Senior Electrical Engineer - Testing

Description About IonQ:
IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense.

In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance.

Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before.

About Vector Atomic:

Vector Atomic, an IonQ company, is building quantum technology to transform navigation, timing, geophysical exploration, and telecommunications. Our team of engineers, scientists, software developers, and operations professionals works together to solve complex challenges and turn bold ideas into real-world solutions. We value collaboration, curiosity, and diverse perspectives, and we give every team member the opportunity to make an immediate impact while growing their skills.

If you're excited to work on breakthrough technology in a fast-paced, hands-on environment, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking an experienced test engineer to collaborate with our diverse group of physicists, electrical, mechanical, and optical engineers. Vector Atomics has the opportunity to disrupt industries with world-beating sensor performance. Success requires rapid development of specialized, cutting-edge electronics.  To support the development effort, an equally challenging effort is required to rapidly improve our verification procedures and approaches.  In this critical role, you'll be part of the technical team defining the direction of our hardware test strategy.

The right candidate will be comfortable not only executing test procedures, but also creating them.  They should be able to work effectively in the lab and assist with debugging challenging board-level issues with custom electronics.  They must lead by example and actively engage early-career engineers as mentors.

Location:

This role is based onsite at our office in Pleasanton, CA.Travel:
Up to 10%, domestic or international.

Requirements What You’ll DoBe a technical leader for a growing group that is tasked with both testing and debugging complex electronic circuits.  The circuits include a mix of technologies, including FPGAs, MCUs, mixed-signal, precision analog and photonics devices.  Collaborate with physicists, electrical, mechanical, software, and optical engineers to develop test procedures to verify electronic designs for next-generation quantum instruments. Collaborate with engineering and manufacturing to define DFT and DFM improvements.

Create test plans for performance, environmental, EMI and EMC testing.  Oversee and manage execution of these plans at external facilities, when necessary.  This role requires the ability to adapt test protocols on the fly to optimize results.

Use electronic test and measurement equipment to characterize and verify performance.

Define equipment for automated data systems for production systems.
Write test scripts for automated test systems for configuraiton…