Senior Manager

Senior Manager focuses on play an important part in shaping the operational processes, tools, and systems that support our work in building the world’s most advanced quantum systems.

What the role involves

• Play an important part in shaping the operational processes, tools, and systems that support our work in building the world’s most advanced quantum systems.
• Develop a team of physicists responsible for maintaining and improving IonQ’s commercial quantum computing fleet.
• Build team strategy and tactical plans across fleet operations, incident management, deployment, and operational improvement.
• Managing priorities, schedules, costs, inventory, and sparing strategies across the operations programme.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, physicists, senior leaders, customers, and vendors to improve operational outcomes and influence future designs.
• Manage key performance metrics, while leading resolution of complex operational issues impacting commercial QPU systems.

Skills and requirements

• Experience in quantum computing is valuable, but we’re equally interested in leaders with strong exposure to complex systems, Dev.
• Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, automation, or 24/7 operations.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Physics or a related field, with experience managing physicists, scientists, system engineers, or other technical teams.
• 5+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience, ideally including ownership of multiple projects, priorities, and deliverables.

Confirmed role details

• 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.

Additional role context

• Zeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results.
• The company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance in 2025.