Engineering Operations Manager

Engineering Operations Manager: QuEra is seeking an Engineering Operations Manager to make execution across software, hardware, test infrastructure, and QPU programs more predictable, visible, and efficient. Reporting to the SVP of Engineering, this person will facilitate the operating system around engineering: planning cadence, cross-team dependency visibility, Jira and Confluence hygiene, release and integration coordination, operational metrics, and follow-through on decisions and action items. The role is designed to give engineering leaders and senior technical staff more time for architecture, technical decisions, team development, and delivery. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role with broad organizational influence. It is not a substitute for technical ownership, product management, engineering management, or infrastructure ownership. Engineering and functional leaders remain accountable for priorities, staffing and resource allocation, architecture, technical acceptance criteria, technical risk acceptance, and release or machine go/no-go decisions. The successful candidate will create the structure that lets those functions work together effectively. What you will own: Facilitate engineering planning and execution Run a consistent planning and review cadence across software, hardware, QPU programs, and test and engineering infrastructure. Translate company and program priorities set by the appropriate leaders into a coherent, capacity-aware engineering plan with named owners, milestones, dependencies, and acceptance criteria supplied or approved by technical owners. Maintain a single, decision-useful view of active initiatives, planned work, critical-path dependencies, risks, and delivery confidence. Facilitate weekly execution reviews, periodic roadmap reviews, release-readiness reviews, and milestone retrospectives. Surface priority or resource conflicts early, document their delivery impact, and bring them to the accountable leader for decision. Track decisions and actions to closure without becoming the priority setter, resource owner, or technical approver. Assist with Jira, Confluence, and GitHub operating discipline Establish and maintain, in partnership with engineering leaders, practical standards for initiative, epic, issue, and release hygiene across engineering Jira projects. Work with technical owners to ensure active work has a clear owner, current status, leadership-approved priority and target, dependency context, and definition of done. Keep Jira roadmaps, Confluence status pages, engineering documentation, and GitHub delivery activity aligned enough to support reliable reporting. Facilitate regular backlog and work-in-progress reviews so accountable leaders can disposition stale, duplicate, unowned, or poorly scoped work. Improve traceability from requirements and engineering decisions through implementation, validation, release, and operational follow-up. Automate…