IonQ

Account Executive

• Develop a pipeline of sales opportunities for IonQ’s Quantum Computers, Networks, Applications and Access
• Qualify the opportunities based on budget availability, skills, interest, executive commitment, and timing
• Form proposals for access to IonQ’s system via the cloud, as a remote dedicated system, or an “on-prem” dedicated system
• Negotiate agreements and close business
• Drive customer satisfaction, bringing attention to the broader team for any inhibitors or concerns related to the relationship

Sales Executive, Quantum Computing – Financial Services

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead IonQ's R&D in quantum algorithms specifically for the finance sector, covering key areas such as portfolio optimization, risk modeling, derivatives pricing, fraud detection, and post-quantum security.
• Define and drive the quantum finance research strategy, establishing long-term technical directions that align with IonQ's overarching product roadmap and partnership objectives.
• Architect and validate quantum algorithmic frameworks suitable for both NISQ (Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum) and future fault-tolerant architectures.
• Mentor and guide senior researchers and engineers, cultivating a high-impact, results-driven, and collaborative research environment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with the Quantum Solutions, Product, and Business teams to successfully translate core research outcomes into deployable, real-world applications for enterprise clients.
• Engage strategically with leading financial institutions and regulatory bodies to facilitate the early adoption and shaping of quantum technologies in secure financial computing.
• Establish and nurture collaborations with top universities, national laboratories, and government organizations to significantly expand IonQ's external research ecosystem.
• Publish thought-leading research at premier conferences and in top-tier journals, establishing IonQ's reputation as a global authority in both quantum finance and quantum-secure architectures.
• Advise executive leadership on critical emerging trends in quantum computing, cryptographic security, and AI-driven financial technologies.

Staff Researcher – Quantum Finance Engineering

Product Manager

• Understand The Market: work internally and externally to build and communicate a strong point of view about our customers and their needs
• Understand our Technology: immerse yourself in IonQ’s technology, engineering processes and R&D roadmap
• Define and Align: build strong relationships with engineering to champion user and business needs
• Deliver: Lead cross-functional efforts to define product value proposition, positioning and go-to-market strategy
• Learn and Iterate: work closely with customers, customer success, applications research, internal data, and more to understand product success

Product Management Director – Quantum Computing

Technical Program Manager

• Define and own IonQ’s QKD and Secure Quantum Networking strategy, setting the long-term technical vision and roadmap in alignment with research and product priorities.
• Lead multidisciplinary research and engineering initiatives, coordinating efforts across quantum hardware, control systems, networking protocols, and cryptographic software.
• Architect and validate QKD systems, including entanglement-based and prepare-and-measure schemes, integration with classical networks, and hybrid quantum-classical key management frameworks.
• Collaborate with government, defense, and financial partners to design and execute pilot deployments demonstrating secure quantum communication use cases.
• Serve as principal investigator for funded programs, managing deliverables, timelines, and technical milestones across IonQ’s global research ecosystem.
• Guide technical program execution, ensuring scientific breakthroughs translate into deployable, standards-compliant systems.
• Represent IonQ in standards bodies, policy forums, and consortia, influencing the evolution of QKD and quantum network interoperability standards.
• Publish and present research outcomes in leading journals and conferences, establishing IonQ’s leadership in quantum-safe communications.
• Mentor senior scientists and engineers, offering technical guidance in quantum optics, cryptography, and network architecture.
• Advise executive leadership on strategic investments, partnerships, and technology readiness for commercial quantum security solutions.

Principal Researcher – Technical Program Manager, Quantum Key Distribution, Secure Quantum Networking

