Quantum Datacenter Engineer

International Business Machines Corp

NY

JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
NY
POSTED
30+ days ago

We seek a senior infrastructure engineer to serve as the forward-deployed technical lead for installing complex quantum systems - high-density water-cooled electronics, cryogenic quantum hardware, and the unique mechanical, electrical, and environmental constraints they carry - into customer and partner datacenters. You will translate IBM's reference architecture into a buildable plan for each site, navigating the trade spaces created by existing power, cooling, floor space, structural, and site constraints that vary from one datacenter to the next. You will assess site readiness, define the facility requirements a customer must meet, review and guide their build, and oversee bring-up and commissioning so that some of the most sensitive computational equipment in the world can run reliably outside our own walls. You will be a trusted advisor embedded with customer and partner teams throughout planning, design, build, and operations - and the voice that carries field insight back to IBM's internal hardware, facility, and product teams.

Hands-on experience with high-reliability critical infrastructure - including chilled water plants and distribution, redundant power systems, and specialized environmental controls in datacenter, manufacturing, or research environments - is a must, as is the ability to work credibly with external technical and executive stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Assess customer and partner datacenters for their ability to host quantum systems - power, cooling, water, floor space, structural and mass-loading capacity, and site constraints - and produce clear site-readiness findings and gap analyses.
  • Translate IBM's quantum datacenter reference architecture into a site-specific installation plan, adapting it to each customer's existing infrastructure rather than a greenfield ideal.
  • Define the facility requirements customers must meet, and advise their engineering and construction teams on how to meet them cost-effectively and on schedule.
  • Review and appraise customer and partner build plans for compliance with IBM reference architecture, applicable codes, and reliability targets.
  • Oversee installation, bring-up, commissioning, and acceptance testing of mechanical, electrical, and cooling systems at customer sites, and validate readiness before quantum hardware comes online.
  • Develop partner-facing playbooks, deployment guides, and runbooks so that hosting an IBM quantum system becomes repeatable across many sites.
  • Serve as the customer's representative within IBM - conveying field constraints, deployment challenges, and optimization opportunities back to internal hardware, facility, and product teams.

About the Company

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International Business Machines Corp

At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1911
WEBSITE
http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/