 2 $76,700 - $90,100 USD Zone 3 $68,200 - $80,100 USD Zone 4 $59,700 - $70,100 USD
Technical Programme Manager, Quantum Benchmarking
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: IonQ is building quantum computers that will reach utility scale, and the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative run by DARPA is one of the most demanding independent tests of that ambition. Through the initiative, teams of government experts verify and validate successive generations of our systems, and contractual milestones depend on IonQ demonstrating clear, credible progress against an agreed plan. This role sits in our Architecture team in College Park, Maryland, and is the connection between internal quantum computer development at IonQ and the initiative. You will turn internal engineering plans into a single schedule that a technically sophisticated customer can trust, and you will manage the deliverables, reviews and site visits that come with it. It suits someone who understands the physics well enough to hold their own with national laboratory experts, and who has also learned the programmatics that keep a government contract on track. Responsibilities: You will integrate the schedules of several internal quantum computer development efforts into one master schedule that shows our path to fault tolerant, utility scale quantum computing, and you will present it to government customers and their technical experts. You will track risk burndown across those efforts and forecast it honestly, so that anything threatening a contractual milestone is surfaced and mitigated early rather than discovered late. You will own the external deliverables, including architecture documentation, verification and validation documentation, and the commissioning and delivery of systems into government laboratories. That means negotiating the structure, quality and content of deliverables with government evaluators, balancing internal engineering milestones against verification activity, and organising customer site visits and status reviews with the right internal experts in the room. Some analysis will look ahead to architectures beyond the systems in build today, so you will be comfortable working with ambiguity. Key responsibilities include: - Build and maintain a government quality integrated master schedule across internal development efforts. - Track, forecast and report risk to upcoming contractual milestones. - Manage architecture, verification and validation deliverables with government evaluation teams. - Plan the commissioning and delivery of quantum computers to customer sites. - Organise customer site visits, technical reviews and status reporting. Requirements: You will have a strong grounding in quantum technology, ideally atomic, molecular and optical physics, and around five years of experience in a broader technical role where you worked close to the hardware. That depth matters because the customer is technically sophisticated, and planning credible schedules for them means understanding what the engineering actually involves. You will also have learned the programmatics. You will have worked as a technical program manager, project engineer or systems engineer, led across a matrixed organisation without direct authority, and kept complex schedules and deliverables under control. A PhD in physics or equivalent practical experience is typical for this role, and you will need to be able to obtain a US security clearance. You’d be a great fit with: - Experience with trapped ion or other qubit technologies. - Systems engineering experience on defence or government contracts. - Experience working with government test and evaluation teams or national laboratories. - Experience building integrated master schedules for government customers. - An active US security clearance. This role is based in College Park, Maryland, with a minimum of three days on site each week. The total compensation package includes base salary, bonus, equity, and a range of benefits available on our career site. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $1 - $1 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Test and Inspection Engineer
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: IonQ is building the packaging and test capability behind the next generations of trapped ion quantum computers. Inspection of ion trap chips is already demanding on current devices, and it gets considerably harder as the critical area of each chip grows by orders of magnitude. The next device generation arrives in the middle of next year, and our inspection process has to be ready for it. This role owns automated optical inspection from end to end, from the equipment itself through to the data and the reporting that comes out of it. You will take a process that is currently manual, slow and not yet catching everything we need it to catch, and turn it into something repeatable that scales. It is a high ownership role in the QPU Production team in College Park, Maryland, and it exists because this problem now deserves its own engineer. Responsibilities: You will own our automated optical inspection capability for ion trap chips and packaged Quantum Processing Units, both before and after packaging. That covers the equipment itself, the inspection recipes that detect and classify micron scale defects across electrical and optical features, the calibration and maintenance that keep results consistent, and the training and procedures that let operators and engineers run the tool and get the same answer. Alongside the inspection, you will build the systems that capture, store and report test and inspection data. That means defining how data flows from the tools into a central record, producing certificates of conformance for trap chips and QPUs, and establishing traceability so that every device has a complete and retrievable test and imaging history to support yield analysis and root cause work. You will have real freedom over how results are captured and reported, working with the science, photonics and CMOS teams on what we are inspecting for and why. Key responsibilities include: - Own the automated optical inspection platform, from installation and programming through to qualification, calibration and uptime. - Develop inspection recipes that reliably detect and classify micron scale defects. - Build automated capture, storage and reporting of trap chip and QPU test data. - Produce certificates of conformance that are repeatable and auditable. - Work with equipment vendors on selection, acceptance and troubleshooting. Requirements: We are looking for someone who has owned, programmed or deployed automated inspection, machine vision or optical metrology equipment in a laboratory or a manufacturing setting, and who is comfortable writing the code that sits around it. You will not be reviewing images one at a time, because the point of the role is to make that unnecessary. A degree in engineering, physics, optics, materials science or a related technical field is a good route in, as is equivalent hands on experience. Wafer level inspection is much closer to this work than surface mount inspection. Disposition matters as much as the background. This capability is being built rather than maintained, so we need someone who will ask the science team why a specification is written the way it is, and who is content to work through a problem nobody has fully defined yet. If you have strong inspection and automation experience and the curiosity to pick up the data and reporting side, we would rather hear from you than not. You’d be a great fit with: - Three or more years with automated inspection, machine vision or optical metrology. - Strong Python or similar, applied to instrument control, image processing or data automation. - Experience organising technical data, for example databases, pipelines or automated reporting. - A semiconductor, advanced packaging, photonics or MEMS background, ideally with some materials characterisation. - Comfortable working hands on in a cleanroom or laboratory environment. This role is based at our College Park office in Maryland, with a minimum of three days on site each week. If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: $124,000 - $186,000 USD Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Sr Staff/Principal Laser Design Engineer
