Staff System Architect

About the role

The Staff System Architect will lead the technical architecture and roadmap for the next-generation rack-mountable SNSPD platform. This role involves defining system-level designs, ensuring architectural coherence across hardware and software domains, and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, high-performing cryogenic photon detection systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture, design decisions, and cross-functional alignment to ensure a scalable and high-performing SNSPD platform
• Drive technology roadmap, integration, and innovation by evaluating and implementing new technologies
• Translate product requirements into clear system-level designs and specifications
• Define system structure, interfaces, and key architectural decisions while managing trade-offs across performance, cost, and scalability
• Guide system integration and resolve complex cross-domain design challenges

Required skills

• System architecture
• Complex system design
• Multi-domain integration
• Photonics
• Cryogenics
• Embedded systems
• Technical leadership

Nice to have

• SNSPD
• Quantum systems
• Industrialized systems
• Rack-mountable systems

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in physics, electrical engineering, photonics, or a related field
• PhD in a relevant field

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Matching 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid holidays
• Parental leave
• Adoption leave
• Legal insurance
• Home technology stipend

About the Company

IonQ, Inc. is a leading quantum platform and merchant supplier delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. The company is known for its cutting-edge quantum computers and has achieved world-record performance in quantum computing.