Project Manager, Quantum Computing Systems

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the integrated project plan, including milestones, schedules, dependencies, risks, actions, budgets, and deliverables.
• Partner with technical leads to align engineering plans with contractual and business requirements, translating them into clear actions, owners, deadlines, and completion criteria.
• Work with the technical team to identify critical paths and help deliver on time and on budget.
• Coordinate execution across technical, operations, supply chain, IT, facilities, finance, legal, commercial, vendor, and customer teams.
• Lead project communications and meetings, provide clear status reporting, follow up on commitments, and elevate issues as needed.
• Coordinate site readiness, procurement, equipment delivery, installation, commissioning, acceptance, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, project work, and evidence of completion.
• Identify process gaps and help drive practical improvements through resolution.

• Bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 4+ years managing technical, engineering, hardware, infrastructure, or complex R&D projects.
• Experience owning schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to understand complex technical work well enough to identify dependencies, ask effective questions, and communicate project impacts.
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and facilitation skills.
• Experience with project-management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar systems.
• Ability to travel periodically.
• Experience delivering or commissioning complex scientific or industrial equipment.
• Experience in quantum technology, scientific instrumentation, aerospace, semiconductor equipment, or another complex hardware environment.
• Experience working with universities, government organizations, research institutions, or public-sector customers.
• Familiarity with facility readiness, equipment transport and delivery, IT infrastructure, procurement, and supplier management.
• Experience with contractual deliverables, acceptance criteria, change control, and customer reporting.
• Experience with inventory management.
• PMP certification or comparable project-management training.