qubitsok.com
Cut Noise. Work Quantum.
Americas, United States, Broomfield
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Posted 174 days ago
🏢 Quantinuum
Role Type
Role Focus
Seniority
Employer Type
Visa / Relocation Details
This role involves leading technical strategic partnerships to develop solutions for future quantum computers. The director will work with strategic sourcing and technical teams to identify and collaborate with partners, particularly in lasers and optics, ensuring their technology meets the company's long-term needs. Key responsibilities include managing supplier relationships, analyzing the supply chain, and driving successful product development. The position requires strong technical expertise and strategic thinking to build robust solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as the primary technical contact for strategic partners and suppliers, especially in lasers and optics.
Ensure that technology, products, and capabilities developed with partners align with Quantinuum's long-term business needs.
Analyze the supply chain to identify gaps and source new partners and suppliers, conducting market studies to assess their capabilities.
Work with technical teams to gather requirements for new outsourcing and partnership opportunities related to future quantum computer components.
Act as a technical and strategic liaison for legal and supply chain teams during contract, joint development, and IP agreement negotiations.
Develop metrics, present, and report on supply chain assessments and progress to leadership, investors, stakeholders, and customers.
Required Skills
Master's degree minimum
20+ years of experience developing innovative components and solutions and transferring them from concept to product, particularly in lasers and optics
Ability to travel 30% of the time and work onsite at the Broomfield, CO location 30% of the time
Must be a U.S. person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, green card holder, or granted asylum/refugee status)
Nice-to-have Skills
10+ years working with diverse suppliers to develop new products from low to full product readiness
Expertise in lasers, optics, and modulators, with demonstrated ability to understand complicated technical specifications and assess supplier capabilities
Experience writing complex and comprehensive requirements documents for components and sub-systems, particularly in lasers and optics
Clear and concise communication skills, adaptable to all levels of an organization and stakeholders
Financial acumen to identify should-costs and ROIs
Experience with successful design-for-cost and scoping cost reduction projects
Demonstrated ability to be a holistic, strategic thinker and a dependable executor of tasks
Technology Tags
The entire job is centered around building and supporting the development of future generations of quantum computers.
The core responsibility of the role is to build solutions and identify suppliers for future generations of quantum computers and their sub-systems, directly related to quantum hardware.
The job is for Quantinuum, a company primarily known for its trapped-ion quantum computing technology.
The job explicitly states expertise in lasers and managing suppliers for laser components.
The job explicitly requires expertise in and responsibility for components related to lasers and optics, which are core elements of quantum optics.
A major responsibility of the role is to analyze and optimize the supply chain for quantum computer components.
The role requires understanding and specifying software and firmware requirements, including control software, for quantum computer components.