Staff Technical Programme Manager, Quantum Benchmarking Initiative

Entangled Future; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IonQ in College Park, Maryland, is seeking a Staff Technical Programme Manager to lead the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative within the Architecture team. This full-time role connects internal quantum computer development with the DARPA program, guiding cross-functional scientists and engineers across control, chip and error correction design, and validation activities.

The position sits in the Compute - PMO group, reporting to the Architecture organization, and requires strong program management

Job description

Staff Technical Programme Manager, Quantum Benchmarking Initiative at IonQ, College Park, Maryland, United States. A lead-level full time position in the Compute - PMO team, listed under business operations.

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. Role Overview Role: IonQ is working with DARPA, through the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, to show when a utility scale, fault tolerant quantum computer can be delivered, with a target early in the next decade. Around forty scientists and engineers from national laboratories examine that plan in depth, and successive generations of our systems are verified and validated against it. It is one of the most consequential technology programs in the industry, and the program manager at its centre connects what we are building today with everything we plan to build next. This role sits in our Architecture team in College Park, Maryland, and is the connection between internal quantum computer development at IonQ and the initiative. Conversations move from near term quantum control, through chip and error correction code design, to quantum error correction on futur