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# Engineering Operations Manager at QuEra Computing, Inc.

- **Company:** QuEra Computing, Inc.
- **Location:** Boston, MA
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/queracomputinginc/jobs/5360805008

## Job description

Engineering Operations Manager:

QuEra is seeking an Engineering Operations Manager to make execution across software, hardware, test infrastructure, and QPU programs more predictable, visible, and efficient.

This person will facilitate the operating system around engineering: planning cadence, cross-team dependency visibility, Jira and Confluence hygiene, release and integration coordination, operational metrics, and follow-through on decisions and action items. The role is designed to give engineering leaders and senior technical staff more time for architecture, technical decisions, team development, and delivery.

This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad organizational influence. It is not a substitute for technical ownership, product management, engineering management, or infrastructure ownership. Engineering and functional leaders remain accountable for priorities, staffing and resource allocation, architecture, technical acceptance criteria, technical risk acceptance, and release or machine go/no-go decisions. The successful candidate will create the structure that lets those functions work together effectively.

What you will own:

- Facilitate engineering planning and execution
- Run a consistent planning and review cadence across software, hardware, QPU programs, and test and engineering infrastructure.
- Translate company and program priorities set by the appropriate leaders into a coherent, capacity-aware engineering plan with named owners, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria supplied or approved by technical owners.
- Maintain a single, decision-useful view of active initiatives, planned work, critical-path dependencies, risks, and delivery confidence.
- Facilitate weekly execution reviews, periodic roadmap reviews, release-readiness reviews, and milestone retrospectives.
- Surface priority or resource conflicts early, document their delivery impact, and bring them to the accountable leader for decision.
- Track decisions and actions to closure without becoming the priority setter, resource owner, or technical approver.
- Assist with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub operating discipline
- Establish and maintain, in partnership with engineering leaders, practical standards for initiative, epic, issue, and release hygiene across engineering Jira projects.
- Work with technical owners to ensure active work has a clear owner, current status, leadership-approved priority and target, dependency context, and definition of done.
- Keep Jira roadmaps, Confluence status pages, engineering documentation, and GitHub delivery activity aligned enough to support reliable reporting.
- Facilitate regular backlog and work-in-progress reviews so accountable leaders can disposition stale, duplicate, unowned, or poorly scoped work.
- Improve traceability from requirements and engineering decisions through implementation, validation, release, and operational follow-up.
- Automate recurring status collection and reporting where practical, while preserving clear human ownership of priorities and decisions.

Cross-functional dependency and milestone management:

- Coordinate dependency visibility among software, hardware, systems, science, test infrastructure, lab operations, procurement, facilities, security, and external partners.
- Build integrated plans for machine milestones, hardware/software integration gates, testbed readiness, infrastructure transitions, and customer or partner commitments using estimates and technical inputs approved by accountable owners.
- Track long-lead procurement, vendor, lab, compute, network, storage, test-equipment, and staffing dependencies that can affect engineering delivery.
- Prepare decision briefs when scope, schedule, capacity, or technical dependencies require leadership tradeoffs.
- Maintain risk, assumption, issue, and dependency logs for critical programs and ensure mitigations have accountable owners and target dates.
- Escalate unresolved conflicts without independently committing another team's resources, changing technical scope, or accepting technical risk.

Facilitate release, quality, and operational readiness:

- Coordinate release and deployment readiness across repositories, CI/CD pipelines, test environments, hardware configurations, and target machines.
- Facilitate the development and use of lightweight readiness gates covering code, hardware, test evidence, documentation, rollback or recovery plans, observability, and operational ownership; technical owners define and approve the criteria and make go/no-go recommendations.
- Partner with engineering owners to improve build, test, release, and deployment flow without taking ownership of the underlying technical systems.
- Coordinate post-incident follow-up, ensuring significant failures produce clear corrective actions, owners, due dates, and updates to engineering plans; the responsible engineering or infrastructure owner leads incident response, diagnosis, and root-cause approval.
- Track operational and quality signals such as aging work, escaped defects, reopened issues, cycle time, blocked work, release predictability, and action-item closure.

Encourage engineering communications and continuous improvement:

- Produce concise, trustworthy weekly and monthly engineering updates for technical and company leadership.
- Create meeting agendas, pre-reads, decision records, and action logs that reduce meeting time and ambiguity.
- Improve shared onboarding processes and make engineering processes, ownership, and authoritative sources easier to find, while functional leaders retain ownership of role-specific onboarding and technical training.
- Identify recurring coordination work that should be standardized, automated, delegated, or eliminated.
- Help pilot and operationalize QuEra's unified hardware/software engineering process, including synchronized planning and integration gates approved by engineering leadership.

