Technical Lead — Orchestration Control

• Define and own the technical architecture of the orchestration control stack spanning real-time firmware, middleware, networking, and application layers.
• Establish system-level performance specifications including latency budgets, timing precision, throughput targets, and fault-tolerance requirements.
• Design the command, sequencing, and scheduling framework that coordinates arrays of control nodes to execute synchronized operations.
• Lead cross-team technical planning across firmware, infrastructure, and systems engineering; resolve interface conflicts and architectural trade-offs.
• Define and maintain the integration test strategy for the full control stack; own system-level acceptance criteria.
• Drive build-versus-buy decisions for middleware, real-time frameworks, and toolchain components.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing engineering team; conduct architecture reviews, design critiques, and technical retrospectives.
• Manage technical risk identification, mitigation, and escalation; lead root-cause analysis on system-level failures.
• Collaborate with scientists, hardware engineers, and software teams to translate advanced technical requirements into structured control-system specifications.
• Contribute to technical proposals, program planning, and IP documentation.
• Represent Q-Block Computing's control platform in discussions with partners, customers, and government stakeholders as appropriate.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related field; Master's or Ph.D. preferred.
• 10+ years of professional experience in embedded systems, real-time control, or distributed systems engineering, with at least 4 years in a technical leadership role.
• Demonstrated experience shipping production hardware-software systems, not exclusively research prototypes.

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain Government of Canada security clearance, if required for assigned projects.
• Must be eligible to comply with requirements of the Controlled Goods Program, if required for assigned projects.
• Must be willing to participate in background screening, documentation, and compliance processes associated with security-sensitive work.
• Must be capable of operating in security-sensitive development environments and supporting compliance obligations associated with strategic or defense-related programs.

• Expert understanding of real-time systems: deterministic scheduling, latency analysis, hardware-software co-design, and multi-node synchronization.
• Broad technical range spanning embedded firmware, systems programming, networking, and application-layer software.
• Proven ability to lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary engineering teams.
• Experience architecting distributed control or data acquisition systems with strict timing requirements.
• Familiarity with precision timing and frequency-reference systems is highly desirable.
• Experience in quantum technology, photonics, RF systems, defense, aerospace, or scientific instrumentation is strongly preferred.
• Track record of translating ambiguous research-stage requirements into structured engineering roadmaps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfort presenting to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic mindset: ability to balance near-term delivery pressure against long-term architectural integrity.
• Strong attention to detail, authenticity, and a sense of responsibility in all tasks.

• Extended health care benefits (inc. dental and vision)
• Life insurance

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