Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer - 1073

Quantinuum • Broomfield, CO

26d • $161,000 - $218,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Quantinuum is seeking a Lead/Principal Reliability Engineer in Broomfield, Colorado. The role offers a hybrid schedule: employees are expected to work at their assigned location and may work remotely up to two days per week with approval. The engineer will lead reliability strategy and analysis for new technologies with limited historical data, evolving architectures, and unproven materials or processes, including optical and photonic technologies, extreme-high-vacuum components, and cryogenic cooling systems. The position works closely with subject matter experts and design teams to develop failure models, tests, metrics, predictions, and reliability-centered design decisions. Applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions must submit to a pre-employment drug test.

Quantinuum is a quantum computing company that develops a full-stack platform for real-world applications. It has more than 800 employees and operates across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore. The company describes its rewards package as supporting professional growth, well-being, and long-term success, and highlights competitive compensation, flexible work arrangements, and opportunities to work on groundbreaking technology.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• At least 8 years of professional experience in reliability engineering roles, or 6 years with a master’s degree or 5 years with a Ph.D.
• Experience must include reliability of products or systems incorporating one or more of these technology areas: photonics, lasers, advanced materials, optical sensors, or optical systems.
• Must not be a People’s Republic of China national or Russian national unless also a U.S. citizen, due to U.S. Government national security requirements.
• Must be a U.S. Person, defined as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, physics, or a related field; an advanced degree is preferred.
• Experience with quantitative reliability analysis of complex products or systems incorporating optical and electronic technologies, producing artifacts such as MTBF, failure rate, and probability of mission success.
• Experience participating in FMECA efforts for complex products or systems incorporating optical and electronic technologies.
• Hands-on experience with reliability test equipment, environmental stress methods, highly accelerated life and stress testing, and data analysis.
• Experience with reliability studies of new technologies and/or first-generation product introduction.
• Proficiency in physics of failure, statistical analysis, reliability prediction tools, and design-for-reliability methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead reliability strategies for new technologies with limited historical data, evolving architectures, and unproven materials or processes, including optical and photonic technologies, extreme-high-vacuum components, and cryogenic cooling systems.
• Develop system- or product-level reliability analyses by combining subassembly or component-level reliability test campaigns with published reliability results for mature products.
• Work with component and discipline subject matter experts to develop physics-of-failure models for new technologies.
• Create accelerated stress test plans, novel characterization methods, reliability metrics, and prediction methods for first-of-kind technologies.
• Collaborate with design teams on reliability-centered requirements and design decisions, including derating, margin analysis, redundancy strategies, and component selection.
• Analyze early prototypes and test results to identify root causes, quantify reliability risks, and propose design or process improvements.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology.
• Flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance.
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity opportunities.
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays annually.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discount programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior