This hands-on role will translate product and technology priorities into a focused portfolio of hardware development, integration, validation, benchmarking, and deployment initiatives across DOE, NIST, DoD, the national laboratories, defense laboratories, federally funded research and development centers, and other U.S. government organizations. Shape joint hardware programs covering processor architecture, qubit modalities, control systems, cryogenics, packaging, interconnects, calibration, error characterization, modularity, scalability, reliability, and hybrid quantum-classical integration.