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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
Staff Software Engineer – Billing & Metering
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. We don’t just build the world’s best quantum computers—we sell them! We make our systems available via the cloud, alongside quantum services to do the heavy lifting for our customers. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to lead our billing and payments platform integration efforts, which makes it possible for us to meter and sell our products to customers. You’ll lead key components of the platform in collaboration with our product team and other engineers, to build the best quantum developer experience for our customers and partners. Responsibilities : - Design and implement end-to-end usage-based billing capabilities, utilizing pricing primitives, payment flows, usage tracking, contract and entitlement models, and revenue data pipelines. Know where to extend third-party billing platform integrations and where to build our own primitives around them. - Collaborate with Product and Customer Success teams to translate ambiguous business needs into scalable technical solutions for our next-generation billing system, including expansion into new international markets and supporting Enterprise resellers. - Own the interfaces with third-party billing platforms like Metronome and Stripe as well as our internal dataset for generating invoices and revenue reports. - Perform required manual work like Enterprise contract amendments, pricing config changes, and billing support escalations. A lot of it can be automated by building internal tooling, but some of it still requires human-in-the-loop. - Partner with Finance, Legal, and other stakeholders on compliance-related technical decisions. You’d be a good fit with: - Deep understanding of how to build for correctness and have an instinct for where idempotency, reconciliation, retry logic, and audit trails matter in a billing system - Past experience with building usage-based billing, subscription, and invoice services - Proven experience designing and leading large-scale, cross-team technical projects from inception to completion - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated through a portfolio of technical design documents, architectural diagrams, or public presentations - A strong sense of ownership and the ability to navigate ambiguity to drive complex projects forward with a high degree of autonomy - Familiarity with using AI in day-to-day coding - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping backend or platform systems in production and 3+ years leading large-scale, complex projects as a tech lead You’d be a great fit with: - Experience with the operational side of B2B billing or B2C billing - Familiarity with global payment systems, including international tax regulations (VAT, GST), currency conversion, and local payment methods - Worked on revenue reconciliation, financial reporting pipelines, or systems that had to survive an audit - Familiarity with usage-based billing platforms like Metronome - Expertise in programming backends in Go Location: This role will work onsite or hybrid at our office located in Bothell, WA. Travel: Up to 10% Job ID: 1343 The approximate base salary range for this position is $174,520 - $228,492 . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity. 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 Site Reliability 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 at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1874 The Role: The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites. The Site Reliability Engineering discipline keeps the platform stable and reliable, with a strong focus on service continuity and customer experience. It owns production reliability, service-level objectives, observability architecture, backup and disaster recovery, incident response, and resilience, and co-owns cloud security posture and runtime vulnerability management with DevSecOps. As Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you set the technical direction for reliability across regions and services. You own the reliability strategy, define the standards and mechanisms that guide production operations, and raise the bar through design leadership, operational discipline, and mentorship. You remain deeply hands-on by designing and operating observability platforms, defining and governing SLO programs, leading high-severity incident response, building resilience and disaster-recovery automation, improving reliability of stateful and streaming platforms, and creating AI Ops workflows for triage, remediation, and self-healing. The work is driven by observability and automation, with a focus on detecting and fixing issues before customers are affected and using every incident to improve the system. - Production reliability, SLOs, and error budgets — the reliability of production services end to end, including standards, governance, and escalation for Tier-1 and Tier-2 services. - Observability architecture and standards — metrics, logs, distributed tracing, and profiles instrumented across production systems, with consistent platform-wide standards. - Chaos engineering and resilience — failure-injection experiments and validation of recovery mechanisms in pre-production and production environments. - Backup and disaster recovery — backup validation, disaster-recovery architecture, failover testing, and recovery verification against defined RTO and RPO objectives. - Cloud security posture — cloud security posture management, runtime vulnerability detection, and configuration-compliance monitoring, co-owned with DevSecOps. - Data and streaming platform reliability — reliability engineering for Postgres, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, OpenSearch, and other critical stateful services. - Capacity, efficiency, and AI Ops — resource rightsizing, predictive alerting, autonomous triage, remediation automation, and self-healing workflows. - Incident response and command — severity classification, incident command, executive communication, and blameless post-incident review for the highest-severity events. - On-call and escalation — rotation design, operational readiness, escalation policy, and clean follow-the-sun handoffs across regions. Responsibilities : - Production reliability — own service-level objectives, error budgets, and production reliability outcomes end to end, and represent reliability in architecture and scaling decisions. - Engineer observability — design and operate the observability stack so production services are fully instrumented and define the standards platform and application teams follow. - Govern SLOs and error budgets — define and manage service-level objectives, run regular reviews with service owners, and drive corrective action when services consume error budgets unsafely. - Drive resilience — design and execute chaos experiments and validate that failure modes are covered by tested safeguards. - Lead incident response — define the incident process and serve as incident commander for the highest-severity incidents, including security incidents within the coverage window. - Run on-call and escalation — establish and manage rotations and escalation paths that provide continuous coverage with clean follow-the-sun handoffs. - Disaster recovery — own disaster-recovery testing and failover validation against defined recovery objectives and turn exercise findings into architectural and operational improvements. - Cloud security posture — co-own cloud security posture management, runtime vulnerability detection, and configuration-compliance monitoring with DevSecOps. - Data, streaming, and AI Ops — own reliability of stateful and streaming services, capacity planning and rightsizing, and autonomous agents for triage, predictive alerting, remediation, and self-healing. - Scale the team and broaden impact — mentor engineers at different seniority levels, set standards adopted across teams, and align Architecture, DevSecOps, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind a shared reliability roadmap. Requirements: - 7+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on reliability work. - Hands-on, recent experience operating large-scale, fault-tolerant production systems on AWS or GCP. - Observability ownership — has instrumented production systems and governed service-level objectives and error budgets, not only installed dashboards. - Resilience practice — has designed and executed failure experiments or disaster-recovery exercises with real failover validation. - Incident command — has personally commanded serious SEV1/SEV2 incidents and driven root cause through to a systemic fix. - Demonstrated ownership of reliability outcomes with measurable results, such as availability, mean time to recovery, and error-budget adherence. - Evidence of multi-team technical leadership through standards, review, coaching, and mechanisms adopted beyond one service or team. Preferred Qualifications: - Proven production experience with cloud security posture management, runtime vulnerability detection, and workload protection across cloud and distributed environments. - Strong experience prioritizing risk using identity, workload, and exposure-path context to focus remediation on issues that materially increase attack likelihood and operational impact. - Experience with autonomous remediation and self-healing workflows powered by AIOps, including Amazon Bedrock Agent Core or equivalent agentic automation frameworks. - Hands-on experience in capacity management, resource rightsizing, efficiency engineering, and practical cost optimization based on FinOps principles. - Experience with load-balancing design and operations, including health-based failover, global traffic management, and performance optimization for highly available services. - Experience with AI traffic management via an LLM gateway, including request routing, policy enforcement, rate limiting, model fallback, latency optimization, cost controls, and observability for multi-model or multi-provider environments. - Ability to connect networking, security, and reliability considerations into cohesive platform design decisions that improve resilience, performance, and operability. 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: $152,000 - $228,000 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 Service Reliability and Operational Intellig...
