Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We are seeking a Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer in our Broomfield, CO location. This role offers the opportunity to work on a hybrid schedule. Employees are expected to work at their assigned location and may work remotely up to 2 days per week, with approval.

🏢 About Quantinuum

Quantinuum is a leading quantum computing company delivering a full stack platform designed to make quantum computing deployable in real-world environments. With active engagements spanning pharmaceuticals, material science, financial services, government, industrial sectors, and leading academic and research institutions worldwide, we are helping organizations unlock the transformative potential of quantum computing.

🎯 The Role

Quantinuum is seeking a Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer to join our team in Broomfield, CO. This is a hybrid role with the opportunity to work remotely up to 2 days per week.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead reliability strategies for new technologies with limited historical data, evolving architectures, and unproven materials or processes.
• Develop reliability analyses at the system or product level, rolling up a combination of subassembly or component-level reliability test campaigns and study of published reliability results for mature products.
• Work with component and discipline subject matter experts to develop physics of failure models for new technologies.
• Create accelerated stress test plans, novel characterization methods, reliability metrics, and prediction methods appropriate for first-of-kind technologies.
• Collaborate with design teams to drive reliability-centric requirements and design decisions.
• Analyze early prototypes and test results to identify root causes, quantify reliability risks, and propose design or process improvements.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 8+ years of professional experience in reliability engineering roles, including experience with photonics, lasers, advanced materials, optical sensors, and/or optical systems.
• Candidates must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.
• Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status).

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, physics, or related field.
• Experience with quantitative reliability analysis of complex products or systems incorporating optical and electronic technologies.
• Experience participating in failure mode and effects criticality analysis (FMECA) efforts.
• Hands-on experience with reliability test equipment and environmental stress methods.
• Experience with reliability studies of new technologies and/or first-generation product introduction.
• Proficiency in physics of failure, statistical analysis, reliability prediction tools, and design-for-reliability methodologies.

🎁 Benefits

Salary: $161,000 - $218,000 a year
Bonus and Equity: Eligible
Benefits: Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match; paid time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays annually; paid parental leave; employee discount programs.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen. Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.