• Define and lead IonQ’s global research roadmap in quantum complexity theory, cryptography, quantum information, and many-body physics.
• Identify and shape long-horizon opportunities for intractable quantum simulation, post-quantum cryptography, and provable quantum advantage.
• Guide cross-functional teams (hardware, systems, algorithms, applications) to ensure IonQ’s platforms support breakthrough complexity-class demonstrations and cryptographic primitives.
• Serve as a senior scientific advisor to IonQ leadership on strategy, publications, and long-term competitive positioning.
• Build and lead a world-class team of quantum finance theorists and research scientists.
• Shape external partnerships with global banks, regulators, government agencies, and industry consortia to co-develop pilot programs demonstrating real-world quantum value.
• Ensure scalability and integration of research outcomes into IonQ’s commercial product stack through close collaboration with product management and solutions engineering.
• Influence corporate strategy by providing executive leadership with insights into emerging trends, competitive landscape, and technology readiness in quantum finance and cryptography.
• Guide technical excellence and innovation, setting standards for scientific rigor, reproducibility, and impact across all teams under your purview.
• Develop and manage budgets and resource allocations for global R&D and partnership initiatives.
• Mentor senior leaders and principal researchers, fostering a high-performance, innovation-driven culture.
• Act as a strong people manager - setting clear expectations, conducting performance reviews, providing continuous feedback, and supporting career development and promotion across your team.
• Represent IonQ as a global thought leader, delivering keynote talks, publishing in top-tier venues, and shaping standards and policy dialogues around quantum computing in finance.

Senior Director, Quantum Finance Theory

General Counsel

• Provide legal counsel on securities law compliance and SEC reporting, including annual, current and periodic reports and proxy statements, disclosure controls and procedures.
• Assist in corporate governance matters, including supporting the board of directors and implementing and managing corporate governance policies and assisting with subsidiary management.
• Assist with mergers, acquisitions, investments and other strategic transactions, including term sheets, diligence, preparation of transaction agreements, the closing process and integration.
• Support on equity matters, including equity issuances, equity awards, plan management and Section 16 filings.
• Advising on investor relations, corporate communications and corporate financial reporting functions.

Senior Counsel, Corporate

• Own the end-to-end process of creating novel quantum applications for IonQ quantum computers, starting from idea generation, customer engagement, proposal writing, execution, delivery, documentation and report-out
• Create and manage project timelines, milestones and deliverables across multiple projects and multiple teams.
• Drive clear communication across multi-stakeholder teams to resolve competing priorities; identify and drive clear plans of action
• Ability to roll up your sleeves, dive into details, and lead problem-solving efforts, including as a subject matter expert and hands-on individual contributor
• Report project status to a wide stakeholder base including internal/external customers and senior management, using technical and non-technical language
• Lead the transition of technology and capabilities from R&D to production
• Conduct risk analysis and develop mitigation plans to ensure on-time release and delivery of project deliverables
• Contribute to IonQ technology and product roadmaps
• Increase operational rigor and reduce waste by implementing the “right amount” of process without slowing down innovation
• Work with project, contracting, legal, finance and sales teams to develop proposals, technical volumes and financial reports; ensure regulatory, fiscal and IP compliance
• Drive quality control and devops processes such as standard work, CI/CD, version control, code style/reviews and automated testing
• Lead recurring and ad-hoc meetings, including coordinating and streamlining team calendars. Drive and track action items, aggregate across projects to reveal blockers and trends
• Accommodate occasional travel and evening/off-hours work to ensure customer success (need basis)

Staff Technical Program Manager – Quantum Applications

• Manage initial, recurring and ad-hoc meetings with customers, partners and prospects. Document and track action items, aggregate insights and report-out internally
• Increase operational rigor and reduce waste by implementing the “right amount” of process without slowing down innovation
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to originate new projects and ensure end-to-end success of activities ranging from one-off events, multi-party demos and multi-year collaborations
• Create and manage project timelines, milestones and deliverables; ensure resource alignment and drive project teams forward at a rapid pace
• Aggregate and report high-level insights across multiple projects to a wide stakeholder base including internal/external customers and senior management
• Communicate and translate complex topics – industrial use cases, quantum computing – across technical, business and general audiences
• Foster the transition of technology and capabilities from R&D to production
• Accommodate occasional travel and evening/off-hours work to ensure customer success (need-basis)

Technical Program Manager – Quantum Applications

Manager

• Develop IonQ’s long-term roadmap by leading a new fault-tolerant quantum applications team
• Devise and execute strategies for delivering fault-tolerant quantum solutions
• Build and grow a highly talented technical team
• Drive a culture of technical innovation and operational excellence
• Identify opportunities for developing end-to-end solutions
• Develop multi-year, long-term roadmaps and SWOT models
• Represent product superusers and offer feedback to engineering teams
• Work closely with Product Management, Sales, and Marketing teams