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! We are hiring a Laser Design Engineer to join our laser module development team. In this role, you will own the design of high-power laser epitaxy and laser devices—including DFB, DBR, and external-cavity architectures—for Lightmatter’s integrated and highly scalable laser solutions for AI communications and computation. You will drive designs from epitaxial layer stack through cavity and device architecture, working closely with colleagues and cross-disciplinary engineering teams internally and across our ecosystem of manufacturing partners to translate system requirements into robust, manufacturable, high-reliability hardware. This role requires deep expertise in semiconductor laser and epitaxy design, a strong command of laser and semiconductor device physics, and the judgment to navigate the design space of performance, schedule, reliability, power consumption, and cost. As a senior technical anchor, you will plan and execute across multiple concurrent programs, resolve critical and often ambiguous technical challenges with limited oversight, develop new methods and design approaches, and serve as a recognized internal subject-matter expert. Creativity, analytical rigor, and clear communication are essential. Join a tight-knit team where each individual’s contributions directly influence the success of the company and product. You’ll have the opportunity to build innovative laser solutions from the ground up and tackle groundbreaking challenges. Work with people who love to build and who thrive in diverse technical environments where great ideas are prioritized. Responsibilities - Own the design of high-power laser epitaxial structures and laser devices—including DFB, DBR, and external-cavity architectures. - Design epitaxial layer stacks in III-V material systems, optimizing for optical gain, carrier confinement, threshold current density, wall-plug efficiency, and high-temperature performance. - Optimize laser cavity designs to achieve target output power, precise wavelength control, narrow linewidth, high side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR), low relative intensity noise (RIN), and robust back-reflection tolerance. - Contribute to monolithic and silicon-photonics heterogeneously integrated laser and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) development. - Use physics-based and traveling-wave simulation tools to model heterostructure and cavity behavior, spectral response, and tuning, translating high-level system needs into detailed device designs. - Partner with the characterization team to define test beds and map measured L-I-V curves, near-/far-field profiles, thermal coefficients, and linewidth back to design parameters, iterating to close performance gaps. - Collaborate across disciplines—systems, analog/electrical, packaging, and thermal engineering—to define component-level specs derived from link budgets, co-design drivers and submounts, and define optical coupling and thermal-management strategies. - Work with epitaxy and foundry vendors to specify, qualify, and transfer designs into volume manufacturing. - Act as an internal subject-matter expert and thought leader on laser device and epi design; mentor engineers, review designs, and contribute to the laser technology roadmap for performance, scalability, power, and cost. - Publish and present novel ideas, and participate in premier photonics conferences. Requirements - A Ph.D. in Photonics, Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, Materials Science, or a related discipline with at least 5 years of relevant post-degree experience; or an M.S. with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience. - Deep, hands-on expertise in semiconductor laser and epitaxy design for III-V compound semiconductor devices. - Proven track record designing DFB, DBR, and/or external-cavity lasers. - Strong grounding in laser physics and semiconductor device physics (optical gain, threshold, slope efficiency, RIN, linewidth, thermal rollover, and back-reflection behavior). - Proficiency with physics-based laser and photonic device simulation tools (e.g., PhotonDesign Harold/PICWave, VPIphotonics, Lumerical, or equivalent) and data analysis in Python. - Demonstrated ability to independently own complex designs spanning multiple programs, and to resolve critical, ambiguous technical issues as a recognized subject-matter expert. - Track record of close collaboration with characterization/test teams and cross-functional hardware teams. - Ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with strong and clear communication. Preferred Qualifications - Experience with silicon photonics and heterogeneous integration of III-V gain material on silicon. - Experience designing semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). - Experience with high power semiconductor lasers for datacom applications. - Experience maturing a laser product from prototype through high-volume manufacturing, including epi growth and reliability qualification. - A record of publishing novel photonics results and engaging with the broader optics community. - Willing and able to learn quickly, self-starter with a “no task is too big or small” attitude. We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution. $212,000 - $320,000 USD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Senior Photonics Design Automation Engineer
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! We are hiring a Photonics PDK Design Automation Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will develop our internal Process Design Kit (PDK). You will act as the architect of our component library, bridging the gap between photonics device design and system-level verification. You will develop robust flow ensuring that our simulation environment accurately predicts the behavior of our physical layouts. You will work heavily in Python, EDA tools, applying software engineering rigor to the challenges of photonic hardware design. Responsibilities - Develop and maintain a library of pcells using Python-based layout frameworks. Ensure strict synchronization between physical layout, logical netlists, and behavioral models. - Develop and maintain custom photonic Layout vs Schematic (LVS) decks across multiple foundry technologies - Design and test device and parameter extraction for innovative photonic devices - Troubleshoot and resolve LVS mismatches in complex analog and photonic circuits - Actively collaborate with design, layout, modeling, and infrastructure engineers to deliver high impact tape-outs - Automated Verification: Implement regression testing and Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines to ensure PDK updates do not break legacy designs or connectivity logic. - Contribute to other PDK, DRC, and automation projects as needed Qualifications - Masters or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Photonics, or related field. - Prior experience in performing physical layout using foundry-provided process design kits (PDKs), adhering to specific design rules and constraints. - Experience with photonics layout - Python based layout experience. Comfortable with object-oriented programming and scientific libraries (NumPy, SciPy). - Experience writing software and scripts in languages such as Python, SVRF, Tcl, Bash, and SKILL - In-depth knowledge of integrated photonic devices, analog devices, and parasitics - In-depth knowledge of foundry process (SOI, etching, implants, metal stacks) - Proficiency with Linux environments, advanced version control (Git), and software engineering best practices - Demonstrated strong problem solving skills for problems without obvious solutions Preferred Qualifications - 1+ years experience in LVS deck development for Siemens Calibre, Cadence Pegasus, and/or Synopsys IC Validator, experience troubleshooting and resolving LVS mismatches in complex circuit designs - Proficiency with python-based layout tools such as gdstk, GDSFactory, and KLayout - Experience with Git setup, version control, unit testing (pytest), and CI/CD workflows. - Experience with DRC deck and rule development - Experience working on large-scale designs using industry standard environments such as Cadence Virtuoso - Excellent communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams - Strong project execution skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities and meet project milestones We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution. $165,000 - $200,000 USD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Principal Field Application Engineer
