Senior Manager of Compute Infrastructure Engineering, IonQ
$200.7-262.8k
+ Bonus and equity
Travel: Up to 15%
Office located in Boulder, CO
Quantum computing platform
Be an early applicant
Quantum computing platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$200.7-262.8k
+ Bonus and equity
Travel: Up to 15%
Office located in Boulder, CO
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex problems, transforming business, society, and the planet for the better.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience (untraditional backgrounds are encouraged to apply)
- 10+ years of engineering experience in compute infrastructure (containerized workloads, VMs, kubernetes), with a deep focus on distributed systems
- 5+ years of engineering management, with a proven history of balancing technical leadership with people management. You have grown teams, managed performance, and mentored engineers
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes (or other containerized control plane platforms) internals and container technologies. You don't just use K8s (or analogous control plane compute platform); you understand cloud-based scheduler, networking, and storage primitives
- Extensive experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS EC2/EKS, Azure AKS, or GCP GKE) and a solid grasp of hybrid networking
- 10+ years of engineering management experience
- 5+ years experience supporting 24/7 production environments across multiple continents
- Past experience owning vendor relationships and a $2MM+ budget
- Past experience working within compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171 or FedRAMP, or within govcloud
What the job involves
- In this role, you will hold the architectural vision and operational mandate for our compute services, powering our development environments and hosting software that operates our quantum systems. You will lead the team responsible for a complex hybrid environment, orchestrating workloads across on-premise quantum control systems and commercial clouds
- This is a leadership role grounded in deep technical reality. We are looking for a manager who has "been there and done that"; someone who understands Kubernetes internals and distributed systems well enough to challenge assumptions, guide architectural strategy, and mentor senior engineers, without needing to generate code yourself. You will focus on building the team, the roadmap, and the culture required to push past the limits of classical physics
- Own the architectural strategy and operational excellence of IonQ’s global compute platform, optimizing virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, and bare-metal resources for scale and reliability
- Lead, mentor, and grow a diverse team of infrastructure engineers. Establish clear career paths, foster a culture of "One Team," and scale the organization effectively over the next 6-12 months
- Design and manage a complex hybrid environment that seamlessly integrates on-premise systems with cloud resources
- Define SLIs/SLOs and oversee incident management. Serve as the escalation point for high-severity incidents, ensuring our "customer mindset" translates into high availability and security. Integrate the Compute platform with developer tooling to promote resilient engineering practices
- Manage the global compute budget and lead high-stakes negotiations with vendors and partners to ensure our capacity meets the demands of our roadmap
- Collaborate with quantum physicists, SREs, and software engineers to ensure our infrastructure supports the unique development environment necessary to build the world’s best quantum computers
Our take
IonQ is a quantum computing company, its current quantum computer, the IonQ Quantum Cloud is accessible through the cloud. An offshoot of the co-founder's 25 years of academic research in quantum information sciences, IonQ hopes to build the world's best quantum computers that can solve complex problems at a much faster rate than that of traditional computers.
Over the past few years, IonQ has partnered with several major technology companies, including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google to make its quantum computers more widely available. Most recently, it partnered with General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) to bring quantum solutions to government and defense sectors across the US.
IonQ has also acquired Entangled Networks to bolster its product offerings and also merged with a special purpose acquisition company to become a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "IONQ". The merger brought in substantial gross earnings that IonQ plans to utilize in order to accelerate its technology development and commercialization efforts.
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Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2020
$7m
SERIES B
Oct 2019
$55m
SERIES B
Total funding: $82m
Company HQ
College Park, MD
Leadership
Peter Chapman
(President & CEO)Previously the Director of Engineering for Amazon Prime, and the President and CEO of Media Arc and eMusic.
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