Quantum Security Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Quantum Security Lead. Location: Yorktown Heights, New York, United States

The position is based in the United States and reports to the T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a security team focused on protecting quantum and hybrid cloud systems.
• Build and maintain secure cloud and on-prem architectures.
• Run risk management, threat modelling, and network security work;
• Oversee compliance with internal policies, standards, and regulatory frameworks.
• Manage secure development lifecycle practices, including code reviews and security testing.
• Handle vulnerability management and guide the team on fixing risks.
• Lead incident investigations, response, and post-incident analysis.
• Manage data privacy, encryption, and identity and access management;
• Set security policies for the quantum group and work closely with the CISO team.
• Coordinate tasks across the security team, guide technical direction, and ensure milestones are met.
• Work with development, operations, and other internal groups to embed security into the full product lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 5 years of experience in software security, network security, ethical hacking, cybersecurity, identity and access management, or related fields.
• Strong knowledge of network security, application security, IAM, data encryption, vulnerability management, threat modelling, privacy, and incident response.
• Hands-on work with security tools for monitoring, logging, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, IDS, and firewall management;
• Skilled in cloud security, cloud storage, network setups, container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and cloud-based identity systems.
• Experience working in DevSecOps or secure software development lifecycle environments;
• Ability to lead incident response and forensic analysis after security events.
• Strong communication skills to work with cross-functional teams and explain risks to technical and non-technical groups.

Preferred:

• Experience with security needs in quantum computing environments.
• Familiarity with IBM QRadar.
• Experience securing IBM Cloud environments;
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2, FEDRAMP, and industry-specific regulations.

About the Business Unit:

IBM Research builds new technologies for IBM, partners, and clients; The team works at the intersection of high performance computing, AI, and quantum computing to solve complex problems and create new markets; The mission is to explore what comes next in computing and move toward practical, large-scale quantum computing.