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 Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1875 The Role: The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites. The Service Reliability and Operational Intelligence discipline ensures the platform remains stable and resilient, with focus on service continuity and seamless customer experience. It owns production reliability and resilience, observability architecture, service-level objectives, incident response, and implementation of AIOps workflows for triage, remediation, and self-healing. As a Staff Service Reliability and Operational Intelligence Engineer, you define the technical direction for reliability across regions and services. You own the reliability strategy, establish the standards and mechanisms that guide production operations, and elevate excellence through design leadership, operational discipline, and mentorship. You stay deeply hands-on by designing and operating observability platforms, defining and governing SLO programs, leading high-severity incident response, and building resilience and disaster-recovery automation. The work is driven by observability and automation, with a focus on detecting and fixing issues before customers are affected and using every incident to improve the system. Responsibilities : - Shape the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for operational excellence and production readiness across development, pre-production, and production environments. - Define and govern the New Service Introduction framework, including mandatory architecture, security, resilience, capacity, observability, supportability, and release-readiness reviews before services enter production. - Establish organization-wide service ownership standards covering service catalog records, accountable owners, dependency maps, runbooks, support models, escalation paths, recovery objectives, and on-call readiness. - Lead the architecture and evolution of the shared observability platform, establishing consistent standards for logs, metrics, distributed traces, and profiles across production systems. - Define standards for dashboards, alert policies, synthetic monitoring, telemetry quality, retention, sampling, cardinality, and cost controls. - Own the reliability governance model for production services, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and escalation mechanisms. - Connect service-health signals to customer and business impact, enabling early anomaly detection, service-degradation prevention, and rapid isolation of end-user-impacting events. - Advance incident-management maturity through consistent severity classification, incident command, stakeholder and executive communications, automated evidence collection, and coordinated response to high-severity incidents. - Establish blameless post-incident review practices, ensure remediation actions are tracked to completion, and drive systemic fixes for recurring failure modes. - Lead operational capacity and efficiency management, including demand forecasting, cloud and Kubernetes capacity, performance testing, scaling thresholds, headroom policies, resource rightsizing, and capacity-risk reviews. - Design and govern AI Ops capabilities for event correlation, alert-noise reduction, predictive detection, probable root-cause analysis, autonomous triage, assisted remediation, and controlled self-healing. - Deliver secure AI-agent workflows across observability platforms, service catalog, Jira, Confluence, source control, and CI/CD. - Improve on-call effectiveness through sustainable rotation design, operational-readiness standards, escalation policies, diagnostic automation, alert-quality management, and reliable follow-the-sun handoffs. - Provide hands-on technical leadership during major incidents, complex reliability investigations, architectural reviews, resilience exercises, and critical service launches. - Use operational data, incident trends, service-level performance, capacity signals, change outcomes, and automation effectiveness to prioritize continuous improvement. Requirements: - 8+ years of production engineering, site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or cloud operations experience, including recent hands-on reliability work. - Recent experience designing and operating large-scale, fault-tolerant production systems on AWS or GCP. - Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and production failure modes. - Demonstrated ownership of observability architecture, including instrumentation of production systems and governance of metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. - Proven experience establishing reliability and operational-readiness standards for business-critical services. - Hands-on experience designing and executing failure experiments, disaster-recovery exercises, and validated service failovers. - Experience personally commanding SEV1 or SEV2 incidents, coordinating technical and executive communications, and driving root causes through to systemic remediation. - Demonstrated ownership of measurable reliability outcomes such as availability, latency, MTTR, change-failure rate, alert quality, and error-budget adherence. - Experience with capacity forecasting, performance testing, scaling strategies, and cloud and Kubernetes resource management. - Strong software engineering and automation skills using languages such as Python or Go, infrastructure as code, and modern delivery toolchains. - Evidence of multi-team technical leadership through architecture reviews, standards, coaching, and mechanisms adopted beyond a single service or team. - Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and deliver complex initiatives without relying on direct management authority. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience prioritizing operational risk using identity, workload, dependency, and exposure-path context to focus remediation on issues with material customer or business impact. - Experience designing AI Ops capabilities for anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive alerting, root-cause analysis, and operational noise reduction. - Hands-on experience with autonomous remediation and self-healing workflows using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore or comparable agentic automation frameworks. - Experience integrating governed AI agents with operational platforms such as Jira, Confluence, source control, CI/CD, service catalog, and observability systems. - Practical experience with capacity optimization, resource rightsizing, efficiency engineering, telemetry cost management, and FinOps principles. - Experience designing and operating load-balancing solutions, health-based failover, global traffic management, and performance optimization for highly available services. - Ability to integrate networking, security, resilience, performance, and operability requirements into cohesive platform architecture decisions. - Experience with progressive-delivery techniques such as canary deployments, blue-green deployments, automated rollback, and feature-flag governance. - Experience establishing sustainable global on-call models and follow-the-sun operational practices. 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: $152,000 - $228,000 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 QA Software 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 at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 15%, domestic or international. Job ID: 1913 The Role: We're hiring a QA Engineer to own quality for our SaaS-based Quantum Security Posture Management platform. This role is focused on rigorous, product-level testing — functional correctness, regression coverage, and automation — for a platform that models Layer 2/Layer 3 networks and evaluates security posture. You'll work closely with developers to catch defects early and build confidence in every release. Responsibilities : - Design, write, and execute detailed test cases and test plans for platform features: network discovery, topology mapping, policy/rule analysis, posture scoring, alerting, and reporting. - Perform functional, regression, integration, and API testing across releases and sprints. - Validate correctness of Layer 2/Layer 3 network modeling (VLANs, routing, ACLs, NAT, firewall rules) as represented and analyzed by the product. - Build and maintain automated test suites (UI and API level – Selinium, REST Assured, Pytest) to increase regression coverage and reduce manual testing effort. - Set up and maintain test environments/labs, including virtual network topologies (e.g., GNS3, EVE-NG, containerlab) and multi-vendor device configs (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet). - Log, triage, and track defects; work with engineering to reproduce, root-cause, and verify fixes. - Participate in sprint planning, story grooming, and release readiness reviews, providing a quality/risk perspective. - Contribute to test strategy improvements, including shift-left testing practices and CI/CD test integration. - Maintain clear, thorough test documentation (test cases, coverage matrices, defect reports). Requirements: - 10+ years of experience in software QA/testing, ideally for SaaS or enterprise infrastructure products. - Working knowledge of Layer 2/Layer 3 networking (VLANs, subnetting, routing protocols, ACLs, NAT, firewall logic). - Foundational security knowledge — firewall policies, segmentation, common vulnerabilities/misconfigurations. - Experience with manual and automated testing (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Postman/Newman) and defect tracking tools (Jira, etc.). - Comfortable testing REST APIs and validating JSON/data payloads. - Strong attention to detail and ability to write clear, reproducible bug reports. Preferred Qualifications: - Scripting experience (Python, Bash) for test automation. - Experience with virtual network labs (GNS3, EVE-NG) or cloud networking (AWS VPC, Azure VNet). - Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and test integration. - Certifications such as ISTQB, CCNA, or Security+. 