Senior Process Technician, Packaging
IonQAbout the role
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.
Our College Park packaging cleanroom builds the quantum processing units (QPUs) at the heart of our systems, plus a steady stream of quick-turn packaging hardware for teams across IonQ. We are looking for a hands-on technician to become one of the small group of people trusted to build this hardware end to end.
Over your first six months we will train and qualify you on our full packaging workflow — roughly 7–8 critical processes spanning precision cleaning, epoxy and assembly work, die bonding, wire bonding, reflow, plasma cleaning, inspection, and test. Once qualified, you will run these processes on real products: small, delicate, high-value components where a single dropped part can be the difference between delivering hardware and starting over.
What you will do
- Execute released procedures to clean, assemble, bond, inspect, and test packaged ion traps and related quick-turn hardware.
- Personally operate complex packaging equipment.
- Handle small, fragile, expensive components under a microscope with steady hands and deliberate care.
- Perform incoming inspection, record results, and complete travelers, work orders, and discrepancy reports accurately.
- Collect process and test data and provide first-pass interpretation, flagging trends and anomalies to the engineering team.
- Stop and escalate when reality deviates from the procedure.
- Draft recipe or program adjustments within engineer-defined limits.
- Support daily cleanroom operations: 5S, cleaning hardware and workspaces, restocking consumables, preparing parts for work orders.
You would be a good fit with
- Roughly 2+ years of hands-on experience in a high-tech manufacturing, lab, or precision-assembly environment — semiconductor, photonics, RF, medical device, aerospace, or adjacent fields.
- Demonstrated fine motor skill with small components. Professional microscope work, microelectronics rework, or comparable precision handcraft (we mean it — skilled miniature assembly counts) is
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