Jobs at IonQ

Leads enterprise sales across EMEA for SAR data subscriptions, tasking capacity, analytics, and satellite systems. Owns new business and expansion quotas, develops strategic government, defense, and enterprise accounts, manages complex consultative sales cycles, responds to tenders, forecasts pipeline, negotiates contracts, and builds executive relationships. Partners with technical, product, mission, capture, and proposal teams while representing the company at industry and defense events.

Lead development of IonQ’s cloud platform, building scalable and fault-tolerant backend services for asynchronous quantum job processing. Define APIs, implement features, improve testing, observability, security, stability, and continuous delivery, and participate in on-call rotations. Integrate AI capabilities, troubleshoot production issues, mentor engineers, and drive technical alignment across cross-functional teams.

Lead the architecture of IonQ’s quantum-computing system software, spanning real-time and non-real-time hardware management, low-level orchestration, distributed processing, and user interfaces. Define and document scalable architectures across a family of products, coordinate with software architects and technical leads, research future requirements, and ensure implementations align with architectural intent. Coach technical leads and collaborate with infrastructure, firmware, and compiler teams across the US and UK.

Lead a team of electronics engineers while providing hands-on technical direction for quantum computing electronics. Own subsystem architecture, mixed-signal and high-speed design, schematic capture, PCB layout, verification, testing, documentation, and productionization. Manage roadmaps, schedules, resources, risks, and cross-functional coordination with physics, firmware, mechanical, and systems teams. Guide hardware development from experimental prototypes through manufacturable, rack-ready production systems and help expand the engineering organization.

Own and architect IonQ’s hardware-in-the-loop test estate for quantum-computing software. Define QA and staging systems, coordinate builds with Manufacturing, automate provisioning and recovery, establish testing and release-gating strategies, and ensure system availability and maintenance. Lead the initial test systems engineering hire, grow the team, and collaborate across infrastructure, IT, Facilities, Manufacturing, Software, and Science teams.

Own end-to-end integration testing for IonQ’s quantum computing software and systems. Design automated test suites, CI infrastructure, system-level test strategies, performance validation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Manage test fleet configurations, triage failures, report regressions, and improve testability across software, hardware, and physics teams. The role also supports operator tooling, calibration workflows, test observability, and reliable shared quantum computing environments.

Drive control electronics programs across hardware, gateware, firmware, and testing from development through production. Build schedules, track dependencies, manage risks, coordinate procurement and suppliers, resolve component issues, align engineering and physics teams, and provide executive reporting. The role requires technical fluency in electronics, firmware or RTL, hardware testing, and prototype or low-volume production programs. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Lead end-to-end delivery of IonQ’s systems software roadmap across multiple concurrent quantum-computing programs. Coordinate runtime, orchestration, tools, controller, transport, hardware, science, and integration teams; manage dependencies, capacity conflicts, intake, risks, milestones, and technical debt. Maintain accurate plans and reporting, communicate trade-offs to senior stakeholders, and develop lightweight delivery standards across US and UK sites.

Lead reliability strategy for cloud-managed SaaS platforms and customer-deployed infrastructure. Own SLOs, error budgets, observability, resilience, disaster recovery, incident response, on-call operations, cloud security posture, and stateful or streaming platform reliability. Design chaos experiments, failover automation, capacity and cost optimization, and AI-driven triage and self-healing workflows. Provide technical leadership, establish cross-team standards, mentor engineers, and command severe production incidents.

Leads IonQ’s global customer success and technical support organization for space solutions, including satellite systems, geospatial data, and optical communications. Owns onboarding, adoption, mission outcomes, renewals, retention, expansion, and support performance. Builds the operating model, tiered support function, SLAs, escalation processes, tooling, knowledge base, and distributed team. Partners with engineering, product, mission operations, and channel partners while serving government, defense, enterprise, and international customers.

Leads complex spacecraft and aerospace hardware development programs across design, qualification, production, and delivery. Owns scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, resources, procurement, subcontractors, and technical deliverables. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams and stakeholders, translates requirements into execution plans, drives accountability, resolves issues, and communicates status to leadership. Also improves program management practices and supports knowledge sharing across the organization.

Own strategic customer relationships for IonQ’s quantum computing platform, developing lifecycle and adoption plans, defining health metrics, reducing churn, and driving renewals and expansion. Translate technical capabilities into business value, shape new service offerings, and collaborate with Product, Marketing, Sales, and Engineering. Represent IonQ in industry forums while aligning cross-functional initiatives and advising executive and technical stakeholders.

Serve as the primary technical customer advocate for IonQ’s quantum computing platform. Lead onboarding, platform adoption, circuit and workflow optimization, troubleshooting, technical enablement, workshops, and customer health analytics. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing to improve platform capabilities and documentation. Represent IonQ at industry forums and support global customers through travel and occasional off-hours engagement.

Provides frontline technical support for IonQ quantum computing customers, troubleshooting platform issues and job failures, assisting with onboarding, communicating during incidents, maintaining documentation, monitoring usage, and escalating complex cases. The role requires technical customer support experience, basic Python, familiarity with SaaS platforms, REST APIs, and helpdesk systems, plus strong communication and troubleshooting skills. Exposure to quantum frameworks, notebooks, SQL, and ticketing tools is preferred.

Own the product vision and roadmap for IonQ’s next-generation quantum systems, beginning with Superion 256. Partner with customers, scientists, engineers, and business teams to translate frontier quantum capabilities into differentiated cloud and on-premises products. Define system requirements, prioritize investments and tradeoffs, validate market opportunities, guide customer adoption, and shape future product generations based on deployment outcomes.

Develop and optimize quantum algorithms and applications for scientific and commercial impact, collaborating with partners and driving innovation.

Own and scale IonQ’s NetSuite ecosystem and connected finance systems. Responsibilities include NetSuite administration, workflow and module optimization, ERP migrations and integrations, requirements gathering, cross-functional solution delivery, financial systems administration, and SOX-compliant controls. The role supports finance, supply chain, operations, IT, manufacturing, government contracts, and international business while managing internal and external support resources.

Designs and engineers automated internal audit workflows that enable continuous assurance. Responsibilities include re-engineering audit processes, orchestrating AI agents, developing prompt and agent libraries, integrating Power Automate and GRC platforms, automating document and population testing, creating real-time risk dashboards, and ensuring AI governance, privacy, explainability, and human validation. The role requires technical audit transformation experience, LLM orchestration, automation platforms, SQL or Python, data governance, and data warehouse expertise.

Own federal sales across civilian agencies and the intelligence community, including account strategy, pipeline development, multi-million-dollar deal execution, contract closure, and customer handoff. Build relationships with senior government leaders, identify emerging-market opportunities, define territory metrics, understand competitive positioning, and coordinate with technical, legal, finance, marketing, and customer-success teams. Represent IonQ at industry events and sell offerings spanning space, AI, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and quantum technologies.

Own sales strategy, pipeline, and full-cycle deal execution for NRO and U.S. Combatant Command accounts. Drive new business and account growth across national security space, ISR, mission systems, SAR, DevSecOps, AI, and quantum offerings. Build senior customer relationships, develop emerging markets, coordinate technical and business teams, track territory success metrics, and represent IonQ at industry events. Active TS/SCI clearance and seven years of relevant federal sales experience are required.