Senior Technical Programme Manager, Quantum Systems Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Technical Programme Manager to join the Quantum Systems Infrastructure (QSI) team at IonQ's Oxford office. QSI builds and runs the platform our next-generation quantum computers are built, tested, released and operated on, from bare metal in the lab to cloud, working across both Oxford and the US.

🏢 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.

🎯 The Role

We are looking for a Technical Programme Manager to join the Quantum Systems Infrastructure (QSI) team at IonQ's Oxford office. QSI builds and runs the platform our next-generation quantum computers are built, tested, released and operated on, from bare metal in the lab to cloud, working across both Oxford and the US.

Your mission is to run the machinery that keeps QSI’s portfolio visible, planned and unblocked so engineers can engineer, leaders can lead, and the business always knows what is changing and why it matters. You will work very closely with the Technical Programme Managers in the Software and Science teams, ensuring our processes and workflows complement and integrate with their work, rather than duplicating effort.

We run a centralised PMO operating model at IonQ which you will be a core part of though on a day to day basis you will work alongside the QSI team. As part of this model, this role will not make technical decisions, own engineering headcount, or define product but it will make the programme around those things run.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Owning programme execution across QSI’s delivery streams: one planning rhythm, one backlog discipline, ensuring dependencies and risks surfaced early and chased to resolution.
• Running the roadmap-to-delivery link: keeping the roadmap, Jira and reality agreeing with each other, and making slippage visible early.
• Owning the programme ceremonies and the design of the workflows behind them (day-to-day stand-ups are run by the engineering managers).
• Working hand-in-hand with the Software and Science TPMs: shared or integrated processes wherever teams interact, and no duplicated ceremonies, boards or reporting.
• Coordinating across teams - Continuing Engineering (US), the PMO, product and science teams - serving as QSI’s cross-functional programme liaison.
• Establishing programme cadences and reporting (changelogs, demos, leadership summaries etc) in plain English that non-infrastructure stakeholders can read and trust.
• Running the intake and triage process so requests reach the right stream with the right priority, without engineers being interrupt-driven.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience harmonising ways of working across sibling teams or departments, integrating processes rather than multiplying them.
• Strong, plain-English communication and the ability to make infrastructure work legible to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously across sites and time zones in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• A chase-without-nagging, escalate-without-drama working style, and a clear sense of the difference between a risk and a noise.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Background in hardware-adjacent software (labs, manufacturing, robotics, scientific instruments).
• Exposure to regulated or government-customer delivery.
• Agile coaching / scrum mastery experience.
• Working knowledge of quantum computing concepts.

🎁 Benefits

Be part of a team that’s shaping the future of quantum. We offer more than just a role, you’ll join a world class community of scientists, engineers and innovators working to unlock the full potential of quantum computing.

We offer a range of benefits, including opportunities to further your career alongside industry leaders, a competitive salary with IonQ stock options, an annual performance bonus, generous annual leave, flexible hybrid working, private medical and dental insurance for you and your family, and much more.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

The position you are applying for will require access to technology that is subject to U.S. export control and government contract restrictions. Employment with IonQ is contingent on either verifying “U.S. Person” (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum) status for export controls and government contracts work, obtaining any necessary license, and/or confirming the availability of a license exception under U.S. export controls. Please note that in the absence of confirming you are a U.S. Person for export control and government contracts work purposes, IonQ may choose not to apply for a license or decline to use a license exception (if available) for you to access export-controlled technology that may require authorization, and similarly, you may not qualify for government contracts work that requires U.S. Persons, and IonQ may decline to proceed with your application on those bases alone. Accordingly, we will have some additional questions regarding your immigration status that will be used for export control and compliance purposes, and the answers will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law.