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title: 'Quantum Operations Engineering Manager at Atom Computing'
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# Quantum Operations Engineering Manager at Atom Computing

- **Company:** Atom Computing
- **Location:** Copenhagen, Denmark
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/atomcomputing/4538e40d-4d26-47e2-8c4a-87a43aa13365

## Job description

At Atom Computing, we build quantum computers using arrays of optically trapped neutral atoms that will empower customers to achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs. Join a team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals advancing the state of the art in quantum computing.

We are seeking a Quantum Operations Manager to lead the onsite team responsible for commissioning, operating, and maintaining a commercial neutral-atom quantum computer in Copenhagen. Reporting to the Director of Commercial Quantum Systems, you will manage a team of four engineers and oversee the technical work required to deliver reliable system performance.

This is a hands-on technical leadership position requiring expertise in complex experimental systems, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to lead engineers in an operational environment. You will work closely with Atom's Quantum Engineering, Control Systems, and Software teams to resolve technical challenges and support ongoing system improvements.

## Responsibilities

- Lead, manage, and develop a team of four Quantum Operations Engineers responsible for the onsite quantum computing system.
- Oversee system installation, commissioning, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Establish daily work priorities, assign technical responsibilities, and coordinate planned maintenance and system upgrades.
- Provide technical guidance for diagnosing and resolving issues involving atomic physics, optical systems, control hardware, and software.
- Monitor system performance, identify recurring issues, and drive improvements to operational reliability.
- Coordinate with engineering teams to troubleshoot complex problems, implement technical changes, and maintain system performance.
- Establish and maintain operating procedures, maintenance documentation, and technical records.
- Manage onsite incident response and coordinate the team's on-call coverage for unexpected maintenance and system issues.
- Communicate system status, operational risks, and technical priorities to the Director of Commercial Quantum Systems and relevant stakeholders.
- Support the technical development, performance management, and training of team members.

Required Qualifications

- PhD in Physics, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant industry experience.
- Strong technical background in experimental atomic physics, quantum computing, or similarly complex scientific systems.
- Experience commissioning, operating, maintaining, or troubleshooting complex hardware and software systems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, coordinate engineering work, and resolve complex technical problems.
- Ability to make sound technical decisions, prioritize competing operational demands, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly across multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Willingness to work onsite at our Copenhagen office five days per week and travel occasionally to Atom Computing's facilities in Boulder, Colorado.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with neutral-atom systems, cold-atom experiments, or coherent control of quantum systems.
- Experience operating or supporting complex scientific equipment in a production or customer-facing environment.
- Familiarity with Python and Git.
- Experience developing operating procedures, maintenance programs, or technical training materials.

Atom Computing Denmark provides a variety of benefits, including private medical for our employees and their children, paid time off, a pension plan (with company contribution), disability and life insurance.

We offer a competitive salary commensurate with experience. In addition to salary, we offer an annual bonus and equity in the company.

## About Atom Computing

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Atom Computing builds large-scale, gate-based quantum computers using arrays of optically-trapped neutral atoms to help companies and researchers achieve unprecedented computational breakthroughs.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded; $60M Series B closed January 2022, ~$191.2M total funding across 12 rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Berkeley, California, United States
- **Founded**: January 2018
- **Founders**: Ben Bloom (Founder & CTO), Jonathan King (Co-Founder & Chief Scientist); Rob Hays serves as CEO & President

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantum computing / quantum hardware and software
- **Target customers**: B2B; enterprise researchers, commercial quantum algorithm developers, national labs, and scientific institutions seeking on-premises quantum systems
- **Mission or purpose**: Building large-scale quantum computers to enable breakthrough discoveries and tackle increasingly challenging applications, with a clear path to fault tolerance.

## Products & Services
- **[AC1000 — Quantum Computing Platform]**: A universal, gate-based quantum computer commercially available for on-premises deployment. Features 1,200+ physical qubits, all-to-all qubit connectivity, better-than-threshold fidelities, mid-circuit measurement with qubit reuse/reset, and real-time conditional branching — designed to support building logical qubits.
- **[Partner Program]**: Early-access collaboration program for software and application development partners to explore quantum algorithms, provide feedback, and work alongside Atom Computing's technical team on real-world applications.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of ~$191.2M across 12 rounds (as of 2026); latest reported annual revenue ~$5.3M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Third Point Ventures (led Series B), Innovation Endeavors, Prelude Ventures, National Science Foundation (grants)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount grew ~63.6% YoY to 98 employees (2026), with +2.4% monthly growth
  - 31 active job postings; job postings up +520% year-over-year and +93.8% quarter-over-quarter
  - Expanded to offices in Berkeley, Boulder, and Austin; workforce distributed across United States and Denmark
  - 24 scholarly works with ~9,800+ citations; field-weighted citation impact of 3.7; 67% open access
  - Published industry-leading coherence times (>40s) on nuclear spin qubits in Nature Communications

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive scalability**: Neutral-atom qubits are held microns apart by focused lasers, have no electrical charge, and can be tightly packed into arrays scaling to thousands or millions of qubits without a substantial increase in system footprint
- **Long coherence**: Use of alkaline-earth metal atoms with closed outer electron shells delivers industry-leading coherence times and insensitivity to environmental noise
- **Reduced complexity**: All qubit control is mediated by light through free space rather than individual electrical cables per qubit — a simpler path to scale
- **High fidelity**: Neutral atoms are intrinsically identical and present no fundamental physics obstacles to reaching fault-tolerant thresholds
- **Advanced technical capabilities**: First-mover positioning with mid-circuit measurement, qubit reuse/reset, and real-time conditional branching on a 1,200+ qubit commercial system

## Strategic Focus
- Advancing toward fault-tolerant quantum computing and logical qubits
- Scaling neutral-atom arrays to thousands and millions of qubits
- Expanding commercial deployment of the AC1000 platform with enterprise and research partners
- Growing the partner ecosystem for software and application development
- Scaling the engineering and technical team (significant increase in software, quantum engineering, and opto-mechanical postings)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as collaborative and curiosity-driven — "explore the unconventional, experiment, and let curiosity be your guide"; team includes scientists, hardware/software engineers, and business professionals
- **Work environment**: Flexible working arrangements, catered in-office lunches, team gatherings, and a "come as you are" atmosphere
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive healthcare, life insurance, 401k matching, and unlimited paid time off
- **Locations**: Offices in attractive tech hubs — Berkeley, CA; Boulder, CO; and Austin, TX
- **Engineering culture**: Deep technical ownership across quantum engineering, control systems, and software; talent recruited from Rigetti Computing, Quantinuum, National Instruments, NIST, and top universities (Stanford, University of Colorado Boulder); alumni exit to Google, AWS, and U.C. Berkeley

## Sources
1. [atom-computing.com — Careers](https://atom-computing.com/careers/)
2. [atom-computing.com — About Us](https://atom-computing.com/about-us/)
3. [atom-computing.com — Quantum Computing Technology](https://atom-computing.com/quantum-computing-technology/)
4. [linkedin.com — Atom Computing Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/atom-computing)
5. [cbinsights.com — Atom Computing Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/atom-computing)

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