Packaging Process Engineer (Cleanroom) for Quantum Hardware

IonQ; College Park, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ, Inc. in College Park, MD is seeking a hands-on Process Engineer, Packaging to keep our cleanroom production moving.

You will spend most of your day operating and improving the equipment used to build our quantum processing units (QPU). This role offers the chance to work directly with technicians and engineers to solve problems, create robust recipes, and train operators while advancing hardware capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or physical sciences.
• 1-2 years professional experience operating complex automated equipment in a production, development, or laboratory environment.
• Evidence that you have diagnosed equipment or process problems, implemented fixes, and verified results.
• A genuine preference for working at the equipment and with physical hardware for most of the day.
• The ability to learn unfamiliar equipment and processes quickly while working safely and carefully.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to train operators with different levels of technical experience.
• The ability to work onsite in College Park five days per week during training and initial ramp-up.
• The ability to work for extended periods in full cleanroom gowning.

Responsibilities

• Provide real-time sustaining engineering support in the cleanroom so QPU builds, technician work, and critical equipment stay on track.
• Personally operate, program, troubleshoot, and improve complex packaging equipment, with particular emphasis on wire bonding and die/flip-chip bonding.
• Create, validate, release, and maintain equipment recipes and process programs; use data and disciplined experimentation to establish stable operating windows.
• Investigate equipment faults, process excursions, and product failures; identify root causes, implement corrective actions, and verify that the fix is effective.
• Train and qualify operators on packaging equipment and processes, and translate practical learning into clear work instructions, travelers, and operating guidance.
• Improve existing packaging processes with respect to yield, throughput, repeatability, uptime, and capability.
• Support hands-on prototype and new-product builds from component preparation through assembly, inspection, characterization, and release.
• Handle fragile, high-value components carefully and model excellent cleanroom discipline during every build.
• Collaborate across packaging, manufacturing, QPU design, fabrication, quality, test, and external suppliers to remove blockers and deliver hardware.

Skills

Operate automated equipment

Learn unfamiliar equipment

Train operators

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or physical sciences

Tools

wire bonding equipment

die bonding equipment

optical packaging equipment

Job description

IonQ, Inc. in College Park, MD is seeking a hands-on Process Engineer, Packaging to keep our cleanroom production moving.

You will spend most of your day operating and improving the equipment used to build our quantum processing units (QPU). This role offers the chance to work directly with technicians and engineers to solve problems, create robust recipes, and train operators while advancing hardware capabilities.