Engineering Operations Lead

Entangled Future; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

QuEra Computing in Boston, MA is seeking an Engineering Operations Lead to unify planning and delivery across software, hardware, and QPU programs. This hands-on IC role supports the operating rhythm and removes blockers for engineering leaders.

Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, you will coordinate weekly reviews, track milestones, and maintain a current view of active initiatives, risks, and dependencies.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating complex engineering programs and roadmaps.
• Ability to manage dependencies, risks, and delivery status across multiple teams.
• Strong communication and meeting facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support engineering planning and execution with cadence, agendas, and follow-up.
• Coordinate weekly execution and roadmap reviews, capture decisions and actions.

Skills

Planning & coordination

Cross-team collaboration

Jira & Confluence

Engineering operations

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Engineering Operations Lead at QuEra Computing, Boston, MA, USA. A lead-level full time position in the QPU Hardware Engineering team, listed under business operations.

QuEra is seeking an Engineering Operations Lead to support day-to-day execution across software, hardware, test infrastructure, and QPU programs, helping make that work more predictable, visible, and efficient. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, this person will support the operating rhythm around engineering: planning meetings, cross-team dependency tracking, Jira and Confluence hygiene, release and integration coordination, operational metrics, and follow-up on decisions and action items. The role frees engineering leaders and senior technical staff to spend more time on architecture, technical decisions, team development, and delivery. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role and a strong opportunity to learn how a complex hardware/software engineering organization operates. You will work closely with engineering and functional leaders, who remain accountable for priorities, staffing and resource allocation, architecture, technical acceptance criteria, technical risk acceptance, and release or machine go/no-go decisions. Your job is to keep the supporting structure running smoothly so those teams can work together effectively. What you will do: Support engineering planning and execution Help run a consistent planning and review cadence across software, hardware, QPU programs, and test and engineering infrastructure, including scheduling, agendas, and follow-up. Work with leaders and technical owners to keep the engineering plan current, with named owners, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria for each initiative. Maintain a clear, up-to-date view of active initiatives, planned work, key dependencies, risks, and delivery status. Coordinate and take notes for weekly execution reviews, roadmap reviews, release-readiness reviews, and milestone retrospectives. Flag priority or resource conflicts as you spot them and bring them to the appropriate leader. Track decisions and action items and follow up with owners until they are closed. Support Jira,