What jobs is IonQ hiring for right now?

As of Oct 30, 2026, IonQ has 125 open jobs on Alion. 74 of them state a salary (58%). They are posted in 10 cities. 43 allow remote or hybrid work. Its postings score B on the Alion truth index.

Source: Alion Coverage: open vacancies from the employer's own careers board Oct 29, 2026
Open jobs
125
With salary
74 (58%)
Cities
10
Posted in 30 days
51
Median age
40 days

How IonQ hires

Truth index
B 82/100
Median time to fill
41 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
72%
Reposted roles
0%

IonQ scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 72% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 41 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

What IonQ posted in the last two weeks

Posted in 14 days
23
Busiest day
4 Oct 23, 2026
Days with postings
10 / 14
Oct 16, 2026: 1 posted Oct 17, 2026: 0 posted Oct 18, 2026: 1 posted Oct 19, 2026: 4 posted Oct 20, 2026: 3 posted Oct 21, 2026: 3 posted Oct 22, 2026: 1 posted Oct 23, 2026: 4 posted Oct 24, 2026: 0 posted Oct 25, 2026: 0 posted Oct 26, 2026: 2 posted Oct 27, 2026: 3 posted Oct 28, 2026: 1 posted Oct 29, 2026: 0 posted
Oct 16, 2026 weekend Oct 29, 2026

Which roles IonQ is hiring for

81 Jobs
Industrial Engineering 20 24.7%
Backend 13 16%
Hardware 11 13.6%
Product 8 9.9%
Operations 8 9.9%
Other roles 21 25.9%

Where IonQ is hiring

IonQ hires from 20 offices across 7 countries, holding 115 of its open vacancies between them.

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How the work at IonQ is set up

Work format
In office 84 66%
Hybrid 22 17%
Remote 21 17%
Level
Senior 51 44%
Staff+ 40 34%
Lead 10 9%
Middle 8 7%
Head+ 6 5%
Junior 2 2%
Employment
Full-Time 3 100%

Salaries in IonQ vacancies

74 of 125 vacancies state a salary (58%). The range below is built from those 74 stated figures only, never from an estimate.

Lower quartile
$155k
Median
$191k
Upper quartile
$228k
$140k$275k

All salaries at IonQ

Open vacancies at IonQ

$160k – $200k per year · In office · Nationals only · 4+ years exp · PhD · Albuquerque
Python
C++
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
Quantum
Qiskit
IonQ
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$113k – $141k per year · Remote (location not specified) · Nationals only · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · United States
Claude
ChatGPT
Quantum
IonQ
Apply
$152k – $228k per year · In office · Nationals only · College Park
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Smartsheet
Jira
Quantum
IonQ
Apply
≈ $63k – $107k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · 6+ years exp · Oxford
IonQ
SpaceTech
AS9100
Apply
≈ $78k – $189k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · Oxford
Rust
IonQ
Apply
≈ $78k – $170k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · Oxford
GitHub
Management
Confluence
Jira
Quantum
IonQ
Apply
$148k – $185k per year · Remote (location not specified) · Nationals only · Bachelor's Degree
Incident Management
SLI/SLO/SLA
Management
Jira
Marketing
Salesforce
Zendesk
Quantum
IonQ
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$152k – $190k per year · In office · Top Secret · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Louisville
Confluence
Smartsheet
Jira
Agile
Scrum
Quantum
IonQ
Apply
≈ $15k – $41k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Mumbai
Machine Learning
Quantum
IonQ
Apply
≈ $14k – $39k per year (Estimated) · In office · Nationals only · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Mumbai
Python
SQL
Jupyter Notebook
Computer Vision
Google Colab
CUDA
Machine Learning
DevOps
Rest API
HPC
Quantum
Qiskit
Cirq
PennyLane
IonQ
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Questions about jobs at IonQ

Is IonQ hiring right now?

Yes. As of Oct 30, 2026, IonQ has 125 open jobs on Alion.

What roles does IonQ hire for?

IonQ is hiring mostly for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware. The largest group is Industrial Engineering with 20 open vacancies.

How much does IonQ pay?

58% of vacancies at IonQ state a salary. Across those 74 stated figures the range runs from $155k to $228k, with a median of $191k.

Where does IonQ hire?

IonQ has open vacancies in 10 places, most of all in Oxford, Bothell, Geneva. It keeps 20 offices with open roles, spread across 7 countries. IonQ is run from College Park.

Does IonQ offer remote work?

Yes. 43 of the open vacancies at IonQ allow remote or hybrid work, which is 34% of the board.

How long have IonQ vacancies been open?

Half have been on Alion for 40 days or less. 23 vacancies at IonQ have been listed for more than 90 days, and postings of that age are far more often out of date.

How reliable are IonQ job postings?

IonQ scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 72% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 41 days.

How do you apply to IonQ?

IonQ accepts applications through Greenhouse, so the form opens on that system rather than on Alion.

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