Quantum Technical Program Manager

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Microsoft Quantum is searching for a Quantum Technical Program Manager to join their team. This role focuses on representing Quantum Engineering in strategic partnerships and engagements, translating technical roadmaps into executable plans, and ensuring contractual terms align with technical outcomes. The position requires a Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience and involves significant cross-functional collaboration.

Ansvarsområden

Represent Quantum Engineering in partner strategy, procurement, and agreement discussions, ensuring technical priorities and constraints drive decisions.
Own program requirements and technical success criteria for external hardware, components, systems, capacity, and engineering services.
Translate architecture, roadmap, integration, performance, reliability, and schedule needs into clear partner requirements, evaluation criteria, and decision frameworks.
Partner with engineering leaders on build-versus-partner decisions, assessing technology readiness, integration complexity, technical differentiation, and long-term platform implications.
Serve as the primary bridge between Quantum PM and Engineering and Microsoft business development, finance, legal, sourcing, compliance, and executive stakeholders, converting technical needs into actionable inputs for deal structures, budgets, sourcing strategies, and contracts without losing engineering intent.
Develop concise executive recommendations integrating technical evidence, product strategy, cost, schedule, partner capability, and risk, and establish the governance, decision rights, escalation paths, and operating rhythms that keep teams and partners aligned.
Lead technical engagement with quantum hardware partners, component suppliers, and research institutions across joint roadmap reviews, architecture discussions, interface definition, milestone planning, and technical issue resolution.
Coordinate technical diligence and partner evaluation spanning performance, scalability, quality, manufacturability, security, compliance, supportability, and integration readiness.
Define acceptance criteria and measurable outcomes for prototypes, development programs, hardware deliveries, capacity commitments, and technical services, and track execution end-to-end through delivery.
Partner with sourcing, Finance, and Legal on negotiation strategy, investment models, and contract terms covering technical deliverables, IP boundaries, data and security requirements, warranties, and change control, then monitor partner performance against those obligations after signature.

Krav

Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development or equivalent experience.
6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including Microsoft Cloud Background Check and citizenship verification for export control regulations.
Ability to apply AI to accelerate engineering and lab workflows.
Ability to evaluate agentic solutions with measurable metrics and human in the loop safeguards following Microsoft Responsible AI requirements for generative AI.

Önskade kvalifikationer

Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years experience engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
1+ year(s) of experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).
Experience evaluating external technologies and partners through technical diligence, requirements definition, integration planning, and measurable acceptance criteria.
Experience applying program judgment and systems thinking to balance performance, reliability, scalability, manufacturability, cost, schedule, supply, and long-term architecture.
Experience working effectively with business development, finance, legal, sourcing, compliance, and senior executive stakeholders on complex partnerships or procurement initiatives.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to make complex technical issues clear to nontechnical stakeholders and commercial constraints clear to engineering teams.

Förmåner

Access to information controlled for export under export control regulations.
Design and build AI agents/copilots that assist with experiment setup, log triage, measurement report generation, protocol templating, and knowledge retrieval.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Färdigheter

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