Lead Manufacturing Engineer — Hardware Production Readiness

Quantinuum; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 148,000 - 199,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work options

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Equity opportunities

Paid holidays

Job summary

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to guide manufacturing activities for a complex quantum hardware program. You will coordinate with subsystem engineering, quality, supply chain, and production leadership to ensure manufacturability and readiness from development through production.

The role emphasizes translating complex requirements into executable manufacturing processes, leading risk mitigation, and delivering scalable production plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree minimum.
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering or related discipline with development-to-production experience.
• 3+ years CAD experience developing/reviewing solid models for tooling and fixtures.
• U.S. Person per contractual requirements (citizen, PR, or green card).
• Due to U.S. government security requirements, not a PRC or Russian national unless U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Lead the manufacturing engineering interface across a full hardware program with cross-subsystem coordination.
• Drive manufacturing readiness strategy including producibility, process development, validation, and transition to production.
• Ensure designs and processes align with program objectives across engineering, quality, and supply chain.
• Lead root cause analysis and continuous improvement to resolve manufacturing, quality, and production issues.
• Develop and maintain manufacturing processes, work instructions, and inspection plans.
• Support prototype to production manufacturing readiness and tooling development.
• Monitor yield, cycle time, defects, and capacity with data-driven improvements.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

DFM/DFx

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

CAD (3D modeling)

Job description

Quantinuum in Broomfield, CO is seeking a Lead Manufacturing Engineer to guide manufacturing activities for a complex quantum hardware program. You will coordinate with subsystem engineering, quality, supply chain, and production leadership to ensure manufacturability and readiness from development through production.

The role emphasizes translating complex requirements into executable manufacturing processes, leading risk mitigation, and delivering scalable production plans.