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! We are now looking for an outstanding Field Application Engineer - High-speed I/O Specialist to join our team. The role’s primary responsibility is to work collaboratively with customers in architecting the next generation of devices enabled by Lightmatter’s photonic interconnect technology Passage. In this role, you will work closely with Tier 1 Semiconductor companies that are defining the next generation of silicon in the data center. You will be working cross functionally within Lightmatter as you define an optimal technical solution. Additionally, you will be collaborating with customers who are domain experts in high-speed serial links (SerDes) and protocols. You should be comfortable supporting deep technical discussions focused on high-speed serial I/O design. Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work independently are essential to being successful in the role. Responsibilities - Provide the full technical support of the customer HSIO design, including the early technical assessment, design scheme discussion, hardware design review, hardware debug support and other critical trouble shootings - Develop and deliver technical proposals to customers, based on customer’s technical requirements and system architecture - Work as the field expert on HSIO area, to provide the in-depth training and guidance of the HSIO design to the FAE team, to create and share the related technical articles and reference designs - Work collaboratively with Lightmatter Engineering in supporting customer design wins and communicating progress updates to customer engineering leads Requirements - BS or MS in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science (or equivalent experience). - 10+ years of work related experience in a high-tech electronics industry with high-speed serial I/O design, including transceiver architecture, CDR, DFE or other - In-depth knowledge of the signal integrity, power integrity simulation and the related hardware design. Be familiar with the SI/PI EDA simulation tools and models, eg. Keysight ADS. - Customer facing skill-set and background as well as the ability to communicate effectively with customers - Action-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Previous experience developing and delivering technical presentations to both executive management and cross-functional engineering teams and external clients - Built trusted working relationships across teams, improving coordination and execution speed - Experience working with silicon photonics and/or optical transceiver - In-depth knowledge of semiconductor and laser technology Preferred Qualifications - Familiar with the digital signal processing theory and the related tools, like Matlab Simulink. - Analog signal and mixed signal design, ADC, DAC design experience - C, C++ and other software experience - Experience working in customer facing role acting as the domain expert for silicon photonics/optics - Experience deploying or supporting customers who are deploying optics in a data center environment at scale We offer competitive compensation. On target earnings range is listed below. The final compensation will be determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Sales Compensation $250,000 - $300,000 USD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! In this role, you will design, develop, and build photonic test systems that are critical to the characterization and validation of our products. You will collaborate closely with device, hardware, software, and digital and analog design teams to support the end-to-end development, validation, and qualification of photonic systems and their key components. Join a tight-knit team where each individual’s contributions directly impact the success of the company and our innovative products. At Lightmatter, you’ll have the opportunity to work with people who love to build and thrive in technically diverse environments where great ideas are valued and prioritized. We are hiring a Photonics Hardware Validation Engineer to join our Validation team to drive photonics testing, characterization and validation of our silicon photonics-based optical Interconnect Products. Responsibilities - You will need to understand our chip specifications well so that you can take responsibility for chip bring-up, testing, and validation of our next-generation Optical Interconnect products. This includes supporting the development of chip validation plans aligned to product specifications, xDVT, and interoperability testing. - You will be required to contribute to test plan development, test bench configuration planning, setup of lab test equipment, and troubleshooting of validation setups to enable successful chip bring-up and testing. - You will work within the product validation team on electro-optic, link-level testing in our lab using industry-standard practices and equipment. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related field. - Hands-on experience with standard bench test equipment for data communications, including electro-optic link testing and characterization. - Experience in the data communications field, specifically in electro-optic link-level testing and characterization in a lab environment. - Familiarity with PCB design, including hardware testing and debugging of electro-optic circuits. - Ability to work closely with Design Engineers, Software Engineers, and broader cross-functional teams to quickly gain knowledge of Lightmatter products and drive execution of chip bring-up and validation in our lab. - Basic scripting skills for automation of lab tests including analysis of results and report generation. - Solid understanding of electrical and optical blocks in transmitters and receivers to enable efficient chip bring-up and link testing. - Ability to troubleshoot and debug the electrical optical building blocks in a transceiver to triage bugs and root-cause performance gaps. Preferred Qualifications: - PhD is a plus - Experience with high-speed data communication systems, including NRZ and PAM4 signaling. - Familiarity with industry standards such as IEEE, OIF-CEI, or similar for data communication systems. - Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for scripting and automation. - Strong documentation skills to develop clear test plans, reports, and technical presentations. - Prior experience in leading or mentoring junior engineers in lab validation and testing workflows. We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution. $177,000 - $240,000 USD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Photonics Architect
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! Lightmatter builds chips that enable extreme-scale AI computing clusters. If you're a collaborative engineer or scientist who has a passion for innovation, solving challenging technical problems and doing impactful work, consider joining the team at Lightmatter! We are hiring a Photonics Architect. The selected candidate will partner with the internal engineering team to deliver groundbreaking products to the market. As an architect, you will provide detailed technical documents that describe what needs to be built to the engineering team. This will require a solid understanding of process technology, state of the art in photonics design, and clear communication skills. In this role, you will be defining the (micro-)architecture for a ground-breaking photonic-based communication fabric. From component-level design to top-level layout, you will be part of a team that enables high-bandwidth low-latency photonic interconnect/switch fabric. You will report directly to the Sr. Director of Architecture, but you will also work closely with our photonic and analog teams to define and optimize the features needed to improve the power, performance, and area (PPA) of the next generation product. Join a tight-knit team where each individual’s contributions directly influence the success of the company and product. You'll have the opportunity to build a new kind of computer from the ground up and to solve groundbreaking challenges along the way. Work with people who love to build and who thrive in technically diverse environments where great ideas are prioritized. Responsibilities: - Propose innovative photonic designs—modulators, receivers, multiplexers, lasers, amplifiers—for the product. - Work closely with the photonic engineering design team to provide the performance, power, and area estimates of the photonic devices within Passage. - Actively collaborate with the analog engineering team to provide a high-bandwidth photonic interconnect solution. - Author, review, and validate architectural specifications. Qualifications: - PhD in electrical engineering, physics, applied physics, or a discipline related to photonics. - In-depth knowledge of photonic devices and semiconductor physics. - Experience with integrated silicon photonics components. Preferably has experience with photonic simulation tools: FDTD, umerical, Verilog-A, VPI Photonics. - Ability and desire to collaborate in a cross-disciplinary team. - Demonstrated strong problem solving skills specifically pertaining to problems that do not have obvious solutions. We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution. $118,000 - $171,000 CAD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Director, Photonics Hardware Validation
