Steve Sanders

Steve Sanders is Senior Director for hardware technology development at Quantinuum in Broomfield, Colorado. Steve has been with Quantinuum since early 2018, leading a quantum computing research and development effort across a broad swath of engineering and physics disciplines. Today the Quantinuum team is rapidly pushing the state of the art in trapped-ion technology, demonstrating a trapped-ion quantum charge coupled device (QCCD) architecture within both their commercial and R&D quantum processors. Prior to joining Quantinuum’s predecessor organization, Honeywell Quantum Solutions, Steve worked at Honeywell since 1998 as a research scientist in optical sensors, where he led groups designing fiber-optic gyroscopes, inertial measurement units, and celestial navigation systems for high-performance guidance and navigation. Products of his design are currently operating at sea and in space. Steve holds a B.S. in engineering physics from U.C. Berkeley and a PhD in plasma physics from Caltech.