Staff Quality Engineer
IonQ · Broomfield, CO
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Quality
- Base pay
- $127k–$166k
- Travel
- 15%
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior quality role at IonQ (industrial) in Broomfield, CO. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving Skyloom's AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring products, processes, and suppliers consistently meet customer, regulatory, and company requirements for quality.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, CAPA, AS9100, Internal audits, Supplier quality, EHS / safety
- Base pay
- $127k–$166k
- Day to day
- about 15% travel
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About the role
The Role
The Quality function plays a critical role in ensuring product conformity, process excellence, regulatory compliance, and customer satisfaction throughout the entire product lifecycle—from supplier qualification through final product acceptance.
We are seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join our Quality Assurance team. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving Skyloom's AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring products, processes, and suppliers consistently meet customer, regulatory, and company
requirements
for quality, reliability, and performance.
Working cross-functionally with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management, you will lead internal quality assurance activities, including quality system compliance, manufacturing quality, audits, nonconformance management, root cause investigations, risk management, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives across multiple aerospace programs. You will also support Supplier Quality activities to help ensure the highest standards across Skyloom's products and operations.
Responsibilities
Maintain and continuously improve the AS9100 Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and company requirements.
Plan and perform internal, supplier, and customer audits while driving corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
Lead nonconformance management, root cause investigations, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) to support manufacturing and engineering activities.
Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Program Management to resolve quality issues and improve product and process performance.
Develop quality metrics, technical reports, risk assessments, and Management Review inputs.
Support Supplier Quality activities, including supplier qualification, audits, source inspections, supplier performance monitoring, NCRs, SCARs, RMAs, and supplier quality documentation.
Ensure compliance with AS9100 and customer quality
requirements
while supporting cross-functional quality initiatives.
Support document control, engineering change implementation, and quality record management in accordance with the company's Quality Management System.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Industrial, Manufacturing, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
7+ years of professional experience in Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, or Aerospace Quality.
Previous experience within the aerospace or space industry.
Demonstrated experience performing AS9100 Internal Audits and working within AS9100 Quality Management Systems.
Internal Auditor qualification.
Experience working in ISO Class 7/8 cleanroom environments.
Experience working in compliance with OSHA regulations, hazard identification, risk assessment, and Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS)
requirements
within manufacturing and laboratory settings.
Strong technical writing skills with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, manufacturing documentation, and workmanship standards.
Strong knowledge of Root Cause Analysis methodologies, supplier quality management, and aerospace manufacturing processes.
Knowledge of IPC-A-610, J-STD-001, and ESD control requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
AS9100 Auditor certification or equivalent Quality Management System auditor qualification.
Experience with aerospace manufacturing, including optical, electronic, electro-mechanical, or photonic assemblies.
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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 15%, domestic or international