College Park, MD30+ days ago
Responsibilities: • Develop and execute the technical roadmap for IonQs quantum platform, aligning with business goals and market demands • Own API design and versioning strategy for IonQ Quantum Cloud, ensuring APIs are consistent, well-documented, and a joy to integrate with • Partner closely with developer tools leadership to ensure seamless integration between cloud services and client SDKs • Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives, collaborating with product, research, and engineering leadership to define long-term technology choices and platform architecture • Manage technical delivery of integrations with major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring alignment with IonQs cloud strategy and business objectives • Develop and manage the cloud services portfolio budget, ensuring cost optimization and alignment with financial goals • Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the cloud platform, providing regular reports and insights to executive leadership • Provide technical leadership and guidance in building robust, scalable, and innovative software solutions that can be deployed in a variety of contexts - including on-prem and hybrid environments. You'd be a great fit with: • 18+ years of senior technical leadership experience, including experience at the director level or above (e.g., 30+ engineers organized in multiple layers) • 10+ years experience designing and scaling APIs, with a proven track record of shipping interfaces developers love to use • Experience owning a multi-tenant cloud API product end-to-end-from API design through deployment and operations-at scale • Strong product and design sense • Experience in driving organizational change and transformation in a rapidly evolving technology environment • Experience recruiting and managing teams distributed across multiple continents • Developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction layers • Strong business acumen and experience in developing and managing the engineering platform for a significant business unit • Managing rigorous incident response processes, on-call rotations, and retrospectives • Personal experience writing software with AI agents • Prior experience with building/scaling platform-as-a-service offerings • Prior experience with quantum computing.