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: $152,000 - $190,000 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 Product Marketing Manager, 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: This position can work hybrid from our office in Denver, CO or fully remote. Travel: Up to 5% domestic or international. Job ID: The Role: We are looking for a Staff Product Marketing Manager, Space Solutions to lead go-to-market strategy for IonQ's space portfolio within Quantum Platform. Reporting to the Head of Product Marketing, Quantum Platform, this role will shape how IonQ's Space Solutions portfolio is understood in-market — translating space systems, communications, and imaging capabilities into differentiated positioning, launch strategies, impactful revenue-driving narratives, and sales motions that accelerate market adoption, support pipeline growth, and strengthen IonQ's position in commercial, defense and intelligence, and allied government markets. This role operates at the intersection of product, engineering, sales, marketing, and leadership. You will help connect product strategy to market strategy, ensuring launches and messaging reflect a clear, credible, technically accurate, and customer-relevant narrative. You will own positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, launches, and cross-functional alignment across the full Space Solutions portfolio ensuring IonQ's portfolio is differentiated, commercially relevant, and positioned to drive adoption across sensing, communications, and quantum-enabled mission capabilities. You will serve as a strategic market partner to product and technical leadership, helping connect product development decisions to customer needs, competitive dynamics, buyer behavior, and market opportunity. This includes influencing launch priorities, roadmap communication, and product strategy through customer insight, competitive intelligence, and market feedback. The right person is independently driven, deeply collaborative, customer-voice driven, and comfortable operating with autonomy in highly technical, mission-driven, and evolving markets. Responsibilities : - Support, define, and evolve the narrative, positioning, and messaging for Space Solutions across customer segments and buyer personas — translating technical space capabilities into customer-ready language that resonates with U.S. government, allied government, defense, intelligence, civil, and commercial space audiences. - Support the go-to-market strategy and launch execution across space solutions tailoring positioning, messaging, and customer engagement to distinct buyers, use cases, competitive environments, and procurement paths. - Partner closely with product management, mission design, engineering, sales, and technical leadership to influence launch prioritization and roadmap communication based on customer insight, competitive dynamics, mission relevance, and market opportunity. - Develop and maintain customer-facing and internal content, including messaging frameworks, solution narratives, thought leadership, web copy, sales enablement assets, technical briefs, one-pagers, case studies, campaign content, and launch materials. - Own and continuously evolve Space Solutions AI-enabled go-to-market systems, including domain-specific agents, knowledge repositories, competitive intelligence, product information, proof points, ICPs, and approved messaging to power scalable content creation, sales enablement, and market intelligence. - Drive cross-functional alignment across product, engineering, sales, mission design, corporate marketing, communications, and enablement to ensure launches reinforce product authority, platform coherence, and market differentiation at every touchpoint. - Own competitive and market intelligence, tracking competitors, procurement trends, mission priorities, customer needs, market shifts, and emerging category dynamics while translating insights into actionable recommendations for GTM team members. - Serve as the voice of the customer within the organization, ensuring customer needs, mission requirements, buying behavior, market feedback, and competitive realities consistently influence GTM strategy, positioning, launch planning, and product decisions. - Partner with sales enablement to support battle cards, objection handling, training materials, customer decks, demo narratives, technical talk tracks, and strategic deal support for complex government, defense, intelligence, allied, and commercial opportunities. - Support the development of scalable product marketing processes, frameworks, and operational infrastructure as the Quantum Platform organization grows. Requirements: - 5–8+ years of experience in B2B or B2G product marketing, solutions marketing, technical marketing, strategy, or go-to-market roles within space, defense, aerospace, geospatial intelligence, satellite systems, Earth observation, national security, deep tech, or adjacent markets where buyers are sophisticated and sales cycles are complex. - Direct experience in the space industry is strongly preferred. You understand how space customers think, how missions are evaluated, how technical capabilities map to operational outcomes, and how government, defense, intelligence, allied, and commercial space buyers assess risk, value, and differentiation. - Proven ownership of GTM strategy and launch execution. You have built launch plans, aligned stakeholders, driven positioning, and taken technical products or solutions to market — not just supported execution. - Working knowledge of one or more relevant areas such as SAR, Earth observation, satellite systems, hosted payloads, mission solutions, space infrastructure, defense/intelligence missions, sovereign space capabilities, or geospatial data. - Exceptional writing and content development skills. You can translate highly technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives and create polished content across launches, thought leadership, web copy, customer-facing assets, sales enablement materials, and technical solution narratives for executive, mission, and technical audiences. - Confident communicator across internal and external audiences — including customers, partners, executives, product leaders, engineers, mission teams, and technical stakeholders. - Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders across product, engineering, sales, marketing, mission design, and leadership organizations. - Strong commercial instincts and strategic thinking. You can synthesize complex technical input into commercially effective positioning and understand how messaging, positioning, launches, and market insights connect to business outcomes. - Experience working in nascent, emerging, or rapidly evolving markets where category definitions, buyer understanding, and competitive dynamics are still developing. - Experience building, maintaining, or operationalizing AI-enabled workflows, knowledge systems, agents, or automation frameworks. Ability to structure product, customer, mission, and market information in ways that improve output quality, consistency, and business value. - Highly organized and self-directed, with the ability to manage multiple strategic and executional work streams simultaneously. 