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Designs, troubleshoots, and deploys electronics reliability fixes for operational trapped-ion quantum computers. Responsibilities include root-causing electrical and control-system issues, designing and testing PCBs and system-level solutions, leading fleet-wide hardware upgrades, retrofitting live systems, and standardizing fixes through documentation and engineering change control. The role collaborates with Operations, Science, Manufacturing, and Engineering to improve uptime, reliability, observability, and operating costs.

Leads end-to-end spacecraft programs from development through qualification, production, and delivery. Manages cross-functional engineering teams, schedules, budgets, risks, technical requirements, procurement, subcontractors, and interdependencies across a project portfolio. Provides strategic prioritization, data-driven decision-making, executive communication, and mentorship to program managers and team members. Requires aerospace hardware program expertise and familiarity with Waterfall, Agile, and Scrum frameworks.

Lead technical programs across their full lifecycle, managing cross-functional teams, portfolios, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communication. Translate technical requirements into delivery plans, prioritize initiatives, track progress, and drive data-informed decisions. The role supports component upgrades, design, and spacecraft integration while mentoring project resources and applying waterfall, agile, and scrum methodologies in a fast-paced aerospace and national security environment.

Leads a software organization of approximately 20 engineers developing the full software stack for quantum computers, including real-time control, monitoring, compiler, and application layers. Owns software roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, delivery, DevOps, release management, support processes, cross-team collaboration, and stakeholder communication. Manages team performance, wellbeing, career development, and future growth while driving scalable engineering practices.

Support financial statement disclosures and quarterly/annual audit schedules, manage equity administration (grants, rollforwards, EPS), coordinate cross-functional data collection, reconcile compensation and tax reporting, respond to employee equity questions, and improve/implement systems and processes.

Administer and maintain IonQ's Salesforce Government Cloud org for federal sales: govern access and compliance, build declarative enhancements, manage data quality and releases, support Salesforce Shield controls and audits, produce reports/dashboards, triage federal requests, lead UAT, and maintain documentation and runbooks.

Design, deploy, and operate on-premises and cloud HPC clusters; develop automation and tooling for Linux systems; support researchers running simulations; integrate HPC with infrastructure; manage projects, priorities, and technical risks; become the internal resource for configuring, automating, and running HPC workloads.

The Senior Optical Test Setup Engineer will design and improve optical testing infrastructure for integrated photonics, automate test procedures, and collaborate with teams to enhance testing features.

Lead full-cycle PCBA design for spaceflight hardware: requirements, schematic/layout, bring-up, test, verification, and manufacturing handoff. Collaborate with RF, mechanical, software, and FPGA teams, mentor junior engineers, engage CMs/vendors, and drive failure analysis and flight-readiness for high-reliability satellite electronics.

Lead integrated photonic device and circuit layout, supporting commercial foundry PDK development and quantum photonic platforms. Build PCell libraries and automated Python-based layout workflows, own full-reticle tapeouts from floorplanning through GDS generation, perform DRC/LVS verification, lead layout reviews, and collaborate with fabrication and test teams to validate components against measured performance.