Senior Manager, Cryptographic Engineering

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.  

We are looking for a Senior Manager reporting to the Senior Manager, Hardware, to lead the people and the execution of our cryptographic engineering team. This team builds post-quantum cryptography (PQC) hardware acceleration for our quantum-safe product portfolio, targeting hardware security module (HSM) and network-appliance applications. This is a people-leadership and delivery role: you will manage and develop a team of 8+ highly specialised engineers, own programme execution, and partner closely with the programme’s senior technical leadership, who own the architecture and technical direction. It is an opportunity to lead exceptional people on a strategic security product line at one of the few companies where quantum-safe security is the core business.

We are looking for a candidate with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent) and at least ten years in the development of complex hardware, embedded or security products, including five or more years of direct people management of engineering teams that shipped certified products. You have enough technical depth in digital hardware, embedded software or security engineering to earn the respect of deep specialists, to follow their trade-offs and to ask the right questions; exposure to cryptography or security products is a strong advantage.

You hire well and have grown senior specialists; you give honest feedback, delegate real ownership, and build teams people want to stay in. You run execution with rigour (planning, risk, reporting) without drowning engineers in process, and you communicate crisply with executives, partners and customers. Fluency in English is required; French or German is an advantage.

• →Proven engineering people manager who has built and led specialist teams to shipped hardware or security products
• →Execution owner with the technical credibility to lead deep experts, while leaving technical direction to the programme’s senior technical leadership

You lead through trust, clarity and service to the team rather than hierarchy. You take pride in the growth of your people and the predictability of your delivery, you protect deep work and a high-trust culture, and you are motivated by making a team of exceptional specialists perform as more than the sum of its parts.