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: $128,445 - $183,450 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 DevSecOps 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. What to expect The Platform Engineering team builds, secures and operates scalable infrastructure supporting cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites. As our Staff DevSecOps Engineer, you will provide the technical leadership for our software factory, defining how software is built, secured and released across the organisation. You will own the roadmap, architecture and tooling that enable every engineering team to deliver software securely, consistently and at scale, while remaining hands-on with automation, infrastructure and platform engineering. Working closely with Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations and Product Development, you will drive an automation-first culture where secure software delivery, developer experience and operational excellence are embedded into every stage of the software lifecycle. - Define and evolve the software factory, including CI/CD platforms, release engineering, developer tooling, Infrastructure as Code, dependency management and software supply-chain security. - Deliver secure-by-default engineering practices through automated security controls, policy enforcement, vulnerability management, compliance automation and AI-driven workflows. - Mentor engineers, establish engineering standards and collaborate across technical teams to deliver scalable, secure and highly automated development platforms. What you'll be doing You will lead the design, implementation and operation of the organisation's DevSecOps platform, ensuring software moves securely and efficiently from commit to production. You will develop reusable CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code modules and self-service developer capabilities that improve productivity whilst maintaining the highest security standards. You will own release management, dependency and supply-chain security, security operations and hybrid infrastructure consistency across cloud and on-premises environments. You will also drive the adoption of agentic automation and AI-enabled workflows to reduce manual effort, improve operational efficiency and enhance software delivery. - Own the software-factory roadmap, CI/CD platform, release engineering, Infrastructure as Code, internal developer platform and software supply-chain security. - Embed security throughout the delivery pipeline through automated scanning, policy enforcement, vulnerability management, secrets management and continuous compliance. - Develop agentic automation for pipeline operations, dependency management, release processes and operational support, while providing technical leadership, mentoring and engineering governance. What you'll bring You are an experienced DevSecOps or Platform Engineering leader with more than eight years of production engineering experience and recent hands-on responsibility for building and operating enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms. You have designed production Infrastructure as Code, embedded security into delivery pipelines and delivered measurable improvements across software delivery, release management, dependency governance or vulnerability remediation. You are passionate about automation and continuously removing manual effort through tooling, scripting and intelligent workflows. - 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on responsibility for enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, Infrastructure as Code and production automation. - Proven experience embedding security into software delivery through automated scanning, policy enforcement, vulnerability management and measurable operational improvements. - Strong scripting and automation skills, with a demonstrated ability to simplify complex operational processes through reusable tooling and automation. You'll be a great fit with You have deep expertise in modern software supply-chain security, internal developer platforms and secure software delivery. You understand how to balance developer productivity with governance, compliance and operational resilience, while creating platforms that engineering teams enjoy using. You bring practical experience of AI-enabled software delivery, modern release engineering and cloud-native platform design, with a passion for building secure, scalable and highly automated engineering ecosystems. - Proven expertise in software supply-chain security, including artefact signing, Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), provenance and SLSA principles. - Experience designing internal developer platforms, self-service engineering capabilities and release management processes, including expedited production releases. - Hands-on experience with agentic automation, AI or LLM security, and intelligent workflow orchestration within modern DevSecOps environments. 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 DevOps 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 at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1861 The Role: We are looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our Quantum Platform Network Security Engineering Team. The Platform Engineering team builds, secures, and operates scalable infrastructure for cloud-managed SaaS products with on-premises components deployed at customer sites. The DevOps discipline owns the "software factory" — the end-to-end system that takes code from commit to production securely, reliably, and fast, with security embedded into every stage. As a Staff DevOps Engineer, you set the technical direction for the software factory. You own its roadmap, make the architecture and tooling decisions that shape how every product team ships, and raise the bar through standards, review, and mentorship. You remain deeply hands-on by writing pipeline code, building and testing infrastructure-as-code modules, configuring security scanning, managing dependencies, operating release infrastructure, and, where on-premises infrastructure is in scope, running physical and virtual systems. The work is automation-first with every repetitive task a candidate for a pipeline or an agentic workflow. - CI/CD pipeline platform — the shared build, test, scan, sign, and deploy platform, with reusable templates and golden-path standards. - Pipeline security and policy — scanning strategy, security gates, risk thresholds, and automated go/no-go decisioning. - Release engineering and governance — the release train (versioning, environment promotion), the release gate with risk assessment, and an expedited, still-gated hotfix pipeline for emergency production changes. - Dependency management and supply-chain security — dependency health, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) generation, artifact signing, and provenance. - Internal developer platform — self-service environment provisioning, onboarding, documentation, and the developer support model. - Infrastructure as Code — reusable, tested modules, policy-as-code enforcement, and environment consistency across cloud and hybrid deployments. - Security operations and compliance — vulnerability scanning, continuous compliance evidence, identity and access operations, and secrets lifecycle management. - On-premises and hybrid operations — operational consistency between cloud and on-premises systems, where applicable. - Agentic automation and AI security — agentic automation across the software factory, with guardrails and security controls for autonomous actions. Responsibilities : - Set the direction — own the software-factory roadmap and the architecture and tooling decisions behind it, and bring the organization along with you, so that every service builds, tests, scans, signs, and deploys through self-service, with no manual gates beyond code review and release approval. - Make security the fast path — embed scanning and policy enforcement into every pipeline stage so secure delivery is the default, not a bottleneck. - Run release management — operate the release train (versioning, environment promotion) and the release gate, and the expedited hotfix pipeline fast but fully gated. - Keep dependencies and the supply chain healthy — automate dependency updates, track freshness, generate SBOMs, and verify artifact provenance. - Build and improve the internal developer platform — deliver self-service capabilities that let product teams ship quickly and safely. - Engineer infrastructure as code — write and test production modules with the same rigor product teams apply to application code. - Operate security and compliance — run vulnerability scanning, drive findings to closure within security-based service-level targets and keep audit evidence continuously current. - Automate with agents — build and operate agentic workflows for pipeline triage, dependency orchestration, and routine support, and enforce guardrails for autonomous actions. - Scale the team and broaden impact — mentor engineers at different seniority levels, raise the bar through standards, review, and golden paths, and align Architecture, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Product Development behind the roadmap. Requirements: - 8+ years of production engineering experience with recent hands-on work. - Hands-on, recent experience building and operating CI/CD pipeline platforms at production scale. - Security embedded into pipelines as a practitioner — has personally configured scanning and driven a real vulnerability to closure within a deadline. - Infrastructure-as-Code authored and tested, with production modules to show, not only consumed. - Demonstrated ownership of release, dependency, or vulnerability-management outcomes with measurable results. - Scripting and automation fluency, with a clear bias toward removing manual toil. Preferred Qualifications: - Supply-chain security depth (signing, SBOMs, provenance, SLSA). - Internal developer platform or self-service design, measured by adoption. - Release-gate or release-train ownership, including expedited or emergency-change delivery under pressure. - Agentic delivery automation (AWS Agent Core or equivalent) and AI or LLM security practice. 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: $152,000 - $228,000 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!
