Senior Manager, Optical Systems Test

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of optical and mechanical engineers to deliver customer systems in support of company level objectives
• Identify and drive design changes in current and future system to improve optical system design and validation process
• Identify opportunities for test automation through tooling, SW, etc.
• Manage multiple projects, priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Collaborate and communicate with internal and external customers, engineers, physicists, as well as engineering and operations leadership
• Work with cross-functional leadership to create, influence, and align on department and organizational level goals and objectives
• Manage costs, and schedules across our operations program
• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering and scientific talent
• Lead root cause investigations to resolve highly complex or unique situations that impact system delivery or operations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering, Physics, or related field
• 8+ years of hands-on technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience managing and mentoring engineers, physicists or scientists ranging from early career to senior
• Experience taking a complex product through the entire design lifecycle
• Experience with free space optics and laser systems
• Experience identifying and driving corrective actions for design issues found in production systems
• Strong written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 15+ years of technical leadership and people management experience
• Experience delivering complex products, including hardware and software, to customers
• Direct experience in complex system integration, especially in Validation and Verification
• Experience integrating electronics and software
• Prior experience managing managers
• Prior experience with quantum computing
• Experience with modern scripting languages like Python or Go

About the Company

IonQ, Inc. is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier, delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security.