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure, enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world’s first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage™, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads. Lightmatter raised $400 million in its Series D round, reaching a valuation of $4.4 billion. We will continue to accelerate the development of data center photonics and grow every department at Lightmatter! If you're passionate about tackling complex challenges, making an impact, and being an expert in your craft, join our team of brilliant scientists, engineers, and accomplished industry leaders. Lightmatter is (re)inventing the future of computing with light! In this pivotal role within Silicon Engineering, you will own the end-to-end post-silicon validation strategy and execution across optical, electrical, and system level. You will collaborate directly with Silicon Design, Laser, Packaging, Software, and Supply Chain leadership to architect scalable lab infrastructure, drive automated testing frameworks, and ensure our products meet world-class reliability standards for hyperscale AI data centers. Responsibilities - Scale the product validation team by recruiting, mentoring, and developing multi-disciplinary talent across optical, electrical, software, and automation domains. - Drive silicon and platform validation strategies, requirements, and execution plans for our optical interconnect platform. - Architect and define comprehensive, at-scale validation environments, test frameworks, automated test suites, and telemetry data collection workflows. - Analyze silicon and system architecture to identify integration risks, design gaps, and marginality issues requiring rigorous corner validation. - Oversee the execution of validation plans, leading technical triage and root-cause debug for hardware, firmware, and system-level issues. - Partner closely with Silicon, Packaging, Hardware, and Software teams to align validation coverage with design specifications and system requirements. - Influence pre-silicon design and simulation milestones to ensure feature completeness, advocating for validation hooks, telemetry sensors, and diagnostic monitors on-chip and on reference platforms. - Drive hardware and software automation initiatives to enhance testing throughput, repeatability, and data analytics capabilities across validation labs. Qualifications - BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Photonics, Physics, or a related technical field. - 12+ years of semiconductor or hardware validation experience, with significant exposure to optical/photonics link-level products. - Strong technical background in laser, optics, or silicon photonics architecture and characterization. - 5+ years of experience developing test content, automation infrastructure, and scripting in Python or C++. - Proven leadership track record managing cross-functional engineering teams in a fast-paced environment working on transceivers or link-level products. - Solid understanding of industry standard requirements (IEEE, MSA, OIF) and product validation through corner testing (temperature, voltage, and process matrices), including defining validation plans and generating validation reports. - Demonstrated ability to establish process improvements, test methodologies, and data analysis workflows. Preferred Qualifications - Excellent technical leadership, communication, and cross-functional project management skills. - Proven track record of successfully leading multiple link-level products through validation and high-volume production release. - Experience scaling engineering teams through hypergrowth, establishing career development frameworks, and fostering a high-performance environment. - Demonstrated capability to align executive stakeholders on technical roadmaps, resource trade-offs, and risk mitigation strategies. We offer competitive compensation. The base salary range for this role determined based on location, experience, educational background, and market data. Salary Range: total compensation goes beyond base salary, it also includes a new hire equity grant, annual performance-based equity, and other rewards that recognize your impact and contribution. $261,000 - $300,000 USD Benefits - Comprehensive Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Savings Matching Program - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Generous Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Paid Family Leave - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development - Commuter Benefits - Flexible, hybrid workplace model - Equity grants (applicable to full-time employees) Benefits eligibility may vary depending on your employment status and location. Lightmatter recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. Export Control Candidates should have capacity to comply with the federally mandated requirements of U.S. export control laws.
Photonics Sensing Architect
Our mission at Oura is to empower every person to own their inner potential. Our award-winning products help our global community gain a deeper knowledge of their readiness, activity, and sleep quality by using their Oura Ring and its connected app. We've helped millions of people understand and improve their health by providing daily insights and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles. Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work — both in and out of the office. We are looking for a collaborative, impact-driven Photonics Sensing Engineer who will help engineer, evaluate, and design new optical technologies. You will be working closely with our Director of Hardware Sensing out of the San Francisco office to help define, validate, and translate requirements alongside hardware and cross-functional stakeholders. What You Will Do: Sensor Architecture & Design - Define, prototype and validate new sensors (optical like raman, spectroscopy, photoacoustic, QCL etc) for low-power wearable platforms. - Translate sensing requirements into robust hardware specifications aligned with product goals. - Development & Integration - Lead integration of optical sensors into Oura hardware, ensuring calibration, noise management, power efficiency, and high-quality signal acquisition. - Design and execute sensor characterization and validation tests from prototype through production. Cross-Functional Leadership - Collaborate with firmware, algorithm, and systems teams to ensure accurate motion data feeds into Oura’s signal processing and machine learning stacks. - Contribute to product planning and sensor roadmap discussions based on performance feedback and technology advances. Testing & Validation - Develop and maintain rigorous test methodologies, metrics, and automation frameworks for motion sensor performance evaluation. - Analyze sensor data to diagnose edge cases and performance bottlenecks and define corrective actions. Supplier & Partner Coordination - Engage with sensor vendors, partners, and manufacturers to assess technology options, secure components, and optimize integration into mass-production workflows. - Documentation & Communication - Produce clear technical documentation of sensor designs, trade studies, test plans, and performance metrics. - Present findings and recommendations to engineering leadership and cross-disciplinary stakeholders. This is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office. What you'll bring - 5+ years of