Principal Solutions Architect – Quantum-Safe Networks

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $193k - $276.7k / year

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IonQ

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • API • Enterprise

IonQ is a company specializing in quantum computing, providing a quantum cloud platform that allows users to access and utilize quantum processors. They offer extensive documentation and resources for developers to learn and implement quantum computing solutions using their SDKs and APIs, integrating with platforms like Qiskit, Cirq, and TensorFlow. IonQ also offers integrations with cloud services such as Amazon Braket, enabling hybrid cloud quantum computing. Their platform includes tools for managing jobs, organizations, and projects, as well as simulators that support noise models and up to 29 qubits. IonQ is dedicated to advancing quantum computing technology and provides community support through channels like Slack.

📋 Description

• Design quantum-safe target architectures and migration paths for customer networks across WAN and transport, data center and campus, segmentation and access control, key management, and cryptography • Lead technical discovery and architecture workshops with network, security, and infrastructure teams • Assess customers’ current state, identify embedded or brittle cryptography, and build executable migration plans • Own the technical thread in complex pursuits, including architecture proposals, RFI/RFP responses, security and compliance questions, competitive positioning, and objection handling • Design and run proofs of concept, interoperability tests, and pilots involving PQC, hybrid key exchange, and QKD-integrated links where relevant • Translate field learning into reference architectures, migration playbooks, interoperability matrices, and design guides • Represent the customer voice in Product and Engineering, communicating architectural constraints, integration gaps, and roadmap requirements • Track standards and the threat landscape, including NIST PQC guidance, IETF protocol work, and national or sector-specific mandates • Partner with Marketing, Corporate Communications, and GTM on talks, papers, blogs, standards bodies, and industry events • Raise the technical bar through architecture reviews, mentoring, and reusable design patterns

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years designing and securing enterprise and/or service provider networks in solutions architecture, network architecture, security architecture, or senior customer-facing engineering • Deep hands-on knowledge of routing and switching, IP transport, network segmentation, firewall and access control design, VPN and network-layer encryption, and Zero Trust principles • Multi-vendor experience, such as Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Nokia • Working knowledge of TLS, IPsec, MACsec, PKI and certificate lifecycle, key management, and practical algorithm and key-material changes • Ability to lead customer workshops and architecture discussions with engineers, CISOs, and SVPs of Infrastructure • Knowledge of post-quantum cryptography, crypto-agility, quantum key distribution, and network migration challenges • Strong written communication skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Willingness to travel up to 30%, primarily within the US, with incidental international travel • U.S. Person status or qualifying U.S. citizenship, nationality, permanent residency, refugee, or asylum status may be required for export controls and government contracts work

🏖️ Benefits

• Base, bonus, equity, and a range of benefit options • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans • Matching 401(k) • Unlimited PTO and paid holidays • Parental/adoption leave • Legal insurance • Home technology stipend