We are looking for a Senior Manager of Quantum Applications -- Sweden Site Manager to lead our business and technology development in utilizing IonQ’s quantum computers to create solutions for our business partners in the Nordics region and globally. As a Sr. Manager of Quantum Applications -- Sweden Site Manager, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to solve the world’s most complex problems using world’s best quantum computers built at IonQ. As a founding leader of the IonQ Sweden office, you will also play a key role in growing the site, establishing a culture and connecting with both the local innovation ecosystem as well as other IonQ sites and customers around the world.

As a seasoned R&D leader and a deep technical expert on a team of PhD application scientists co-located within the vibrant BioVenture Hub in Gothenburg, you will drive the discovery of new algorithms and computational resource models, the development of core IP, and oversee the maturation of hybrid quantum solutions from quantum circuits to deployment to the cloud platform. You will work closely with product, marketing, sales, operations, and external customers/partners to brainstorm new ideas, define multi-year roadmaps, and represent IonQ at high-visibility technical conferences (often all in a single day)!

Responsibilities:

• As a founding leader of the IonQ quantum application development center based in Gothenburg, Sweden, drive a culture of customer success and innovation across the site
• Help develop, hire and grow IonQ’s Sweden/Nordics Applications team and business by establishing and managing customer engagements, and develop quantum solutions for practical real-world problems
• Partner with IonQ’s clients to develop and execute strategies for establishing quantum solutions business in the region and across a wide range of industry verticals
• Build, grow and manage a highly talented technical team in the Sweden/Nordics region dedicated to delivering hybrid quantum applications for partners and customers 
• Identify opportunities for developing and deploying quantum solution packages for a broad user base in the Sweden/Nordics region and beyond
• Interface with other technical teams to enable co-design and co-development of powerful IonQ quantum computers that are optimized for customer use cases
• Work closely with Product Management, Sales, and Marketing teams to expand our customer base by developing hybrid quantum products that will deliver commercial advantage
• Create strong portfolio of intellectual property in quantum applications
• Develop new business models and identify new business opportunities enabled by hybrid quantum solutions, including integrating quantum algorithms within larger, end-to-end customer workflows
• Collaborate with other managers and consistently and effectively communicate across the organization and up the leadership chain. Represent the group at academic, industry and local events

You’d be a good fit with: 

• 12+ years of experience in technical R&D for solution development in algorithms and/or computational applications
• 4+ years of experience leading consultative customer engagements 
• Operational knowledge of quantum computing capabilities
• 5+ years of managing deeply technical teams to develop innovative solutions for customer problems, integrating R&D artifacts with larger workflows and bringing them to market
• Proven track record of technical leadership and innovation, demonstrated through deployed solutions, commercial licenses, publications and/or patents
• Experience in building, operating and growing business focused on providing solutions that solve customer needs

You’d be a great fit with: 

• Ph.D. in chemistry, computer science, engineering, physics or related field
• Prior experience commercializing radically new technologies
• Prior experience leading global collaborations 
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering quantum computing solutions
• Domain expertise in computational/quantum chemistry, biopharma, optimization

Location: This role is based onsite in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Travel: 10% domestic and international
Job ID:  1052

We are looking for a Senior Quantum Field Engineer. As a Senior Quantum Field Engineer, you’ll be part of a team whose mission is to lead IonQ on its journey to build the world’s best quantum solutions and solve the world’s most complex problems.  Field Engineering sits at the intersection of customers, markets, products and product teams, algorithms, applications, innovation and strategy - this is the team where ideas become applied and have impact.

Join a nimble team of scientists, engineers, salespeople, marketers, business developers, and product managers to drive an entirely new quantum computing business. We’re seeking versatile engineers and architects skilled in technical sales, technical demos and customer interactions who feel energized to deliver IonQ’s quantum computing products and quantum applications. 

Responsibilities:

• Inspire prospective clients by explaining IonQ’s strategy, portfolio and answering technical questions about quantum portfolio (compute, network, security, sensing and space) and quantum applications.
• Lead and shepherd client discussions, inspiring them to see how quantum applications can be implemented in their business domain.
• This includes working through business needs and mapping Quantum Algorithms (financial services, bioscience, chemistry and materials, optimization, generative AI, and other domains) into application code and executing Proof-of-Concepts together with the IonQ Application team.
• Share insights from clients with the IonQ Product Management and Engineering teams such that client feedback is incorporated into our products.
• Navigate competitive objection handling
• Translate business needs expressed by our clients into technical work projects in collaboration with other team members.
• Create assets to explain features of our quantum applications and other IonQ quantum products.
• Move dialogs from initial ideation to focused exploration domain through to proof-of-concept and ultimately into production workflows.
• Lead client discovery sessions for business-oriented use cases that uncover potential overlap with development of useful quantum algorithms together with the IonQ Application team
• Partner with marketing, developer relations and business development to grow awareness of IonQ in the world at large.
• Attend industry conferences, as needed, to talk to client and support our booth activities.
• Some travel expected in the US (20%) but opportunities for global travel are available as well for client meeting and IonQ conference activities.
• This is a technical customer-facing role with the appropriate balance of compensation acceleration for success and a base salary to ensure that credibility and technical correctness always come first.

