Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - 1067

The role

You will lead supplier quality work for advanced quantum hardware programs. This includes supplier risk assessment, nonconformance review, corrective action closure, and supplier qualification or disqualification recommendations.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership and hands-on supplier quality execution for assigned advanced quantum hardware programs.
• Lead supplier quality risk assessment and mitigation, nonconformance and deviation review, and corrective action verification and closure.
• Make supplier qualification or disqualification recommendations based on quality performance.
• Escalate unresolved risks and decisions beyond delegated authority to senior leadership with data-driven recommendations.
• Develop, implement, and improve Supplier Quality Engineering processes, procedures, tools, and metrics across production and R&D programs.
• Lead end-to-end supplier qualification, audit, and performance management, including critical audits, investigations, corrective actions, and KPI reporting.
• Resolve complex supplier quality issues and assess impacts to product integrity, delivery, and cost.
• Serve as day-to-day technical lead for supplier quality activities and mentor colleagues.
• Partner cross-functionally to embed supplier quality early in product and supplier lifecycle decisions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree minimum.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in supplier quality, quality engineering, or manufacturing, preferably in a technological environment.
• Must be a U.S. person: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or granted asylum or refugee status.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 30%.

Nice to have

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering or a related field.
• Project management experience.
• Experience working in global or cross-cultural teams.
• Experience managing multiple projects in a dynamic global environment.
• Proven experience with R&D and technical manufacturing or business environments.
• Demonstrated business and financial acumen.
• Strong supplier-facing experience and cross-functional supplier quality improvement experience.
• Experience with supplier corrective action management.
• Ability to interpret technical documents, contracts, and regulatory documents.
• Strong technical experience in optics, mechanical, electrical/electronic, or laser systems. Experience across multiple categories is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and the opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology.
• Flexible work arrangements that support work-life balance.
• Employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity opportunities.
• Generous paid time off, sick leave, and 12 paid holidays annually.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee discount programs.

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. person due to contractual requirements.
• Export control rules may apply; authorization may be needed for candidates who are not U.S. persons.
• A pre-employment drug test is required for safety-sensitive positions.

About the company

Quantinuum is a quantum computing company delivering a full stack platform for real-world deployment. It has more than 800 employees and operates in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.