Hiring: Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Compute Platform Company: Physics World Location: Bothell, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 21:57:41 Employment Type: Contract Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Jira, Program Management About the job Experience: •Capacity and staffing modeling from conflicting inputs, with the discipline to label an unknown as unknown •A demonstrated ability to earn technical stakeholders' trust through consistency and results •Genuine enthusiasm for reading and writing PRDs and ERDs •Solid functional working knowledge of quantum computing, though no quantum background is required. We'll teach you! •The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site. Required Skills: •Compute Platform turns quantum capability into quantum utility by building the APIs, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, and application layer that connect IonQ's QPUs to users. Without it, powerful hardware goes nowhere. •This is a high-visibility role with ownership of some of the company's highest-priority initiatives. As such, this role will routinely interact with senior technical leadership and key partners. •Own the end-to-end delivery of IonQ's application platform, developer tools, and compiler roadmap, spanning numerous cross-functional development threads •Partner with engineering leadership to turn technical vision into incremental milestones that ship, identifying risks and mitigations before they become schedule problems •Build and run the timelines, tracking, and reporting that teams actually use, where the measure of success is adoption; you'll have access to cutting edge AI tools as a force multiplier •Keep the systems of record honest. Our plans live across PRDs, trackers, and Jira, and when those drift apart the program is flying blind. You'll close that gap and automate the checking •Make invisible work visible: on-call burden, sustaining load, and technical debt tracked as rigorously as feature delivery •Dive into the details on long-pole problems. When a program stalls, you're in the weeds with the team Qualifications: •8+ years managing technical programs and delivering against aggressive timelines •Track record leading technical teams through genuine ambiguity, not just executing a defined plan •A habit of turning diffuse problems into specific, minimal, assignable asks •Technical fluency to engage engineering leads directly on scoping and tradeoffs, and comfort reading and reasoning about code •Willingness to re-baseline against reality rather than defend dates that have stopped being true, and the judgment to tell a target that motivates from one that just generates fiction •You've built or automated the reconciliation between planning docs and ticket systems, and you treat drift between them as a defect •Fluency moving between fast-cycle delivery and longer-horizon program building as the situation demands •AI as a core part of how you work. You've built agent-driven workflows for program management and want to push that much further •Highly effective written and verbal communication Compensation: •$180,000 - $270,000 / year •The total compensation package includes base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options found on our career site Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!