Decision-rights summary:

- The Engineering Operations Manager owns the engineering operating cadence, integrated plan, dependency and risk visibility, reporting, readiness coordination, and action follow-through.
- Engineering, Product, Science, Hardware, Software, and Test & Engineering Infrastructure leaders retain ownership of strategy and priorities, architecture and design, people management, staffing and resource allocation, technical estimates and acceptance criteria, underlying build/release/deployment systems, incident command and root-cause conclusions, and final technical go/no-go decisions.

We consistently monitor external market data and update base salary ranges accordingly.  We determine base compensation decisions on several factors, including as geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and/or experience.  In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires. $180,000-$250,000. Note: This role is located in Boston, MA and requires you to be on-site 5 days per week.

QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

## About QuEra Computing, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: QuEra Computing builds and commercializes neutral-atom quantum computers, aiming to deliver fault-tolerant systems for scientific, industrial, and government applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Mikhail Lukin (Chief Scientist, Harvard), Vladan Vuletić (CTO, MIT), and additional Harvard/MIT scientists

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantum computing (hardware, software, and cloud services)
- **Target customers**: High-performance computing (HPC) centers, public sector agencies, enterprise innovators, and research institutions – primarily B2B
- **Mission**: *“A world where quantum computing is a trusted tool for solving high-value problems in science, industry, and society.”* [quera.com](https://www.quera.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **Aquila**: A 256-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer that became the first publicly accessible neutral-atom system on Amazon Braket (launched 2023). Used for quantum simulation and research.
- **Gemini**: QuEra’s first commercially available gate-based neutral-atom quantum computer, deployed on-premises (first system delivered to Japan in 2023).
- **Quantum Innovation Platform**: A full-stack offering combining hardware, software, and co-design services to help partners develop quantum solutions for specific industries.
- **Roadmap to Fault Tolerance**: QuEra plans to reach megaquop logical performance with hundreds of logical qubits by 2028, and gigaquop performance with ~1,000 logical qubits shortly after. [quera.com](https://www.quera.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed; raised >$230M in Series B financing (backed by Google, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Valor, and later expanded by NVIDIA’s NVentures). Total known funding: $17M seed (2021) + $230M+ Series B.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding ~$247M+ (private company; revenue not publicly available)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Google, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Valor Equity Partners, NVIDIA (NVentures), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Selected by Japan’s AIST for a ~$40M on-premises neutral-atom computer integrated with the NVIDIA-powered ABCI-Q supercomputer.
  - Chosen for DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) Stages A and B.
  - Demonstrated a logical quantum processor with 48 logical qubits (2024 Physics World Breakthrough).
  - Published first experimental demonstration of magic state distillation for universal logical quantum computing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Neutral-atom technology**: Scalable to thousands of qubits using optical tweezers, offering a path to fault-tolerant quantum computing that is widely recognized as highly promising.
- **Strong academic roots**: Built on pioneering research from Harvard University and MIT, with founders who are leading physicists in the field.
- **Early ecosystem leadership**: First neutral-atom system on a public cloud (Amazon Braket), first commercially available gate-based neutral-atom system, and active partnerships with major HPC centers and governments.
- **Fault-tolerance roadmap**: Clear technical milestones (megaquop by 2028, gigaquop shortly after) backed by published breakthroughs in error correction and logical qubits.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling toward fault tolerance**: Executing a roadmap to deliver error-corrected logical quantum computers by 2028.
- **Commercial expansion**: Deploying on-premises systems to HPC centers and government labs (e.g., AIST in Japan, DARPA).
- **Ecosystem building**: Co-designing applications with enterprise and public-sector partners, and integrating with classical supercomputing infrastructure (e.g., NVIDIA GPU clusters).
- **International presence**: Establishing QuEra Computing Japan to support the country’s national quantum strategy.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “more science, less fiction” with a focus on real physics, precision engineering, and collaborative learning across disciplines. [quera.com/careers](https://www.quera.com/careers)
- **Benefits**: Company-subsidized medical insurance with Health Reimbursement Account, 100% company-paid dental and vision, 401(k) with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% (immediate vesting), flexible time off, paid holidays, sick leave, free parking, catered lunch-and-learns, stocked kitchens, and employee events.
- **Work environment**: Based in Boston, MA. The engineering team develops classical control systems that operate neutral-atom quantum computers, moving quantum from lab experiments to production-grade systems.
- **Team**: Leadership includes experienced executives (CEO Andy Ory, CFO Ed Durkin, CCO Yuval Boger) and world-class scientists (CTO Vladan Vuletić, Chief Scientist Mikhail Lukin). The company emphasizes internal cross-disciplinary collaboration and external partnerships.

## Sources
1. [quera.com](https://www.quera.com/) – Official website, roadmap, and product details.
2. [quera.com/careers](https://www.quera.com/careers) – Careers page with benefits and culture.
3. [quera.com/about](https://www.quera.com/about) – Company history, leadership, funding, and milestones.
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/quera-computing) – Company overview and financial data.
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/quera-computing-inc) – LinkedIn company page.

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