Software Engineering Director, Cloud Services
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. IonQ is seeking a strategic and visionary Software Engineering Director to lead the development and operation of the core services provided by the IonQ Quantum Cloud platform (try it out yourself: https://cloud.ionq.com). This role is pivotal in delivering access to our advanced quantum computers and simulators via our APIs in the cloud and on-prem. The Director will drive the technical direction of the IonQ Quantum Cloud API platform, ensuring it aligns with IonQ's overall business objectives and market opportunities in the rapidly evolving quantum computing landscape. The ideal candidate will have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous initiatives, balancing multiple activities with a keen eye for prioritizing for the biggest impact. You’ll be able to balance technical expertise and savvy with strong business judgment to make great technology choices with lasting impact. You’ll strive for simplicity and demonstrate significant creativity and incisive judgment. You'll enjoy learning technical topics, working across multiple business streams, and be uniquely positioned to help us reach the next horizon in secure quantum computing. Responsibilities : - Develop and execute the technical roadmap for IonQ's quantum platform, aligning with business goals and market demands - Own API design and versioning strategy for IonQ Quantum Cloud, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-documented, and a joy to integrate with - Partner closely with developer tools leadership to ensure seamless integration between cloud services and client SDKs - Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives, collaborating with product, research, and engineering leadership to define long-term technology choices and platform architecture - Manage technical delivery of integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring alignment with IonQ's cloud strategy and business objectives - Develop and manage the cloud services portfolio budget, ensuring cost optimization and alignment with financial goals - Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the cloud platform, providing regular reports and insights to executive leadership - Provide technical leadership and guidance in building robust, scalable, and innovative software solutions that can be deployed in a variety of contexts – including on-prem and hybrid environments In your first three months, you will focus on assessing the current cloud platform strategy, identifying key areas for improvement, and delivering new capabilities to meet growing global demand. You’d be a good fit with... - 12+ years of progressive technical leadership experience, including significant experience in managing and developing large-scale cloud platforms - 7+ years experience designing and operating cloud APIs and services at scale - Demonstrated ability to develop and execute strategic plans, working cross-functionally to align technology initiatives with business objectives - Experience in building and leading high-performing distributed teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence across multiple timezones - Sufficient technical proficiency to engage thoughtfully with engineers about architecture and product design, offering valuable insights when necessary - Experiencing shipping and operating business-critical distributed systems - Experience managing teams using AI agents for engineering tasks - Prior experience as a software engineer and team lead - Strong written and verbal communication skills for different audiences (your staff, users, the company as a whole) You’d be a great fit with... - 18+ years of senior technical leadership experience, including experience at the director level or above (e.g., 30+ engineers organized in multiple layers) - 10+ years experience designing and scaling APIs, with a proven track record of shipping interfaces developers love to use - Experience owning a multi-tenant cloud API product end-to-end—from API design through deployment and operations—at scale - Strong product and design sense - Experience in driving organizational change and transformation in a rapidly evolving technology environment - Experience recruiting and managing teams distributed across multiple continents - Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction layers - Strong business acumen and experience in developing and managing the engineering platform for a significant business unit - Experience managing rigorous incident response processes, on-call rotations, and retrospectives - Personal experience writing software with AI agents - Prior experience with building/scaling platform-as-a-service offerings - Prior experience with quantum computing Location: This role will be based onsite at our office in Bothell, Washington or our Headquarters in College Park, MD. Travel: Up to 10% Job ID: 1332 The approximate base salary range for this position is $221,925 - $290,558 . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity. 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 Program 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. 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-by-side 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. The Role We are seeking a Technical Program Manager to help manage, plan, and deliver on exciting projects. You will oversee cross-functional teams, create and manage project schedules, budgets, risks/opportunities, and ensure alignment with technical and strategic goals. Ongoing efforts span from component level upgrades to component design and integration with NextGen into Capella’s current and next generation spacecraft design. This is an exciting opportunity to join a dedicated, collaborative, and supportive team to achieve novel on-orbit capabilities. This role will directly contribute to large scale and high impact efforts within the company. Responsibilities - Experience leading technology projects through full program lifecycle including planning, execution, project closure, stakeholder management and issue/dependency management - Experience developing and maintaining a comprehensive project portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technology projects, and tracking and maintaining schedules and status across multiple development projects - Ability to prioritize projects and programs based on strategic importance, resource availability and business impact - Experience managing complex budgets including labor forecasts, actuals, material, and subcontractors - Mentor and knowledge share with project resources ensuring accountability for project deliverables - Strong, clear and concise documentation and communication skills with broad range of technical/non-technical resources, internal/external audiences, and all levels of the organization - Ability to translate technical requirements into work delivery plans. - Strong Problem-solving and proven data driving-decision making abilities, proactively identifying critical-path actions, risks, and opportunities to accelerate progress - Experience with varying project management methodologies (ie. Waterfall, agile, scrum) - Proven self-starter with experience in a fast-paced, nimble environment Requirements - 5+ years of program or project management experience - Bachelor’s degree or higher education in engineering, science, or a related technical field. Business degree acceptable with aerospace experience - Proficiency in project management software tools and collaboration platforms such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, and Confluence - Proven ability to manage technical development and/or R&D scope - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), Capella Employees must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State and/or the U.S. Department of Commerce, as applicable. 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: $126,887 - $181,949 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 Software Architect – Network Monitori...
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: Onsite or Hybrid in Santa Clara / Bay Area, CA Travel: Up to 15%, domestic or international. Job ID: 1558 The Role: We are looking for a Senior Staff Software Architect to lead the design and evolution of our next-generation Network Monitoring Platform. 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 own the end-to-end architecture of a high-scale, data-intensive network monitoring platform — from data modeling and ingestion pipelines to cloud-native deployment. You are a hands-on technical leader who writes production code, drives critical architectural decisions, and has deep experience building systems that monitor large fleets of devices at scale. The ideal candidate brings strong Go and/or Rust expertise and thrives at the intersection of systems engineering and distributed data platforms. Responsibilities : - Architect cloud-native ingestion and processing pipelines capable of handling telemetry from hundreds of thousands of devices, leveraging streaming platforms and time-series storage at scale. - Define and own the platform’s unified YANG-based data model, spanning device configuration state, operational telemetry, and topology relationships across heterogeneous network environments, serving as the authoritative schema from which ingestion pipelines, storage structures, and API contracts are derived. - Write and review production-quality code in Go and/or Rust for performance-critical platform components including collectors, aggregators, and real-time processing engines. - Define and enforce data partitioning, sharding, and retention strategies to sustain high-volume device event streams while meeting latency and durability requirements. - Lead the design of cloud-native deployment patterns (Kubernetes, service mesh, autoscaling) to ensure the platform operates reliably at global scale across multi-cloud environments. - Evaluate and drive adoption of purpose-fit technologies — time-series databases, graph stores, stream processors — with a focus on operational scalability and long-term maintainability. - Partner with Product and Engineering to translate monitoring requirements into platform capabilities, ensuring architectural decisions are reflected in roadmap milestones and engineering specifications. - Mentor senior engineers through architecture