Staff Product Manager - Production Systems

IonQ•College Park, MD

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum company delivering solutions to solve the world’s most complex problems. IonQ’s newest generation quantum computers, IonQ Tempo and IonQ Forte Enterprise, are the latest in cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners such as Amazon Web Services, AstraZeneca, and NVIDIA achieve 20x performance results. The company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance in 2025. The company is accelerating its technology roadmap and intends to deliver the world’s most powerful quantum computers with 2 million qubits by 2030 to accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. IonQ’s advancements in quantum networking position the company as a leader in building the quantum internet. We are seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager to own a part of the computing engine at the heart of IonQ's quantum platform. This role spans the full lifecycle of quantum computation: from how circuits are compiled and optimized, orchestrating and scheduling complex workloads, and connecting them to our growing fleet of quantum processors deployed in cloud regions, national laboratories, and enterprise data centers worldwide. IonQ's computing platform is at a critical inflection point, rapidly expanding as we scale. We’re rewriting, refactoring, or building whole new services up and down our stack to support our growing needs. Existing systems and datastores are being unified and matured, prepared for hybrid deployments into cloud + on-premise systems, and we’re integrating with new kinds of IT environments with rigorous requirements and complex needs. Every part of this space is a foundational, load-bearing system—and needs a strong product leader to guide their growth. This is going to be a significant challenge both in scope and in skill. Your work will span compiler interface contracts to fleet operations systems and everything in-between. You’re comfortable with ambiguous inputs, you aren’t intimidated by things you haven’t studied before, and you’re looking for a steep challenge. If you think this all sounds thrilling and not daunting: this role will be deeply rewarding.

Requirements

7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years leading infrastructure, platform, or developer tools products where the customer is an engineer or technical operator.
A demonstrated technical acumen: comfortable and fluent in architecture discussions, systems design, and negotiating service boundaries and interface contracts with engineering teams.
Experience working on foundational platform systems—the kind that other teams build on top of—where getting the abstraction right the first time is a critical concern.
A track record as a self-starting operator who builds their own context, identifies the highest-leverage problems, and drives outcomes without waiting for direction.

Nice To Haves

Experience with HPC, scientific computing, or job scheduling environments (Slurm, PBS, or similar)
Experience with hybrid cloud and on-premise deployment models, including the operational realities of running software in a customer's data center
Experience with compilers, build systems, or developer toolchains
Experience with fleet management, service registries, or distributed infrastructure control planes
An understanding of hardware-software interfaces and the product challenges of abstracting over evolving hardware generations
A strong bias for action and a comfort level with defining product direction in spaces where the technology and market are being invented simultaneously

Responsibilities

Build a deep, technical understanding of IonQ's platform systems from job submission APIs to the backend infrastructure that puts those instructions on to the QPUs themselves.
Own the product vision and roadmap for a portion of our computing platform layer—things like our compilation services, simulators, workflow orchestrators, and more.
Define interface contracts and service boundaries during a period of active architectural change, making smart choices about which systems to build to stand the test of time, and which can be throwaway.
Partner with engineering teams up and down the stack to scope, sequence, ship, and maintain foundational platform capabilities.
Help us grow our hybrid deployment roadmap, working across regional cloud deployments, on-premise edge appliances, and integrated HPC facilities, ensuring our products works as well inside a national laboratory as it does in a hyperscale cloud.
Navigate a complex competitive and standards landscape, emerging interoperability standards, and nascent partner integration patterns to inform strategic positioning and technical decisions.

Benefits

Our benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, matching 401K, unlimited PTO and paid holidays, parental/adoption leave, legal insurance, and a home technology stipend.
Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided when a candidate receives an offer of employment.

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