Engineering Program Management Lead - 827

Entangled Future; Town of Malta (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantinuum is seeking an Engineering Program Management Lead to drive hardware R&D programs at a supplier site in Malta, NY. This full-time role requires leadership of schedules, budgets, and resources, coordinating diverse teams and communicating progress to leadership.

The position emphasizes risk management, schedule acceleration, and the ability to navigate early-stage, highly technical projects. A PMP and a strong STEM background are valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in technical program management.
• U.S. Person required: citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, asylum or refugee status.
• Security requirements disallow PRC or Russian nationals unless US citizen.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resources, and work plans for hardware R&D programs.
• Coordinate with multiple technical and operational teams.
• Lead regular status meetings, project reviews, and end-of-task retrospectives.
• Communicate strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress to leadership via reports, dashboards, and presentations.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Budget management

Risk assessment

Cross-functional leadership

PMP

Education

Bachelor’s degree

PMP certification

Job description

Engineering Program Management Lead - 827 at Quantinuum, US Malta, NY. A lead-level full time position in the Quantum Program Management team, listed under software engineering.

We are seeking an Engineering Program Management Lead to work on a supplier site in Malta, NY as a full time Quantinuum employee.

All applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions will be required to submit to a pre-employment drug test.

WE VALUE

• Master’s degree in a STEM field
• A background in quantum computing, optics and photonics, or experimental physics
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience in product development
• Experience seeing technology-based projects through the full life cycle including managing schedule, risk, and budget
• Prior experience on first-of-its-kind, early technology-based products or projects
• Resourcefulness and the ability to predict challenges to proactively head-off obstacles
• Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
• Ability to adapt tactics and strategies to meet diverse, early phase, and strongly technical projects
• Thorough understanding of risk and opportunity analysis and management processes related to program planning

Quantinuum is a leading quantum computing company delivering a full stack platform designed to make quantum computing deployable in real-world environments. With active engagements spanning pharmaceuticals, material science, financial services, government, industrial sectors, and leading academic and research institutions worldwide, we are helping organizations unlock the transformative potential of quantum computing.

Our global team of more than 800 employees includes many of the world's leading scientists, engineers, and researchers, with more than 70% of our technology team holding advanced degrees at the Master's or PhD level. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, Quantinuum operates across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverables on complex, multi-faceted hardware R&D programs
• Organize and coordinate with multiple technical and operational teams
• Lead regular status meetings, project reviews, and end-of-task retrospectives
• Ensure timely and effective communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress between technical teams, partners, product and program management, and leadership through reports, dashboards, and presentations
• Identify opportunities to accelerate schedule or develop needed technologies
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree minimum
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in technical program management
• Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
• Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.