Senior Process Technician, Packaging

IonQ

3d•$79,040 - $120,640•Onsite

About The Position

IonQ is seeking a hands-on Senior Process Technician for their packaging cleanroom in College Park, Maryland. This role is crucial for building the quantum processing units (QPUs) at the heart of IonQ's systems. Over the first six months, the technician will be trained and qualified on a full packaging workflow, including precision cleaning, epoxy and assembly, die bonding, wire bonding, reflow, plasma cleaning, inspection, and testing. Once qualified, they will operate these processes on small, delicate, high-value components where precision is paramount.

Requirements

Roughly 2+ years of hands-on experience in a high-tech manufacturing, lab, or precision-assembly environment — semiconductor, photonics, RF, medical device, aerospace, or adjacent fields.
Demonstrated fine motor skill with small components. Professional microscope work, microelectronics rework, or comparable precision handcraft is essential.
The ability to read and precisely follow blueprints, specifications, and operating procedures — and the judgment to stop when the procedure and reality disagree.
Comfort spending roughly 80% of your day in the cleanroom, fully gowned, doing physical and sometimes repetitious work.
Reliability: teammates and hardware schedules depend on you being present and focused.
Clear written and verbal communication, and basic proficiency with Google Workspace or MS Office.

Nice To Haves

Experience personally operating and troubleshooting automated equipment such as wire bonders, die-attach/pick-and-place machines, reflow ovens, epoxy dispense systems, or metrology tools.
Experience in an ISO Class 6 (or cleaner) gowned cleanroom.
A 2-year technical degree or higher.
Experience with ERP, PLM, or MES systems (NetSuite, Duro, and Jira).
Experience with cryogenic or ultra-high-vacuum hardware.

Responsibilities

Execute released procedures to clean, assemble, bond, inspect, and test packaged ion traps and related quick-turn hardware.
Personally operate complex packaging equipment.
Handle small, fragile, expensive components under a microscope with steady hands and deliberate care.
Perform incoming inspection, record results, and complete travelers, work orders, and discrepancy reports accurately.
Collect process and test data and provide first-pass interpretation, flagging trends and anomalies to the engineering team.
Stop and escalate when reality deviates from the procedure.
Draft recipe or program adjustments within engineer-defined limits.
Support daily cleanroom operations: 5S, cleaning hardware and workspaces, restocking consumables, preparing parts for work orders.