optical and electrode sensor or similar sensor design and integration roles. - Experience with optical and electrode sensors, and low-power embedded sensor interfaces. - Strong background in sensor characterization, signal quality analysis, embedded systems, and data integrity practices. - Excellent analytical problem-solving and written/verbal communication skills. - Collaborative mindset with experience working across hardware, firmware, and analytics teams. Benefits At Ōura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Ōura has a ring of their own and we are continually looking to improve employee health. What we offer: - Competitive salary and equity packages - Health, dental, vision insurance, and mental health resources - An Ōura Ring of your own plus employee discounts for friends & family - 20 days of paid time off plus 13 paid holidays plus 8 days of flexible wellness time off - Paid sick leave and parental leave Ōura takes a market-based approach to pay, which may vary depending on your location. US locations are categorized into tiers based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. While most offers will be closer to the starting range, successful candidates' pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, internal peer equity, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future. Region 1: $216,000 - $255,000 We are not considering candidates residing in the following states: Alaska (AK), Delaware (DE), Iowa (IA), Mississippi (MS), Nebraska (NE), South Dakota (SD), West Virginia (WV), and Wisconsin (WI). Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Disclaimer: Beware of fake job offers! We’ve been alerted to scammers posing as ŌURA recruiters, especially for remote roles. Please note: - Our jobs are listed only on the ŌURA Careers page and trusted job boards. - We will never ask for personal information like ID or payment for equipment upfront. - Official offers are sent through Docusign after a verbal offer, not via text or email. Stay cautious and protect your personal details. To all recruitment agencies: Oura does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Oura employees, or any other organization's location. Oura is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Sr Technical Product Manager - QPU Platform
About Us We are building quantum computing systems that push the boundary of what is physically possible. Doing so requires a rare combination of scientific depth, engineering rigor, and operational maturity. Our Quantum Control Platform sits at the heart of this effort, translating physics breakthroughs into executable engineering across hardware, software, optics, embedded systems, and automation. As we scale, we are looking for a Senior Technical Product Manager to serve as the operational backbone between our quantum physics research team and our multi-disciplinary engineering organization. This is not a traditional software product role. You will operate at the intersection of complex hardware development and modern agile delivery, making them work together in a physics-constrained environment. The Role Requirements Translation & Traceability You will work directly with quantum physicists to extract scientific intent — goals such as enabling a logical non-Clifford gate, achieving specific QPU-level performance milestones, or meeting target fidelity thresholds — and translate them into structured, executable engineering requirements. You will: - Build full traceable requirement hierarchies from top-level physics goals down to subsystem specifications - Cover domains including control electronics, embedded systems, optics, calibration workflows, and automation - Define clear acceptance criteria and validation plans at every level - Ensure no critical requirement lives informally in someone’s head - Your work will create clarity where complexity currently dominates. Documentation Discipline & Governance You will own and elevate the requirements process, not just participate in it. This includes: - Defining standardized requirement templates - Establishing definition-of-ready and definition-of-done criteria - Implementing milestone readiness frameworks - Institutionalizing documentation governance within Jira and Confluence - Ensuring proper decomposition, traceability, ownership, and auditability You will introduce structure without bureaucracy — building systems that accelerate execution rather than slow it down. Agile Delivery Partnership Engineering owns delivery. You will be their strongest product partner. You will: - Structure requirements so they are consumable by agile hardware and software teams - Decompose physics goals into Jira epics and stories while preserving validation rigor - Participate fluently in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives - Operate effectively in hybrid delivery environments where hardware constraints meet agile cadence You understand where agile breaks in hardware environments — and how to adapt it without becoming dogmatic or reverting to rigid sequential processes. Stakeholder Alignment & Process Maturity You will align scientists, hardware engineers, and software engineers around shared execution frameworks. This role requires: - Translating between research language and engineering execution models in real time - Surfacing unstated assumptions in scientific requirements - Challenging habits constructively - Raising the overall maturity of technical product management across the organization You lead through credibility and demonstrated value — not mandate. What We’re Looking For - 8–15+ years of experience in technical product management within deep-tech, hardware-centric, multi-disciplinary environments - Background in industries where precision and traceability are non-negotiable, such as: - Photonics and optical systems (e.g., Coherent, Lumentum, II-VI) - Lidar and sensing (e.g., Luminar, Ouster) - Defense and aerospace with photonics or directed energy programs - Scientific instrumentation (e.g., Thorlabs, Newport) - Semiconductor capital equipment (e.g., ASML, Applied Materials) - Fusion energy, advanced aerospace, or modern defense companies (e.g., SpaceX, Anduril, Joby) You have: - Personally built requirements governance frameworks, not just operated within them - Demonstrated end-to-end requirement traceability from high-level goals to subsystem specifications - Defined acceptance criteria and validation plans across complex systems - Deep fluency in Jira and Confluence - Experience with dedicated requirements management tools such as Jama or Aha - Strong technical grounding in physics, electrical engineering, optics, or related fields - The ability to engage meaningfully with PhD-level scientists and systems engineers You are: - A mature, credible operator who earns trust quickly - Comfortable introducing process discipline in high-intellect environments - Comfortable working in ambiguity while building structure - On-site in Boston and thrive in fast, whiteboard-heavy collaboration Nice to Have - Direct experience with quantum computing hardware or quantum software stacks - Familiarity with neutral atom systems - Experience with optical system integration, laser control, or free-space beam control - Familiarity with calibration workflows, qubit characterization, or QPU benchmarking - Experience building or scaling a technical product management function What Success Looks Like in Year One - A fully traceable requirement hierarchy from physics goals to subsystem specifications - Engineering teams executing against documented requirements with clear acceptance criteria - Governance frameworks embedded in Jira and Confluence and operating sustainably - Measurable improvement in organizational requirements maturity - Scientists and engineers describing the requirements process as a source of clarity, not overhead If you thrive at the intersection of frontier science and disciplined engineering execution — and want to help build quantum systems that redefine what computation can do — we would love to talk. As QuEra scales from individual machine development to a cohesive platform, this role will ensure that requirements are clearly specified, validation protocols are established, and system builds proceed predictably. By bringing structure, visibility, and technical coherence to our process, this person will enable teams to deliver high-performance machines efficiently, collaboratively, and with minimal rework. Salary: $170,000-250,000QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. LI-NB1
Senior Quantum Physicist
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Location: This role is based at our Oxford, UK office with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 5% Job ID: 1777 The Role: We are pioneering advancements in quantum computing by utilizing trapped ion technology and our proprietary laser-free quantum control methods. Our research and development efforts build on our fully integrated quantum processors that can be fabricated within standard silicon foundries. This unique approach allows us to leverage the highest-performing qubit technology while ensuring scalability and manufacturability using existing semiconductor fabrication technology. We approach quantum computing with a focus on minimizing errors, striving to achieve ultra-low gate errors at scale. Our immediate objective is to develop functional quantum computers within the NISQ regime, aiming to construct fault-tolerant machines that require minimal QEC overhead. Our recent breakthroughs include achieving 99.97% fidelity in two-qubit gates and 99.9992% fidelity in single-qubit operations without error correction, setting new industry standards for performance. We are looking for Quantum Physicist to join our UK Science team at IonQ. Our Quantum Scientists work at the forefront of our research efforts to develop the next generation of quantum computers. They are responsible for validating and optimising the performance of our computers, playing a critical role in ensuring we are able to meet our research and development goals and timelines. Our Scientists’ work spans a broad range of areas from designing, coding, debugging and executing experiments, to developing and validating novel control schemes. They are responsible for documenting and sharing their findings with the aim of pushing the boundaries of system performance. Responsibilities: As a Senior Quantum Scientist, you will typically be responsible for a combination of these different responsibilities: - Prototyping and characterising coherent control and cooling schemes for trapped-ion qubits using laser and microwave fields. - Calibrating and benchmarking quantum systems, focusing on achieving the highest fidelities for quantum circuit primitives (e.g. ion transport or gate operations) and full circuits. - Validating emerging trap technologies, including integrated electronics and photonics for large-scale architectures. - Analysing experimental data, debug complex hardware/software interactions, and ensure reliability of qubit operations. Requirements: To be successful in this role, you will need a PhD in physics or a related discipline, with a strong foundation in atomic or qubit-related physics. Prior postdoctoral or industry experience is valuable, but we are open to applicants moving directly from a PhD. We’re looking for someone with a solid background in quantum control, and hands-on experience in calibration, benchmarking, or coherent control of qubits, would be desirable. We’re looking for motivated scientists who can contribute to the progress of this fast moving, highly technical team and help the organisation meet our research goals. You’d be a great fit with: - Proven expertise in experimental AMO physics or quantum computing. Experience with trapped ions is beneficial though not essential. - Prior experience in one or more of the following: spectroscopy or coherent control of multi-level systems, characterisation of control hardware, gate fidelity benchmarking or running quantum circuits on hardware. - Strong proficiency in programming and data analysis, experience of Python or Rust is desirable. - Strong collaborative skills, with the ability to work independently and as part of a fast-moving team. - A track record of scientific communication through publications, talks and conferences would be advantageous. Benefits: Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing. We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more. Join us and be part of the future of quantum computing. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Senior QPU Design Engineer
About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. The Role: We are looking for a Senior QPU Design Engineer to join our Processor Design team at Oxford Ionics, now part of IonQ. You will be responsible for integrating all the features required to operate our quantum computers into complex chips, contributing to the team's mission of advancing the design of high performance quantum processing units. You will work closely with scientists and fabrication engineers to bring new designs for ion trapping chips into production, and you will play an important part in shaping the hardware behind our work building the world's most advanced quantum systems. Responsibilities : In this position you will turn operational requirements into chip layout, supporting the delivery of devices that enable new technologies. You will have the opportunity to expand the range of features our chips support, contributing directly to the goal of building utility scale quantum computers. - Guiding chips through the design process, from requirements to layout and tape out - Laying out complex multi layer chips, including metal track routing and interfaces with photonics and CMOS - Collaborating with scientists to discuss their requirements and settle on specifications - Coordinating with other teams to ensure feasibility and compatibility - Taking charge of projects independently and owning delivery of the final tape out Requirements: You will need experience translating design requirements into features, alongside hands on experience in chip layout. We are looking for someone who can work across teams to discuss the many aspects of chip design, understand how different parts of a chip influence and constrain one another, take on layout work themselves, and contribute effectively within a fast moving and highly technical team. You will need to drive the design process, solve problems as they arise, and take responsibility for delivery. *]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]" data-turn-id="request-WEB:8797ed5c-8be3-4529-a392-40d56fb48ff7-0" data-turn-id-container="request-WEB:8797ed5c-8be3-4529-a392-40d56fb48ff7-0" data-testid="conversation-turn-2" data-turn="assistant"> We’re looking for someone who can guide chips through the full design process, from requirements through to layout and tape-out. You will have experience laying out complex, multi-layer chips, including metal-track routing and interfaces with photonics and CMOS. You’ll collaborate with scientists to understand their requirements and agree specifications, while coordinating with other teams to ensure feasibility and compatibility. You’ll also be comfortable taking charge of projects independently and owning the delivery of the final tape-out. You'd be a great fit with: - Experience in scripted generation of layout, using GDSFactory in Python or similar - Experience using Cadence for IC layout - Experience in ion trap design, photonics design or IC packaging US Salary Banding: $124,000 - $186,000 If this role has a commission structure, the compensation range below just reflects the base compensation range. Wage Transparency: £75,200 - £112,800 GBP Compensation will vary based on individual factors such as education, qualifications, and experience of the final candidate(s), specific office location, and calibration against relevant market data and internal team equity. Posted base salary figures are subject to change as new market data becomes available. Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401(k), unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment. At IonQ, we believe in fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all while striving to identify and eliminate barriers. We empower employees to thrive by fostering a culture of autonomy, productivity, and respect. We are dedicated to creating an environment where individuals can feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued. We are committed to equity and justice. We welcome different voices and viewpoints and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. US Technical Jobs. The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. US Non-Technical Jobs. Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. If you are interested in being a part of our team and mission, we encourage you to apply!
