Technical Programme Manager, System Delivery

About the role

About IonQ:

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

Role Overview

Role:

We are looking for a Technical Programme Manager to lead the delivery of IonQ's quantum computing systems to customer sites across Europe and Asia. You will own deployment and commissioning end to end, from early planning and export through to installation, commissioning and customer handover.

You will work across engineering, science, global mobility, legal and trade compliance, supply chain, logistics, facilities, security and customer teams. We are growing quickly and the support functions a programme manager finds at a larger company are still being built here, so the role suits someone who takes ownership, designs the process where none exists, and sweats the detail themselves.

Responsibilities:

In this position, you will plan and run quantum system deployments at customer sites across Europe and Asia, with the first installations already in view.

You will have the opportunity to define how delivery works at IonQ rather than inherit it, working alongside the manufacturing and deployment programme based in Bothell.

Key responsibilities include:

- Lead planning and execution of quantum system deployment and commissioning at customer sites across Europe and Asia.

- Run export, import and customs work with legal, trade compliance and logistics teams for highly specialised equipment.

- Coordinate global mobility for deploying teams, covering visas, work authorisation, travel and field assignment readiness.

- Drive site readiness with facilities, security, networking and customer stakeholders, and coordinate staffing, installation sequencing and vendors onsite.

- Track risk and critical path, and resolve issues across internal teams, vendors and customers.

Requirements:

To be successful, you will come from a hardware background, with five or more years running technical programmes or deployments of complex hardware systems, and a technical degree or equivalent experience. You will have moved equipment and people across borders before, so export, customs and visas are familiar ground rather than a surprise. You will be comfortable holding a critical path across teams that do not report to you, and able to explain technical status clearly to engineers, executives and customers alike. The role involves travel of around 10% to 20%, depending on deployment schedules.