Senior Manager, Fault Tolerant Algorithms

Security Engineer

• Define and drive the strategy for the Quantum Finance and Quantum Security Architecture team, ensuring alignment with IonQ’s broader goals.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across hardware, software, HR, legal, compliance, risk, and recruiting to support execution of finance and security projects.
• Act as a key point of contact for external stakeholders, including financial institutions and industry partners.
• Manage project execution, ensuring milestones are delivered on time and to the highest standard.
• Develop and refine processes to enable efficient scaling of the team.
• Support business development efforts by identifying opportunities for collaboration with banks, insurers, and financial institutions.
• Represent the team in internal leadership meetings, ensuring clear communication of progress, challenges, and needs.
• Partner with technical leads to ensure delivery of quantum algorithms for finance use cases and cryptographic solutions integrating PQC and QKD.
• Prepare executive-level presentations, reports, and strategic documents to support decision-making.
• Build a foundation for future growth, with the potential to recruit and manage a team as the function expands.

Chief of Staff – Head of Strategy, Quantum Finance and Quantum Security Architecture

• Oversee high-impact IT programs in identity and access management (IAM), mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and artificial intelligence (AI)
• Lead projects end-to-end, including office expansions, application integrations, and complex infrastructure and networking upgrades
• Act as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, communicating progress, risks, and timelines
• Manage IT aspects of M&A, integrating IT systems, networks, and applications of acquired companies
• Define project scopes, create detailed project plans, manage resources, and track progress to deliver projects on time and within budget
• Define and implement an IT project intake process and manage the department's project portfolio
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies
• Manage relationships with external vendors and contractors and oversee project budgets
• Provide technical guidance to project teams to ensure alignment with corporate IT standards
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation, including technical requirements, project plans, and status reports
• Travel 2-3 times per quarter as required

Staff Technical Program Manager, Corporate IT

DevOps Engineer

• Be the first site reliability engineer at IonQ dedicated to the cloud team: create, support, and manage infrastructure, instrumentation, and tooling for product and engineering teams
• Provide reliable services to customers and act as a force multiplier for engineers by eliminating toil and scaling systems sustainably
• Increase performance, decrease latency, and ensure high uptime for IonQ's quantum computing platform
• Maintain monitoring and alerting systems deployed on Kubernetes (self-managed on-prem and in the cloud) and on Linux workstations
• Operate and debug Unix/Linux internals and network issues as needed
• Automate manual processes and implement tooling to improve operational efficiency
• Mentor junior engineers and drive best practices across the organization
• Participate in incident management, resolution, and post-incident analysis
• Work onsite or hybrid from College Park, MD or Bothell, WA, or fully remote within the US; travel limited up to 10%

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Platform

Architect

• Lead and perform architecture trade studies for fault-tolerant quantum computers.
• Develop models and perform estimations for the physical resources required for utility-scale quantum computing.
• Synthesize, run, and analyze simulations to inform architectural decisions.
• Prepare detailed technical reports, white papers, and proposals for both internal stakeholders and government contracts.
• Translate complex simulation results and architectural concepts into clear, persuasive narratives.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and research teams to define system requirements and performance targets.
• Contribute to the strategic vision and long-term technical roadmap for IonQ's quantum computers.
• Perform architecture trade studies and resource estimation and weave simulation results into reports and proposals.
• Travel up to 25%.

Senior Staff Architect, Utility-Scale Quantum Computing

Backend Engineer

• IonQ is developing the world's most powerful full-stack quantum computer based on trapped-ion technology
• Build the IonQ Cloud Platform connecting customers to quantum computers via APIs, tools, and partner clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Lead the design and implementation of compelling software experiences for quantum novices and experts
• Build, extend and maintain our cloud platform
• Mentor junior engineers
• Participate in on-call rotations
• Report to Sr Manager of Cloud Engineering and collaborate with Infrastructure Engineering, Application Development and Operations teams to provide highly available and fault-tolerant cloud services