Systems Engineer

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc . [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers, the IonQ Tempo, is the latest in a line of cutting-edge systems that have been helping customers and partners including Amazon Web Services, and AstraZeneca achieve 20x performance results and accelerate innovation in drug discovery, materials science, financial modeling, logistics, cybersecurity, and defense. In 2025, the company achieved 99.99% two-qubit gate fidelity, setting a world record in quantum computing performance . Headquartered in College Park, Maryland, IonQ has operations in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Washington, Italy, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Our quantum computing services are available through all major cloud providers, while we also meet the needs of networking and sensing customers across land, sea, air, and space. IonQ is making quantum platforms more accessible and impactful than ever before. About Skyloom Skyloom, an IonQ company, is a telecommunications company founded with the mission to develop, deploy, and operate one of the fundamental pieces of tomorrow's space communication infrastructure to provide data transport services on a planetary scale. If you have a strong sense of purpose, focus, urgency, and willingness to compete, or if working on space lasers excites you, join our team to develop the future generation of space communication technology. Skyloom is building the orbital infrastructure for the next renaissance in global connectivity. As Earth’s first space-based telecommunications company, we deliver fiberless, planetary-scale data transport that dramatically increases bandwidth, availability, and resiliency—while reducing latency and total cost of operations. Our proprietary optical technology enables secure, ultra-high-capacity connections across our end-to-end, multi-orbit network or within your own infrastructure, unlocking a new standard for global communications. Location: This role will be onsite in our Broomfield, Colorado office. Travel: Up to 5% Job ID: 552 (1449) The Role As a System Engineer, you are expected to oversee and drive the conceptual and architectural design of Skyloom´s products, ensuring successful delivery aligned with business priorities. You will interact with various stakeholders to manage projects and product portfolios, fostering collaboration among cross-functional teams and acting as the primary contact for product-related inquiries and decisions. Responsibilities Manage budgets: link, pointing, power, mass, and time allocations Oversee memory, physical configuration, and other system parameters. Define system architectures, interfaces, manage requirements definition, flow downs and traceability. Identify key requirements for each subsystem. Negotiate requirements between subsystems and perform trade-off analyses to optimize system performance. Promote comprehensive requirement definition for subsystems. Develop system and subsystem validation and verification (V&V) strategies. Empower and lead system teams, encouraging Systems to take ownership of initiatives and tasks. Lead decision-making processes and trade-off analyses. Review and reach consensus on subsystem schedules, understanding dependencies and inter-team interactions. Approve required tasks for each subsystem, estimating time and resource allocations. Conduct internal design reviews (similar to Critical Design Reviews) to ensure interface requirements are met. Provide training and knowledge-sharing opportunities for Systems teams through internal courses or presentations. Ensure subsystems define their design processes and perform flow-down of system requirements to lower-level subsystems (typically L3 to L4 and below). Prepare typical documentation packages for each project phase and support pro