Engineering Program Management Lead - 827

Quantinuum; United States; On-site; USD 164,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work schedule

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match

Equity & retirement savings plan

Paid holidays & vacation + sick time

Paid parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Quantinuum is seeking a seasoned Technical Program Manager to lead complex hardware R&D programs in the United States. You will manage schedules, budgets, and resources, coordinating with diverse technical and operations teams to drive progress and deliverables.

You will lead status meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, and ensure timely communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress to leadership via dashboards and reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of technical program management experience.
• U.S. Person required due to contractual requirements.
• U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or green card holder; asylum/refugee status allowed.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of schedules, budgets, resources, and work plans for hardware R&D programs.
• Coordinate with multiple technical and operational teams.
• Lead regular status meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Communicate strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress through reports and dashboards.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate schedules or develop needed technologies.

Skills

Technical program management

Cross-functional leadership

Schedule & budget management

Communication & reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree in STEM

Job description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead development of and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverableson 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 communicationof strategy, scope changes, risks, and progressbetween technical teams, partners, product and program management, and leadership through reports, dashboards, and presentations
• Identify opportunities to accelerate schedule or develop needed technologies

YOU MUST HAVE:

• 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.

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

$164,000 - $205,000 a year

Quantinuum is the world leader in quantum computing. The company’s quantum systems deliver the highest performance across all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum’s over 650 employees, including 400+ scientists and engineers, across the US, UK, Germany, and Japan, are driving the quantum computing revolution.

By uniting best-in-class software with high-fidelity hardware, our integrated full-stack approach is accelerating the path to practical quantum computing and scaling its impact across multiple industries.

By joining Quantinuum, you’ll be at the forefront of this transformative revolution, shaping the future of quantum computing, pushing the limits of technology, and making the impossible possible.

What’s in it for you?

A competitive salary and innovative, game-changing work

Flexible work schedule

Employer subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) match for student loan repayment benefit

Equity, 401k retirement savings plan + 12 Paid holidays and generous vacation + sick time

Paid parental leave

Employee discounts

Quantinuum is an equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status. Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis, there is no application deadline for this position.