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IonQ is the world's leading quantum computing platform and merchant supplier, delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company achieved a world record in quantum computing performance in 2025 with 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity and serves major customers including Amazon Web Services and AstraZeneca.
You will lead global manufacturing programmes for IonQ's quantum computing systems and own complex customer site deployments across the Americas. This role orchestrates worldwide subsystem manufacturing—with photonics and advanced electronics at the centre—and keeps deployment programmes running to plan.
You will drive execution across engineering, science, global mobility, legal, supply chain, logistics, facilities, security, and customer teams to ensure advanced quantum systems are built, delivered, installed, and commissioned successfully. The work suits someone comfortable in ambiguity, at ease with international programmes and their dependencies, and able to carry a site from early planning through onsite execution to customer handover.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead planning and execution of global quantum system manufacturing across every production facility
- Lead deployment and commissioning at customer sites across the Americas, from planning through to handover
- Work with research, production, compliance and logistics teams to keep builds and subassembly deliveries on schedule
- Run site readiness with facilities, security, networking and customer stakeholders, and coordinate staffing, installation sequencing and vendors onsite
- Manage risk, issues and escalation across internal teams, vendors and customers so that schedules hold
The role is based in Bothell, Washington, on site at least three days a week, with travel of around 30%, mostly within the United States, and occasional trips to the Oxford site.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Five or more years in technical programme management, manufacturing or deployment of complex hardware systems
- Technical degree or equivalent experience
- Experience running international programmes that pulled together logistics, facilities, trade compliance, mobility and field operations
- Proven ability to hold a critical path across teams that do not report to you
- Clear written and spoken communication skills and confidence to decide when the picture is incomplete
Desirable qualifications:
- Experience scaling high technology hardware factory operations across more than one continent
- Familiarity with facilities buildout, infrastructure readiness or construction coordination for technical installations
- Onsite deployment experience with enterprise, government or research customers
- Exposure to trapped ion systems, photonics, quantum computing or comparable advanced hardware
- MS in physics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or a related technical field
Note: This position requires access to technology subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment is contingent on verifying U.S. Person status (U.S. citizen, national, permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as refugee/asylee) for export controls and government contracts work.