You’d be a good fit with:

• 5 years of experience in technical customer-facing roles or equivalent capacity.  The ability to communicate (at the various context-appropriate levels of depth) and persuade clearly, have strong EQ, and other customer facings skills are critical.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or other STEM field, such as Chemistry, Physics or Engineering
• Motivated learner with a strong interest in quantum computing.

You’d be a great fit with: 

• Masters or PhD in a STEM field, perhaps adjacent to quantum computing.
• Time on the customer side in various verticals included leadership roles - this provides customer empathy
• Hands-on experience with Qiskit, Cirq or other quantum computing SDK.
• Proficient in Python and Jupyter Notebooks.
• Expert architecture skills across various technologies (“full stack skills”)
• Experience leading technical events.

Location: This position requires candidates to be based in the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden).
Travel: 20% travel domestically and globally
Job ID: 1375

We’re looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager who will be part of a cross-functional team at IonQ whose mission is to deliver the world’s best quantum solutions in life sciences on the world’s best quantum computers to solve the world’s most complex and impactful problems. This role is open as part of IonQ’s Quantum Applications team based in either Gothenburg, Sweden or Toronto, Canada. You will work closely with partners within the life sciences innovation ecosystem and beyond to create new hybrid quantum applications with significant commercial impact.

In this role, you will lead a talented team of application scientists to deliver the next generation of quantum computing solutions to real-world customers in the advanced health care and life sciences (HCLS) domain. You’ll work with principal investigators, product managers, customers and innovation partners to drive complex projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling and completion. You will support the delivery of a wide variety of initiatives ranging from bespoke quantum solutions, performance-optimized quantum libraries and platforms, as well as first-of-a-kind quantum applications. You will also help develop multi-generational technology and product roadmaps.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive efficient end-to-end delivery of novel quantum HCLS applications built for IonQ quantum computers.
• Lead the transition of technology and capabilities from R&D to commercialization. Define and measure success metrics for each stage of development.
• Create and manage timelines of complex projects, their documentation, milestones and deliverables. Ensure that project dependencies are met, cross-functional resources are aligned, and project teams move forward at a rapid pace.
• Conduct risk analysis and develop risk mitigation plans that result in the successful delivery of projects. Stay ahead of the projects by proactively tackling emerging risks.
• When necessary, roll up your sleeves, dive into technical details, and lead problem solving efforts.
• Communicate with a wide base of stakeholders: internal and external, technical and non-technical. Drive stakeholder alignment and support.
• Maintain and promote operational rigor, reduce waste by implementing the right amount of process without slowing down innovation.
• Work with project, contracting, legal, finance and sales teams to develop proposals, technical volumes and financial reports; ensure regulatory, fiscal and IP compliance.
• Drive quality control and devops processes such as standard work, CI/CD, version control, code style/reviews and automated testing.
• Accommodate occasional travel and flexible work hours to communicate across time zones and ensure customer success, as needed.

You’d be a good fit with: 

• B.S. in physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science or another technical domain; or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated prior experience working directly with clients to co-develop advanced computational modeling solutions.
• Demonstrated prior experience delivering complex innovative projects with a significant R&D component.
• Prior experience in information technology or R&D in the HCLS domain.
• Experience leading complex projects using project management tools such as GitHub, Jira, Smartsheet, etc.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Ability to lead through influence without formal authority.
• Strong commitment to customer advocacy, success and customer engagement.
• Ability to work effectively with a strong work ethic and close attention to detail. Capacity to manage a fast-paced dynamic team environment with constantly evolving roles and responsibilities.

You’d be a great fit with:

• M.S. or Ph.D in physics, mathematics, engineering, computer science or another technical domain; or equivalent experience.
• Working knowledge of quantum computing, quantum circuits and quantum software tools, e.g. Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane.
• Demonstrated prior experience developing cloud and high-performance computing applications.
• Demonstrated prior experience transitioning first-of-a-kind software prototypes to commercial products.
• Subject matter expertise in the HCLS domain.

Location: This role will be based onsite in Gothenburg, Sweden, or Toronto, Canada.
Travel: 10% domestic and international, with a focus on visiting customers and partners
Job ID: 1401

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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