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Principal Engineer - Classical Cryptography & Architecture

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers,

Company

IonQ

Location

Geneva, Switzerland

Status

Open

Posted

2026-09-19T05:56:10+00:00

IonQ's ID Quantique is hiring a Principal Engineer in Geneva to own the classical cryptography architecture for post-quantum hardware acceleration products used in HSMs and network appliances. The work covers AES/GCM, SHA-2/SHA-3, RSA/ECC offload, entropy, key management, and hybrid classical/PQC schemes with crypto-agility. The posting asks for a Master's or PhD and at least twelve years' cryptography implementation and architecture experience, plus FIPS 140-3 or Common Criteria work and working knowledge of ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA. Fluency in English is required.