reviews, coding standards, and hands-on technical guidance, raising the bar for platform quality and engineering practices. Requirements: - 12+ years of experience in software or platform architecture, with at least 5 years leading architecture for large-scale, data-intensive distributed systems. - Substantial experience building and operating device monitoring systems at scale — with direct exposure to telemetry ingestion pipelines, fleet management, and real-time alerting across large device populations. - Proven hands-on coding ability; production experience with Go and/or Rust is strongly preferred for this role. - Deep expertise in data modeling for high-volume systems, including schema design, time-series storage (InfluxDB/Timescale), event streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), and graph data models for network topology. - Solid understanding of cloud-native application design — including containerization, Kubernetes orchestration, microservices, and cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure. Preferred Qualifications: - Proficiency in both Go and Rust, with a track record of shipping production services in at least one of these languages. - Background in network management platforms or network equipment vendors (e.g., Juniper, Cisco, Nokia), with familiarity with telemetry protocols such as gNMI, NETCONF, or SNMP. - Experience designing multi-tenant SaaS platforms where data isolation, schema evolution, and scalability across customer tiers are first-class concerns. - Contributions to open-source infrastructure or observability projects, or published technical writing on distributed systems and data engineering topics. - Familiarity with techniques relevant to high-throughput data collection. The approximate base salary range for this position is $216,136 - $ 282,978 . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found 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 Staff Distributed Systems 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 Santa Clara, CA. Travel: Up to 15% domestic or international. Job ID: 1720 The Role: We are looking for a deeply hands-on Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to join the team building IonQ’s Network and Security Platform. You will own the backend services — ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, device management — that give operators real-time visibility into their networks and the intelligence to make them quantum-safe. This is infrastructure that matters: the systems you build will underpin IonQ’s mission to secure the world’s networks against quantum threats. In this role, you will own backend services end-to-end — from high-throughput ingestion pipelines collecting telemetry from large device fleets, to time-series storage, real-time processing engines, and the APIs that surface platform data to the rest of the organization. You are a deeply hands-on engineer who writes production-quality Go and/or Rust daily, takes pride in operational ownership, and brings strong distributed systems fundamentals to every problem you tackle. You will partner with and at times drive platform architecture decisions alongside the Principal Architect, setting technical direction for the platform and influencing how IonQ's engineering org approaches distributed systems problems more broadly. The ideal candidate has direct experience building data-intensive backend systems at scale — and is energized by the challenge of making complex infrastructure simple, observable, and dependable. Responsibilities : Backend Services & Production Code - Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust, measured by code quality, test coverage, and on-time delivery of service milestones. - Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP, ensuring reliable data collection across large device fleets. - Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs that expose platform data to internal consumers and external integrations, evaluated by uptime, latency SLAs, and adoption by downstream teams. Data Engineering & Storage - Implement and evolve the time-series storage layer (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or equivalent), optimizing for query performance, retention policies, and data fidelity under production load. - Build event streaming pipelines using Kafka or Kinesis with at-least-once or exactly-once semantics, validated through integration tests and production monitoring. - Design data partitioning and archival strategies that sustain target ingest volumes while meeting defined latency and durability SLAs. Platform Reliability & Operations - Own service reliability end-to-end — participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive systemic improvements tracked via post-mortems and reduction in repeat incidents. - Instrument all services with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) so that production issues can be diagnosed and resolved within defined SLOs. - Identify systemic reliability, scalability, or architectural gaps across the platform — not just within your service area — and drive org-wide initiatives to resolve them. Cloud-Native Infrastructure - Package and deploy services as containerized workloads on Kubernetes, maintaining infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. - Contribute to multi-cloud deployment patterns that meet platform availability targets and data residency requirements. Collaboration & Engineering Quality - Partner with the Principal Architect to translate platform architecture decisions into tested, production-grade implementations with clear engineering specifications. - Define the engineering standards, code review culture, and mentorship frameworks for the platform team; coach Staff and Senior engineers; and act as a cross-organizational technical resource for distributed systems and data infrastructure questions across IonQ. Requirements: - 12+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a strong record of shipping production services at scale. - Proven, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or Rust — you write these languages regularly and can demonstrate production systems you have built with them. - Solid experience building and operating distributed data systems: event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent), time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines. - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once vs. at-least-once processing tradeoffs. - Experience with cloud-native deployment: containerization (Docker), Kubernetes orchestration, and operating services across at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Familiarity with observability tooling — structured logging, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent), and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry or equivalent). - Comfortable writing SQL and working with both relational and time-series data models; experience with schema design and query optimization. - Strong engineering practices including TDD, code review, CI/CD, and on-call ownership — plus a demonstrated track record of defining and evangelizing these practices at the organizational level across multiple teams or companies. - Established record of setting technical direction at the organizational level — shaping how engineering teams across IonQ approach distributed systems and infrastructure problems, beyond a single team or domain. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with network telemetry protocols (gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP) or prior work at a network equipment vendor or network management platform company (e.g., Juniper, Cisco, Nokia). - Hands-on experience with graph databases or graph data models for network topology (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom adjacency representations). - Familiarity with YANG data modeling or prior experience working with device configuration schemas in network management contexts. - Experience building multi-tenant SaaS backend services with strong data isolation and per-tenant resource management. - Contributions to open-source infrastructure, observability, or networking projects; or published technical writing on distributed systems topics. - Experience working in or adjacent to regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, NIST, or equivalent). The approximate base salary range for this position is $216,136 - $282,978 . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found 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 Materials Planner
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, United Kingdom Travel: Up to 10%, International Job ID: 1895 The Role: We are looking for a Senior Materials Planner to join our Supply Chain and Inventory team in Oxford. You would be working closely with engineering, manufacturing and procurement to make sure the right parts arrive when the build needs them. Our engineering builds and New Product Introduction programmes move at the pace of the parts that arrive. When a single long lead item slips, a build slot sits idle and the schedule behind it shifts. Today the picture of what is on order, what is late and what that does to the next build lives in several places at once, across MRP data, vendor conversations and spreadsheets. Nobody owns the whole picture, and that is the job. You will run system level materials planning from MRP data, turning forecast into a build schedule people can rely on. You will source and negotiate with vendors, raise purchase requisitions and chase deliveries that are drifting. A good deal of this role is telling people early that a date has moved. This is an in office role in Oxford, five days a week. Materials planning here depends on being close to the builds, the stores and the people running them. Responsibilities: In this position, you will have the opportunity to improve material availability, accelerate production timelines and strengthen supply chain reliability across engineering and NPI programmes. Your key responsibilities can be split into two categories: Planning and scheduling - Execute system level materials planning from MRP data to support engineering builds and NPI schedules - Publish and maintain daily and weekly build schedules from forecast analysis and material availability - Monitor, report and resolve material shortages, discrepancies and constraints before they stop a build - Manage production work orders and report on material readiness and build progress Vendor and supply - Source and negotiate with vendors, including obtaining quotes and agreeing lead times - Raise purchase requisitions and expedite deliveries that are slipping - Act as the point of contact between vendors and the internal teams waiting on parts - Work across engineering, manufacturing and procurement to clear blockers on critical builds Requirements: To be successful, you will need five or more years of materials planning in a manufacturing environment with multi level bills of materials, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. You will have a working command of MRP across planning, purchasing, inventory and manufacturing operations, hands on experience with ERP and PLM systems, and the confidence to analyse large sets of data and act on what they tell you. You will need to lead cross functional work, speak plainly to vendors and internal teams alike, and operate with urgency in an environment where priorities move. You'd be a great fit with: - Experience with NetSuite (Oracle) - Experience with Power BI - Experience with Google Workspace - A relevant certification such as CIPS, CILT, APICS CPIM or CSCP - Project management experience 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 Manager Internal Audit - Business Process
