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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 has achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity and set world records in quantum computing performance. IonQ's quantum systems are helping customers including Amazon Web Services and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense.
You will lead the end-to-end delivery of IonQ's quantum computing systems to customer sites across Europe and Asia. This role owns deployment and commissioning from early planning and export through installation, commissioning, and customer handover. You will work across engineering, science, global mobility, legal and trade compliance, supply chain, logistics, facilities, security, and customer teams. The role suits someone who takes ownership, designs processes where none exist, and sweats the detail themselves, as support functions are still being built at this growth stage.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead planning and execution of quantum system deployment and commissioning at customer sites across Europe and Asia
- Run export, import, and customs work with legal, trade compliance, and logistics teams for highly specialized equipment
- Coordinate global mobility for deploying teams, covering visas, work authorization, travel, and field assignment readiness
- Drive site readiness with facilities, security, networking, and customer stakeholders; coordinate staffing, installation sequencing, and vendors onsite
- Track risk and critical path; resolve issues across internal teams, vendors, and customers
The role is based in Oxford, on-site three days a week, with travel of approximately 30-40% depending on deployment schedules.
Requirements:
- Five or more years running technical programmes or deployments of complex hardware systems
- Technical degree or equivalent experience
- Experience moving equipment and people across borders; export, customs, and visas are familiar ground
- Comfortable holding a critical path across teams that do not report to you
- Ability to explain technical status clearly to engineers, executives, and customers
Desirable qualifications:
- Experience taking a first-of-its-kind product from prototype into production
- Installing or commissioning complex hardware at customer sites internationally
- Work with enterprise, government, or research customers during onsite deployment
- A second European language (English is the working requirement)
- Exposure to trapped ion systems, photonics, or quantum computing, or an MS in a related technical field
