Manufacturing Manager (Quantum Computing)

Location: Broomfield, Colorado, United States; onsite

Salary: USD 162,000–218,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops a full-stack quantum computing platform for real-world applications across pharmaceuticals, materials science, financial services, government, industry, and research.

What you will do

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, physicists, and technicians, including hiring, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and capability development.
• Own industrialization and manufacturing strategy for ultra-high-vacuum subsystems from early builds through release, production ramp, and sustained production.
• Define manufacturing readiness, capacity planning, process controls, facility requirements, validation strategies, release gates, and lifecycle ownership.
• Develop production systems including process flows, work instructions, build travelers, drawings, inspection plans, test procedures, tooling, fixtures, training, and engineering change control.
• Partner with design, quality, supply chain, operations, program management, suppliers, and other stakeholders to improve manufacturability, yield, reliability, cost, scalability, and delivery.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership on the production floor to assemble, integrate, validate, troubleshoot, and deliver complex hardware; travel up to 15%.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• At least 8 years of experience in high-technology hardware development, product industrialization, or manufacturing engineering, including at least 3 years leading a multidisciplinary technical or manufacturing team with direct people-management responsibility.
• Must be a U.S. Person: U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder, or worker granted asylum or refugee status.
• Must not be a national of the People’s Republic of China or Russia unless also a U.S. citizen, due to U.S. government national security requirements.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree in physics, mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience transitioning complex prototype hardware into repeatable production-ready systems and leading manufacturing readiness through release and ramp.
• Experience with UHV or XHV systems, precision mechanical assemblies, optics, photonics, cryogenics, atomic-physics hardware, or complex scientific instrumentation.
• Knowledge of DFM/DFA, process validation, configuration management, product release, engineering change control, and sustained production support.
• Experience with manufacturing strategy, readiness plans, capacity models, process definition, facility layouts, tooling, fixtures, test equipment, inspection, training, and manufacturing readiness reviews.
• Hands-on experience assembling, integrating, testing, troubleshooting, and improving complex hardware in a cleanroom or controlled manufacturing environment.
• Experience with root-cause corrective action, statistical analysis, yield improvement, production metrics, supplier management, outsourcing strategies, and material flow.
• Strong organizational, communication, strategic planning, data-driven decision-making, and technical leadership skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Safety-sensitive role requiring a pre-employment drug test.
• Flexible work arrangements, employer-subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a 401(k) plan with company match and student loan repayment benefit.
• Equity opportunities, paid time off, sick leave, 12 paid holidays, paid parental leave, and employee discount programs.
• Ongoing applications with no application deadline.