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 Senior Manager Internal Audit - Business Process is a high-impact leadership role responsible for steering a risk-intelligent audit function. Operating as a senior-level individual contributor, you will bridge the gap between technical control requirements and enterprise-wide strategic objectives. Responsibilities: Audit Strategy & Planning - Dynamic Risk Management: Lead enterprise-wide risk assessments to develop and execute a fluid, risk-based annual audit plan aligned with organizational objectives. - Annual SOX Audit: Lead SOX control design and operating effectiveness including identification of gaps, operating deficiencies, remediation plan and partnership with process owners to optimize control environment - Continuous Monitoring: Evaluate emerging risks (geopolitical, technological, and regulatory) to ensure audit coverage remains proactive and forward-looking. - Design and execute a comprehensive ERM assessment framework to identify and evaluate high-velocity risks across strategic, operational, international, IT, and legal/compliance pillars, ensuring governance structures and audit priorities adapt to the organization’s global growth and evolving tech-sector requirements. Business Process & Operational Excellence - End-to-End Process Mastery: Lead audits of core value streams, including Quote-to-Cash (Q2C), Procure-to-Pay (P2P), and Hire-to-Retire (H2R), identifying control gaps at critical hand-off points. - Manufacturing & Supply Chain: Evaluate controls within manufacturing environments, focusing on inventory valuation, shop floor efficiencies, Bill of Materials (BOM) accuracy, and supply chain resilience. - Root Cause Analysis: Move beyond identifying symptoms to uncovering root causes, delivering practical recommendations that improve business performance and operational velocity. Business Combinations & M&A Integration - Integration Leadership: Lead the post-acquisition integration of newly acquired entities into the corporate Internal Control Framework. - Due Diligence & Day-1 Readiness: Support pre-acquisition due diligence and ensure acquired entities meet essential regulatory and SOX compliance requirements within established timelines. - Accounting for Combinations: Oversee the controls surrounding purchase accounting (ASC 805), including fair value measurements and the consolidation of fragmented financial systems. Stakeholder & Executive Engagement - Trusted Advisor: Serve as a primary liaison to senior management, navigating sensitive audit findings with diplomacy and commercial acumen. - Executive Communication: Distill complex audit results into concise, actionable insights for the Audit Committee and Board of Directors. SOX & Regulatory Compliance (GovCon Focus) - SOX Stewardship: Lead the Section 404 compliance program and coordinate with external auditors to ensure a seamless year-end execution. - GovCon Oversight: Evaluate internal controls specific to government contracting environments, ensuring compliance with FAR, DFARS, and CAS requirements. (Preferred) Innovation & AI - Digital Transformation: Leverage AI and data analytics to transition from manual sampling to continuous monitoring and automated control testing. You’d be a good fit with: - Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - Experience: 8–10+ years of progressive experience in internal audit or public accounting (Big 4 preferred). - M&A Track Record: Proven experience managing internal control transitions during business combinations or legal entity restructurings. Technical & Professional Skills - Certifications: CPA, CIA, or CISA preferred. - Framework Knowledge: Mastery of GAAP, COSO Internal Control Framework, PCAOB and IIA Standards. You’d be a great fit with: - Industry Savvy : Strong background in manufacturing or organizations engaged in government contracting. - Systems & Data: Proficiency in ERP systems (Netsuite/Oracle). Location: College Park, MD, or Remote, US Travel: Up to 25% Job ID: 1352 The approximate base salary range for this position is $128,445 - $167,497. The total compensation package includes base, bonus, and equity. 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 Front End 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 at our Santa Clara, CA office, with the option to work a few days a week remotely. Travel: Up to 15%, domestic or international. Job ID: 1903 The Role: We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer with 5+/8+ years of experience to design and build the interface for our Quantum Security platform. This role blends product design thinking with hands-on frontend engineering — you'll turn complex network and security data into interfaces that are intuitive, fast, and trustworthy for security and network teams. As a senior member of the team, you'll also help shape frontend architecture, mentor junior engineers, and drive design/engineering best practices. You'll work closely with product managers, backend engineers, and QA/solutions teams to ship features that make sense to real users under real operational pressure. Responsibilities : - Design and implement responsive, accessible UI components for the platform using modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, or similar). - Translate complex network security concepts — topology maps, risk/posture scores, policy rules, alerts, remediation steps — into clear, usable visual interfaces. - Own end-to-end UX for key workflows: onboarding, network/device discovery, dashboards, drill-down investigations, and reporting. - Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups (Figma or similar) and iterate based on user feedback and usability testing. - Collaborate with backend engineers to define and consume APIs, ensuring data-heavy views (topology graphs, tables, charts) remain performant at scale. - Partner with QA and Solutions Testing teams to validate that workflows behave correctly and intuitively across real customer network scenarios. - Conduct or support usability testing and gather feedback from customers, sales engineers, and support teams to continuously refine the UX. - Maintain and evolve a component/design system for consistency across the platform. - Ensure UI meets accessibility (WCAG) and cross-browser compatibility standards. - Monitor frontend performance (load times, rendering of large topology/data sets) and optimize as needed. - Help define and evolve frontend architecture, tooling, and coding standards across the team. - Mentor mid-level and junior frontend/UI engineers through code reviews, pairing, and design critiques. - Drive technical decisions on state management, component architecture, and performance for a growing, data-intensive platform. Requirements: - 5+/8+ years of experience as a frontend engineer, UI/UX engineer, or product designer with strong coding ability, ideally on data-dense or technical SaaS products. - Demonstrated experience owning frontend architecture decisions and mentoring other engineers. - Proficiency in modern JavaScript/TypeScript and a component-based framework (React preferred; Vue/Angular acceptable). - Strong UX design skills — information architecture, interaction design, visual hierarchy — with a portfolio demonstrating design-to-code work. - Experience designing interfaces for complex, data-heavy domains (dashboards, network/graph visualizations, security tools, DevOps tools, or similar). - Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD. - Familiarity with REST APIs and working closely with backend teams to shape data contracts for UI needs. - Understanding of responsive design, accessibility standards (WCAG), and cross-browser/device compatibility. - Ability to conduct or contribute to usability testing and translate findings into design/engineering improvements. Preferred Qualifications: - Prior experience in network security, cybersecurity, or IT infrastructure SaaS products. - Familiarity with data visualization libraries (D3.js, Recharts, Cytoscape.js, or similar) for rendering network topology and graph-based data. - Basic understanding of Layer 2/Layer 3 networking concepts (VLANs, routing, ACLs) to better design for technical users. - Experience with design systems and component libraries at scale. - Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and frontend testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, Cypress). What Success Looks Like: - Complex network and security data is presented in ways that are immediately understandable to security/network admins. - Key workflows (discovery, posture review, remediation) feel fast, guided, and low-friction even for less technical users. - Design and engineering teams ship UI changes with confidence, backed by usability validation and a consistent design system. - Frontend architecture scales cleanly as the platform and team grow, with junior engineers leveling up under your guidance. 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 - $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!
