Project Manager (Illinois Quantum Computing Systems)

Join Infleqtion, a leading company in the quantum computing industry. As a Project Manager, you will play a crucial role in delivering an advanced quantum computing platform and coordinating our work across the Illinois quantum ecosystem. You will work closely with technical leads, operations teams, vendors, facilities personnel, and customer stakeholders to translate technical plans and contractual commitments into coordinated execution that meets customer and business needs. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of advanced technology, infrastructure, research, and customer delivery.

• Coordination of project execution across technical, operations, supply chain, IT, facilities, finance, legal, commercial, vendor, and customer teams.
• Ownership and maintenance of the integrated project plan, including milestones, schedules, dependencies, risks, actions, budgets, and deliverables.
• Leading project communications and meetings, providing clear status reporting, following up on commitments, and escalating issues as needed.
• Bachelor’s degree in physics, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Ability to understand complex technical work well enough to identify dependencies, ask effective questions, and communicate project impacts
• Typically 4+ years managing technical, engineering, hardware, infrastructure, or complex R&D projects
• Strong written, verbal, organizational, and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams
• Experience owning schedules, budgets, risks, and stakeholder communications
• Experience with project-management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar systems
• Experience working with universities, government organizations, research institutions, or public-sector customers
• Experience delivering or commissioning complex scientific or industrial equipment
• Experience in quantum technology, scientific instrumentation, aerospace, semiconductor equipment, or another complex hardware environment
• Familiarity with facility readiness, equipment transport and delivery, IT infrastructure, procurement, and supplier management
• Experience with contractual deliverables, acceptance criteria, change control, and customer reporting
• Experience with inventory management
• PMP certification or comparable project-management training