Senior Director, Government Quantum Hardware Strategy

Colorado Psychiatric; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 215,000 - 289,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Quantinuum seeks a Senior Director, U.S. Government Quantum Hardware Strategy in Broomfield, CO. The role leads U.S.

government strategy for quantum hardware across DOE, NIST, DoD, and federal labs, coordinating engineering, product, manufacturing, and contracts to move hardware programs from concept to deployment. Responsibilities include shaping roadmaps, managing a multi‑year portfolio, and engaging with government agencies to accelerate hardware maturation and adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• 12+ years of post-education experience in quantum computing, advanced computing, semiconductor systems, electronics, cryogenics, hardware engineering, technical strategy, product leadership, or government program development.
• Ability and willingness to travel within the United States as business needs require.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a U.S.-focused quantum hardware strategy informed by federal mission priorities, product plans, hardware roadmaps, agency research agendas, laboratory capabilities, acquisition pathways, and competitive dynamics.
• Translate enterprise and Compute Products priorities into a portfolio of hardware engagements with clear technical hypotheses, architecture targets, milestones, decision gates, resource needs, and expected business impact.
• Prioritize opportunities across DOE, NIST, DoD, the military services, national and defense laboratories, and other federal organizations to diversify the portfolio beyond a single-agency focus.
• Establish portfolio KPIs covering hardware performance, reliability, manufacturability, integration readiness, benchmark adoption, external funding leverage, demonstration progress, and pathways to procurement or deployment.
• Map priority quantum hardware gaps to differentiated capabilities across DOE and DoD laboratories, NIST, federally funded research centers, university partners, user facilities, and specialized test and fabrication infrastructure.
• Lead engagements with government technical leaders, program offices, research laboratories, test organizations, acquisition stakeholders, standards bodies, and mission owners.
• Shape joint hardware programs covering processor architecture, qubit modalities, control systems, cryogenics, packaging, interconnects, calibration, error characterization, modularity, scalability, reliability, and hybrid quantum‑classical integration.
• Develop joint technical scopes, hardware requirements, interface definitions, test plans, milestone structures, intellectual‑property positions, and transition pathways.
• Structure collaborations through appropriate federal research, technology‑transfer, contracting, and acquisition mechanisms in coordination with Legal, Contracts, Finance, Security, Export Control, and Intellectual Property teams.
• Identify and pursue federal funding, test access, facilities, technical expertise, and co‑development opportunities that accelerate hardware maturation from prototype through mission‑relevant demonstration.
• Maintain a qualified pipeline of government quantum hardware initiatives and concentrate resources on opportunities with the strongest technical differentiation and strategic value.
• Define government‑relevant hardware performance, reliability, scalability, and system‑level validation priorities for quantum computing platforms.
• Translate agency and mission needs into measurable hardware requirements, test protocols, acceptance criteria, demonstration plans, and evidence packages.
• Drive adoption of priority quantum hardware benchmarks across DOE, NIST, DoD, and associated laboratories by developing and executing an influence strategy that aligns technical evidence, government stakeholders, laboratory champions, standards activity, and communications.
• Build coalitions across government, laboratories, industry, and academia to improve benchmark consistency, reproducibility, transparency, and relevance to real hardware progress.
• Use benchmark and test results to influence hardware roadmaps, investment decisions, program requirements, solicitations, and acquisition strategies.
• Design technical exchanges, hardware reviews, workshops, and demonstration forums that surface critical capability gaps and establish shared development priorities.
• Create executive narratives, technical briefs, and decision packages that communicate hardware differentiation, readiness, mission relevance, and U.S. strategic impact.

Skills

Quantum hardware

Government program development

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree or PhD (preferred)

Job description

Quantinuum seeks a Senior Director, U.S. Government Quantum Hardware Strategy in Broomfield, CO. The role leads U.S.

government strategy for quantum hardware across DOE, NIST, DoD, and federal labs, coordinating engineering, product, manufacturing, and contracts to move hardware programs from concept to deployment. Responsibilities include shaping roadmaps, managing a multi‑year portfolio, and engaging with government agencies to accelerate hardware maturation and adoption.