Principal Technical Product Manager, Catalysis
About SandboxAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. The Opportunity SandboxAQ’s AI Simulation (AISim) division develops and applies Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that are grounded in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology to simulate molecular behavior with scientific precision and accelerate discovery in the physical world across biopharma, chemicals, advanced materials, healthcare, and so much more. Within AISim, ChemSim is SandboxAQ's AI-driven materials discovery platform. We are seeking an exceptional Product Manager to own the Catalysis vertical. This is a dual-mandate role. In the near term, you will be the product owner for catalysis within SandboxAQ's $500M CHIPS Act R&D award from the U.S. Department of Commerce, translating contractual objectives into product requirements and external fulfilment, whilst partnering with Program Managers to ensure successful milestone delivery. In parallel, you will build the commercial foundation that turns catalysis from a government-funded R&D workstream into a product-led business generating durable, recurring revenue from the broader materials and process-chemistry market. Catalysis is one of the largest and most consequential application areas in applied chemistry. It underpins refining and downstream oil and gas, commodity and petrochemical production, emissions control, and the energy transition (hydrogen electrolysis, carbon utilization, e-fuels and chemical recycling etc) alongside semiconductor process chemistry and fine chemical synthesis. Across nearly all of these markets the bottleneck is the same: catalyst discovery and optimization remain slow, experimental and expensive, and the simulation tools available today answer narrower questions than the ones that actually decide a process. This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to shape a category-defining AI platform for materials science at the intersection of national security, scientific discovery, and commercial scale. Key Responsibilities - Own the end-to-end Catalysis product strategy, vision and roadmap, spanning CHIPS Act contractual deliverables, vertical scientific depth, and commercial expansion into new markets. - Build a deep understanding of customer needs by working closely with Application Scientists and the Business Development team. Synthesize field insights, application benchmarking data, and market feedback into a clear picture of customer personas, and performance drivers, and translate these into prioritized product requirements and specifications. - Translate the program's catalysis objectives into clear product requirements, a vertical roadmap, and the evidence packages required for Fulfillment Notices to the U.S. Department of Commerce. - Define the dataset and model requirements for the vertical, chemical coverage, fidelity, and the benchmarking that determines where simulation investment is directed in partnership with our scientific and ML teams. - Drive the roadmap from property and energetics prediction toward reaction-level modelling, so that predictions can be validated against a customer's own process rather than assessed in isolation. - Quantify the value our catalyst products and services create for customers, such as gains in yield, selectivity, catalyst life, energy efficiency, and emissions. Equip Go-to-Market, Application Science, and Business Development teams with compelling value propositions, value models, and commercialization strategies that help them turn that technical performance into revenue, market share, and long-term customer partnerships. - Contribute to the catalysis commercial strategy with commercial leadership: customer segmentation, scope of offer, packaging, and pricing model across semiconductor, refining and petrochemical, emissions control and energy-transition customers. - Build, manage, and own strategic partner relationships at the product level: Work with fabs and equipment OEMs, precursor and specialty materials suppliers, refiners and chemical producers, catalyst manufacturers, national laboratories and validation partners, translating partner requirements into product features. - Define and track strategic product and commercial KPIs: Manage the metrics that matter most including, Model accuracy requirements, workflow adoption, customer segment expansion, and recurring revenue growth , and drive course corrections against OKRs. - Develop and defend build-vs-buy and build-vs-partner recommendations for domain-specific scientific engines, datasets and validation tooling. - Serve as the primary product voice for catalysis to program stakeholders, semiconductor ecosystem partners, and prospective commercial customers. - Define which parts of the roadmap are shared capability across end markets and which are market-specific, so that expansion compounds the product rather than fragmenting it. Essential Skills & Experience - 5+ years in product management, including ownership of a technically deep product sold to external customers. Must be able to operate in a product capacity within business models that are software and service oriented - Strong domain grounding in materials science, catalysis, chemistry, or chemical engineering. Enough knowledge to sufficiently and credibly engage computational scientists, experimental validation partners, and domain SMEs. - Track record shipping AI/ML-driven scientific or engineering software to external, paying or contracted users; and shipping products where the ICP was not clearly understood or demand generation and funnel was not already in place. - Experience contributing to scope of offer, packaging and pricing decisions for technical software, or clear evidence of the commercial instinct to do so. - Ability to engage both computational scientists and industrial, refining, chemical or equipment OEM partners, and to turn partner requirements into product requirements. - Ability to reason commercially across multiple end markets at once, sizing opportunities, comparing them on evidence, and sequencing entry rather than pursuing all of them simultaneously. - Comfort navigating deep ambiguity: translating unclear scientific and customer problems into structured roadmaps, success criteria, and measurable outcomes. - Has an ownership mindset, and a rigorous operational execution track record. - Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science or equivalent practical experience. Highly Desired Skills & Experience - Experience in one or more major catalysis end markets, refining and downstream, petrochemicals and commodity chemicals, emissions control, or energy-transition catalysis such as electrolysis, carbon utilization, e-fuels or chemical recycling. - Familiarity with computational chemistry workflows such as density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics, or microkinetic modelling, and the judgement to evaluate technical feasibility and roadmap trade-offs. - Semiconductor or electronic materials process chemistry experience (e.g. deposition, etch, wafer cleaning, gas abatement etc). - Familiarity with homogeneous or solution-phase catalysis alongside heterogeneous surface chemistry, and a view on where each approach applies. - Understanding of machine-learned interatomic potentials, spin polarization in transition-metal systems, and the evaluation of ML models against experimental or first-principles reference data. - Track record building product-led growth motions for technical or scientific software, including self-serve adoption and land-and-expand commercial models. - Prior product or business development engagement with catalyst manufacturers, chemical producers, refiners, or semiconductor ecosystem partners such as fabs, equipment OEMs and precursor suppliers. - Experience with multi-tenant SaaS, API governance, and enterprise security and compliance requirements. - An advanced degree in Computational Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Catalysis, Materials Science, or a related field. Why Join Us? We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. - Career Defining Work : Your work will directly accelerate the discovery of better drugs and better materials, advance human health, and enable safer and more sustainable technologies by helping customers put AI Simulation capabilities into real world use. - Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. - Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. - Work-Life Balance: Fully remote, Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. - Learning and Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. SandboxAQ Welcomes All We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity : All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations : We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
Senior Application Scientist, Process Chemical Dis...
About SandboxAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. The Opportunity Introduction to the team: The PFAS team sits within SandboxAQ's Chemical Simulation (ChemSim) group. Our mission is to develop PFAS-lean or PFAS-free substitutes and formulations for semiconductor process and fab materials that meet both performance specifications and environmental and safety requirements in complex semiconductor manufacturing environments. We combine generative ML, physics-based simulation (e.g. DFT and molecular dynamics), Large Quantitative Models for property prediction, and multi-scale modeling with a partner-driven experimental validation loop — working alongside industrial co-development partners to move candidate molecules from prediction to qualified use. Introduction to the role: The PFAS team is looking for a Senior Materials Research Scientist to serve as the scientific bridge between our generative chemistry discovery workflow and the external partners who validate our candidate molecules. This role is central to our efforts to ensure that the compounds our AI-driven workflow proposes are directionally correct, appropriate for the target semiconductor use case, and grounded in real manufacturing constraints. This person will: (1) support the partner-facing validation loop — working with our co-development partners as a day-to-day scientific contact on problem definition, target specifications, constraints, and qualification criteria; (2) run our generative chemistry workflow, assess the predicted compounds, and rank them by fitness for the use case to deliver decision-ready shortlists for partner validation; (3) translate experimental feedback from partners into concrete technical improvement points that the rest of the team members can act on; and (4) bring domain judgment to bear on the whole pipeline, assessing whether workflow outputs are qualitatively and directionally accurate and validating lead molecules against process reality. See how SandboxAQ is helping build America's semiconductor supply chain from the materials up Key Responsibilities - Support the partner validation loop . Work with external co-development partners (e.g. chemical and process-materials suppliers, semiconductor equipment makers, and control/sensor companies) as a day-to-day scientific contact, helping turn partner problems into well-posed target specifications, constraints, and qualification criteria. - Run the discovery workflow and rank candidates . Operate SandboxAQ's generative chemistry discovery workflow for assigned PFAS-substitution use cases; assess the predicted compounds for chemical plausibility and use-case fit, and rank them to produce decision-ready shortlists that partners can take into experimental validation. - Bring domain judgment to the pipeline. Assess whether generative and simulation outputs are directionally and qualitatively correct for the target semiconductor application, and check lead molecules against the process, performance, and EHS constraints. - Close the experimental feedback loop. Translate partner validation results and experimental data into specific, actionable technical improvement points for the rest of the team, and follow their incorporation through successive design cycles. - Align targets across internal teams. Partner closely with internal dataset, computational chemistry, machine-learning, and generative-modeling teams to keep property targets, screening oracles, and reward objectives aligned with partner-defined qualification criteria. Essential Skills & Experience - PhD in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field. - 3+ years of post-PhD experience (or equivalent) in industrial or applied R&D developing, formulating, or qualifying high-purity performance materials and formulations to replace an incumbent in an existing process without losing the properties that process depends on. - Familiarity with the performance and EHS specifications that govern qualification of process materials. - Experience bridging experiment and computation on application-driven projects with external partners — turning experimental results into modeling requirements, and model outputs into candidates worth testing. - Proficiency in Python — sufficient to run and configure computational discovery workflows and interpret their outputs — and comfort collaborating with generative-ML and physics-based simulation teams. - Familiarity with generative molecular design, high-throughput virtual screening, or ML property prediction for molecules and materials. Highly Desired Skills & Experience - Experience defining qualification protocols or reliability criteria jointly with fabs, OEMs, or chemical supplier - Direct, hands-on experience with PFAS phase-out or fluorine-free reformulation in a fab or specialty-chemicals setting. - Working knowledge of semiconductor unit processes (e.g. lithography, etch, CMP, cleaning, thermal management). - Track record of publications or patents in semiconductor materials, fluorochemistry, or PFAS alternatives. - Experience operating within a CHIPS Act or other federally funded R&D program. Why Join Us? We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth. - Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus equity and performance-based incentives. - Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; generous parental leave. - Work-Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous PTO, and a culture that respects focus time and recovery. - Career Development: Direct exposure to CHIPS Act-funded programs, senior scientific and executive leadership, mentorship, and dedicated learning budgets to support continued growth. SandboxAQ Welcomes All We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity : All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations : We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
Staff Brand Designer, Graphic & Web
About SandboxAQ SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact. The Opportunity The SandboxAQ Design team is one unified organization spanning brand, creative, and product, with designers embedded day-to-day in the Business Units they support. We are a lean, hands-on team, every designer here owns their work day to day, from strategy through execution. This role is our first dedicated hire for brand and visual design. We are looking for a Staff Brand Designer to join our central Design team, reporting to the VP of Design. You will craft the vision of how SandboxAQ shows up, and execute it across mediums for a company whose work spans life sciences, chemistry, financial services, navigation, AI operations and cybersecurity. What makes this both hard and exciting: there is no brand practice to inherit and no team to delegate to; the vision gets built through the work. In this role, you will: - Set the creative direction for the SandboxAQ brand, and prove it in the work. - Shape a cohesive parent brand and supporting assets across six domains. Life sciences, chemistry, financial services, navigation, AI operations and cybersecurity each deserve a visual expression of their own, but must still stand together as SandboxAQ. - Own sandboxaq.com : design, build, ship, and maintain it, hands-on in the CMS. - Create scalable solutions: Templates, kits, systems, and AI-assisted workflows that enable our team to scale beyond its size. Key Responsibilities - Own and evolve the SandboxAQ brand. Set the creative vision and build the design system — visual identity, components, guidelines, and the brand architecture for our sub-brands. You will be the most senior voice on brand at the company. We expect you to have a point of view, to be able to defend it, and to change our minds. - Own the corporate web presence end to end. Design, build, and maintain sandboxaq.com and related properties (currently Webflow). You are the point of contact for corporate web, working directly in the CMS rather than handing specs to someone else. - Produce high-craft work yourself. Conference and event graphics, brochures, one-pagers, infographics, executive and go-to-market materials. You’ll handle a steady stream of hands-on design work for our team. It is also the fastest route to moving the brand somewhere new, so we want someone who treats each piece as a chance to push the system rather than a ticket to close. - Build scalable design processes and resources. Deck templates, brand kits, asset libraries, and repeatable processes that let people across the company self-serve high-quality work without routing through you. - Partner across the company, and direct outside help when needed. Work with product designers, creative media, marketing, and go-to-market as a design partner brought in early to shape the problem, not a service desk taking requests at the end. Brief external partners and hold the standard on overflow or specialist work. Essential Skills & Experience - ~8+ years crafting brand systems, graphic design, and web design. - Hands-on fluency with a modern CMS or visual web platform (Webflow, HTML/CSS), with the ability to take a site from design through build, launch, and ongoing maintenance yourself. - Proven experience building design systems or component libraries : brand kits, templates, or asset libraries you built that non-designers genuinely adopted. - Range with coherence : evidence of designing across visually distinct domains or audiences while holding a recognizable through-line, plus the ability to work with dense scientific and AI subject matter (LQMs, agentic systems, quantum-era security) and turn complex technical concepts into clear visual designs. - Comfort building from scratch and working independently. You have established a brand or web practice where none existed, you use AI tools actively in your workflow, and you can write/present to win support for your ideas. Highly Desired Skills & Experience - Motion, animation, or interactive web/UI experience. - Building interactive, web-native alternatives to static PDFs and decks. - Brand or web experience in science, deep tech, healthcare, or other technically demanding fields. - Baseline SEO and accessibility literacy. - Print and production experience. Why Join Us? We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth. - Compensation: Competitive base salary, performance-based incentives or bonuses (where applicable), and equity participation. - Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions, retirement savings with company matching, paid parental leave, and inclusive family-building benefits. - Work-Life Balance: Fully remote, Flexible paid time off, company-wide seasonal breaks, and support for flexible work arrangements that enable sustainable performance. - Career Development: Opportunities for continuous learning and growth through on-the-job development, cross-functional collaboration, and access to internal learning and development programs. SandboxAQ Welcomes All We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity : All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations : We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews
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