Senior Manager of Specialty Engineering - 1093

Quantinuum • Broomfield, CO

15d • $168,000 - $227,000

About The Position

Quantinuum is seeking a Senior Manager of Specialty Engineering in Broomfield, Colorado, to lead Quality Engineering, Materials and Process Engineering, and subsystem Reliability Engineering for complex quantum computing hardware. The leader will build and develop the people, methods, laboratories, data systems, and technical standards needed to improve product quality, material and process robustness, and system reliability throughout the product lifecycle.

The role owns the hardware Quality Management System (QMS) strategy, architecture, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement, as well as the hardware failure-analysis capability. It guides the selection, development, qualification, approval, and change control of materials and special processes, and establishes related specifications, controls, supplier requirements, and technical standards.

The Senior Manager partners with engineering, manufacturing, Supplier Quality, Supply Chain, R&D, and product teams to embed quality and reliability in daily work and early product and system decisions. The role also provides senior leaders with concise technical and operational updates and establishes metrics for quality, process capability, supplier performance, reliability, and QMS health.

The position is bonus- and equity-eligible. The stated annual base pay range is $168,000–$227,000; actual compensation may vary based on skills, education, experience, and other qualifications. Applicants for safety-sensitive positions must submit to a pre-employment drug test. Contractual requirements make this position available to U.S. Persons as defined in the posting. Additional national-security restrictions apply to candidates who are nationals of the People's Republic of China or Russia, unless they are also U.S. citizens.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree minimum required.
• At least 8 years of experience in quality, reliability, materials and process, product, systems, or manufacturing engineering for complex hardware.
• At least 8 years of experience with QMS processes, non-conformance, root cause analysis, CAPA, risk management, and verification of corrective-action effectiveness.
• At least 5 years of experience leading technical teams, including direct people leadership and capability development.
• At least 5 years of experience partnering with R&D and product teams to mature technology from prototype through qualification and production readiness.
• Must be a U.S. Person as defined in the posting: a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or a worker granted asylum or refugee status.
• Candidates who are nationals of the People's Republic of China or Russia must also be U.S. citizens due to national-security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government.

Nice To Haves

• Master's or PhD in Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience building or significantly improving specialty engineering functions, technical centers of excellence, or cross-functional engineering systems.
• Ability to lead technically ambiguous investigations, integrate evidence across disciplines, and make clear risk-based recommendations.
• Experience developing engineers, setting technical standards, and balancing strategic capability building with urgent program execution.
• Leadership experience spanning at least two of Quality Engineering, Materials and Process Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Supplier Quality, Failure Analysis, or Systems Engineering.
• Experience with low-volume, high-complexity hardware in quantum, aerospace, semiconductor, photonics, precision instrumentation, medical device, or similarly rigorous environments.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 or comparable quality-system frameworks and experience translating requirements into practical engineering controls.
• Experience with precision mechanical assemblies, optics and photonics, electronics, vacuum systems, cryogenic systems, cleanrooms, and contamination-sensitive hardware.
• Experience establishing failure analysis laboratories or external laboratory networks and applying analytical techniques such as SEM/EDS, XPS, FTIR, microscopy, metrology, leak detection, or contamination analysis.
• Experience with reliability planning, FMEA/FMECA, accelerated testing, reliability growth, FRACAS, or field-data analysis.
• Six Sigma, ASQ, reliability, quality-auditor, or related professional certification.
• Excellent judgment, communication, organizational leadership, and cross-functional influence.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, and scale the Quality Engineering, Materials and Process Engineering, and Reliability Engineering disciplines.
• Define capability roadmaps, competency models, technical standards, career development expectations, hiring plans, and succession depth for each discipline.
• Coach engineers and technical leaders, establish communities of practice, and translate lessons learned into repeatable organizational capability.
• Plan and prioritize specialist resources across technology development, product realization, production, supplier, and sustaining needs.
• Own the strategy, architecture, implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of the hardware QMS.
• Establish QMS controls for design and development, risk management, inspection and acceptance, product traceability, non-conformance, supplier quality, calibration, training, audits, CAPA, and management review.
• Own hardware failure analysis, including issue triage, containment, investigation strategy, analytical methods, root-cause determination, reporting, and organizational learning.
• Partner with functional leaders to embed quality processes in daily engineering and manufacturing work.
• Guide selection, development, qualification, approval, and change control of materials and special processes used in precision mechanical, optical, photonic, electrical, vacuum, and cryogenic hardware.
• Establish material and process specifications, approved materials and process lists, qualification plans, process controls, supplier requirements, and technical standards.
• Partner with Supplier Quality and Supply Chain to translate materials, process, quality, and reliability requirements into supplier qualification, surveillance, corrective-action, and readiness activities.
• Serve as a technical partner in architecture trades, technology maturation, design reviews, risk reviews, and product realization decisions for future systems.
• Bring quality, reliability, materials, process, supplier, testability, inspectability, maintainability, and producibility considerations into early technology and system decisions.
• Provide senior leadership with concise technical and operational updates, including decisions needed, risks, tradeoffs, and recovery plans.
• Establish and review metrics for yield, defects, escapes, rework, CAPA aging and effectiveness, process capability, supplier quality, reliability, failure recurrence, and QMS health.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and 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