Senior Distributed Systems 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 Santa Clara, CA. Travel: Up to 15% domestic or international. Job ID: 1722 The Role: We are looking for a deeply hands-on Senior Distributed Systems Engineer to join the team building IonQ’s Network and Security Platform. You will own the backend services — ingestion pipelines, telemetry processing, device management — that give operators real-time visibility into their networks and the intelligence to make them quantum-safe. This is infrastructure that matters: the systems you build will underpin IonQ’s mission to secure the world’s networks against quantum threats. In this role, you will own backend services end-to-end — from high-throughput ingestion pipelines collecting telemetry from large device fleets, to time-series storage, real-time processing engines, and the APIs that surface platform data to the rest of the organization. You are a deeply hands-on engineer who writes production-quality Go and/or Rust daily, takes pride in operational ownership, and brings strong distributed systems fundamentals to every problem you tackle. You will work closely with the Principal Architect to translate platform architecture decisions into reliable, well-tested, production-grade implementations. The ideal candidate has direct experience building data-intensive backend systems at scale — and is energized by the challenge of making complex infrastructure simple, observable, and dependable. Responsibilities : Backend Services & Production Code - Design and ship production backend services in Go and/or Rust, measured by code quality, test coverage, and on-time delivery of service milestones. - Build and maintain high-throughput telemetry ingestion pipelines using gNMI, NETCONF, and SNMP, ensuring reliable data collection across large device fleets. - Develop RESTful and gRPC APIs that expose platform data to internal consumers and external integrations, evaluated by uptime, latency SLAs, and adoption by downstream teams. Data Engineering & Storage - Implement and evolve the time-series storage layer (InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, or equivalent), optimizing for query performance, retention policies, and data fidelity under production load. - Build event streaming pipelines using Kafka or Kinesis with at-least-once or exactly-once semantics, validated through integration tests and production monitoring. - Design data partitioning and archival strategies that sustain target ingest volumes while meeting defined latency and durability SLAs. Platform Reliability & Operations - Own service reliability end-to-end — participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive systemic improvements tracked via post-mortems and reduction in repeat incidents. - Instrument all services with structured logging, distributed tracing, and metrics (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) so that production issues can be diagnosed and resolved within defined SLOs. Cloud-Native Infrastructure - Package and deploy services as containerized workloads on Kubernetes, maintaining infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) across AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. - Contribute to multi-cloud deployment patterns that meet platform availability targets and data residency requirements. Collaboration & Engineering Quality - Partner with the Principal Architect to translate platform architecture decisions into tested, production-grade implementations with clear engineering specifications. - Lead code reviews and mentor junior engineers through pairing and technical guidance, raising the team’s overall bar for correctness and maintainability. Requirements: - 6+ years of backend software engineering experience, with a strong record of shipping production services at scale. - Proven, hands-on proficiency in Go and/or Rust — you write these languages regularly and can demonstrate production systems you have built with them. - Solid experience building and operating distributed data systems: event streaming (Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent), time-series databases, and high-throughput ingestion pipelines. - Strong fundamentals in distributed systems: consistency models, failure modes, backpressure, idempotency, and exactly-once vs. at-least-once processing tradeoffs. - Experience with cloud-native deployment: containerization (Docker), Kubernetes orchestration, and operating services across at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure). - Familiarity with observability tooling — structured logging, metrics (Prometheus/Grafana or equivalent), and distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry or equivalent). - Comfortable writing SQL and working with both relational and time-series data models; experience with schema design and query optimization. - Strong engineering practices: test-driven or test-informed development, code review, CI/CD, and operational ownership including on-call. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with network telemetry protocols (gNMI, NETCONF, SNMP) or prior work at a network equipment vendor or network management platform company (e.g., Juniper, Cisco, Nokia). - Hands-on experience with graph databases or graph data models for network topology (e.g., Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or custom adjacency representations). - Familiarity with YANG data modeling or prior experience working with device configuration schemas in network management contexts. - Experience building multi-tenant SaaS backend services with strong data isolation and per-tenant resource management. - Contributions to open-source infrastructure, observability, or networking projects; or published technical writing on distributed systems topics. - Experience working in or adjacent to regulated, security-conscious environments (FedRAMP, NIST, or equivalent). The approximate base salary range for this position is $163,430 - $213,972 . The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found 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!
Recruiting Coordinator
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 Travel: N/A Job ID: 1938 The Role: We are seeking a detail-oriented Recruiting Coordinator to keep our hiring process running smoothly as IonQ grows. You will coordinate interviews, support candidates and hiring teams, and help run recruiting projects such as hiring events and our internship program. This role is ideal for someone early in their talent acquisition or HR career who is highly organized, enjoys working with people, and wants to help shape how AI tools are used to make recruiting faster and better. Responsibilities : - Schedule and coordinate interviews across time zones, managing calendars, interview panels, video links and on-site visits - Serve as a point of contact for candidates regarding scheduling and any pertinent information regarding interview schedules - Maintain accurate candidate records in our applicant tracking system (ATS), including stages, and required documentation - Support recruiting events such as career fairs, university and veteran hiring events, and candidate open houses, including logistics, materials and follow-up - Help run the internship program: scheduling interviews, tracking intern cohorts, coordinating onboarding and supporting program events - Use AI tools in day-to-day work, such as drafting candidate communications, summarizing interview feedback and automating scheduling tasks, and share what works with the wider team - Identify manual steps in the coordination process and propose AI-enabled or automated improvements - Assist with recruiting reports, hiring metrics, audits and other Talent Acquisition projects as needed Requirements: - 2+ years of experience in recruiting coordination, HR, People Operations or a related field - Hands-on experience with an ATS or HRIS (e.g., Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, BambooHR, ADP) - Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini) at work, and interest in finding new ways to apply them - Strong attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information - Excellent communication and customer service skills, with a candidate-first mindset - Ability to prioritize many requests and work efficiently in a fast-paced, changing environment - Experience supporting events or programs, such as internships, career fairs or campus recruiting, is a 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: $65,000 - $85,000 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!
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