HIL Test Architect & Team Lead

Wwshemi; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Test Manager to build and lead the team owning our hardware test infrastructure—the systems that validate control software before touching a real quantum system.

You will define and build representative QA and staging systems, manage maintenance and upgrades, and shape test strategy across simulation and real hardware. This is a build-from-scratch role with budget and rack space allocated, starting with one engineer and growing the team.

Qualifications

• Experience leading test infrastructure for software validated against real hardware.
• Strong CI/CD experience and automation-first mindset.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams in a fast-moving tech environment.

Responsibilities

• Own the hardware test estate end-to-end and define how it is used.
• Hire, develop and lead a small team across QA and test infra.
• Define the test-system architecture and ensure alignment with manufacturing.
• Shape testing strategy: simulate vs real hardware and gate releases.
• Drive automation for provisioning, firmware flashing, recovery and configuration as code.

Skills

CI/CD

Python

Test automation

Hardware-in-the-loop

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

IonQ, Inc. is seeking a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) Test Manager to build and lead the team owning our hardware test infrastructure—the systems that validate control software before touching a real quantum system.

You will define and build representative QA and staging systems, manage maintenance and upgrades, and shape test strategy across simulation and real hardware. This is a build-from-scratch role with budget and rack space allocated, starting with one engineer and growing the team.