Senior Manager, Cryptographic Engineering

Entangled Future; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in Geneva, Switzerland seeks a Senior Manager of Cryptographic Engineering to lead a team delivering post-quantum cryptography acceleration for HSM and network appliances. You will guide deep experts, manage delivery, and drive cross-functional coordination in a fast-growing quantum platform environment.

The role emphasizes people leadership, execution ownership, and strategic alignment with IonQ’s hardware and security portfolio, reporting to the Senior Manager, Hardware.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cryptographic engineering team delivering PQC hardware acceleration.
• Coordinate with hardware security product portfolio for HSM and network-appliance apps.
• Develop and mentor a team of 8+ engineers to meet project milestones and quality standards.

Skills

People management

Technical leadership

Hardware security

Job description

Senior Manager, Cryptographic Engineering at IonQ, Geneva, Switzerland. A senior-level full time position in the Quantum Platform - Network & Security team, listed under business operations.

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. Location: This role is based onsite in Geneva, Switzerland. Travel: Job ID: 1893 ID Quantique (IDQ), part of IonQ, is a global leader in quantum-safe communications. We provide solutions to protect governments, telecommunication infrastructures, and banking & financial institutions from the “harvest-now, decrypt-later” threat, delivering both terrestrial and space-based quantum-safe networks in live operation globally. The Role: 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

Requirements

• 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