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title: 'Product Manager - Sensing at Q-CTRL'
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# Product Manager - Sensing at Q-CTRL

- **Company:** Q-CTRL
- **Location:** Sydney, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/q-ctrl/fd79db6d-8a53-4fc8-a518-b50441613e0c

## Job description

## About the team

At Q-CTRL, the Product team is at the forefront of shaping the future of quantum technology, pioneering the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. We steward the product portfolio that transforms groundbreaking research into software solutions that drive real-world impact. The product team collaborates with brilliant minds across research, engineering, design, marketing, and sales, bringing disciplines together to achieve breakthroughs that make quantum technologies useful for our customers today.

## About the role

Reporting to the Head of Product, we’re looking for a Product Manager - Sensing to lead, own and launch a new product area leveraging our quantum sensing capabilities. You’ll be a part of our world leading product team working closely with our key stakeholders across: quantum sensing & research, engineering, design and marketing.

What you'll be doing:

- Own the Problem: Own the problem space, along with the opportunity and agency to solve challenges. You’re unafraid of the unknown, willing to be adaptable and versatile, and maintain a figure-it-out mindset.
- Bring Teams Together: Drive product development, roadmaps, and go-to-market strategy with world-class engineers, designers, and marketers while upholding world-class development process and craft.
- Outcomes over Output: Proactively iterate on features based on customer data, feedback, and technology and market trends, evolving the product and optimising for customer impact and the potential of the development team.
- Build for Scale: Leverage expertise in product technology stacks, software and hardware, to inform and guide development teams to build platform features at scale.

Ideally you'll have:

- 2+ years of product management in quantum sensing, navigation, aerospace, defense, or related industry experience
- Experience identifying market opportunities, identifying customer needs, and executing on product roadmaps in the context of broader organisational strategies and goals
- Familiarity with crewed and uncrewed platforms in aviation (UAS/UAV) and maritime (USV, UUV, AUV).
- Experience going through a full product development lifecycle across hardware and software including qualification, certification, and manufacturing, integrating customer and internal feedback into product requirements, driving prioritisation and pre/post-launch execution
- Business development experience with a network of sensing companies and hardware suppliers.
- Ability to understand, translate and communicate scientific and technology based concepts of emerging technologies to relevant partners and customers, and identify pathways to product and new features
- Comfortable with creating technical presentations, and independently researching, organising, and writing SoWs and research contract proposals. Familiar with proposal requirements and strategies
- Accustomed to working in a technical environment with a broad, cross functional team, often with a lot of uncertainty, to align the team and execute towards key milestones

It would be fantastic if you have these skills/experience:

- Exposure to export controls or experience developing products to various standards or regulations. Ideal previous experience includes DO-160/178/254, MIL-STD-810/461, RoHS/REACH, etc.
- Familiarity with mining, geology, aerospace, defence and government sectors (as examples)
- Australian NV2 security clearance

## About Q-CTRL

Q-CTRL is the global leader in AI-powered quantum control infrastructure software. We build the tools that make quantum technology useful, solving the hardest challenges in quantum computing and quantum sensing to deliver real-world impact.

Founded in 2017, we operate globally with offices in Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Huntsville, Berlin, and Oxford. Our teams bring together technical and multi-disciplinary expertise across the product lifecycle, and we’re hiring talent to help scale every part of the business. We work quickly to turn cutting-edge science into deployable technology.

In 2024 we raised US$113 million in Series B funding, the largest aggregate investment for a quantum software company. Six months later we delivered the first commercial quantum advantage with Ironstone Opal, our field-validated quantum navigation solution for defense and industry.

At Q-CTRL, we prioritize outcomes over hours. We offer flexibility, equity potential, and competitive benefits that reflect our high-performance culture. If you’re ready to help shape the future of quantum, we’d love to hear from you!

Please be advised that our communications will only come from the @q-ctrl.com domain. All our active job postings are available on our company website.

To recruitment agencies, we do not accept unsolicited branded profiles and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

## About Q-CTRL

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Q-CTRL builds AI-powered infrastructure software to make quantum technology useful today, delivering performance gains in quantum computing and quantum sensing for enterprise, government, and defense.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately held; $133M total funding across 12 rounds, including seed and venture rounds)
- **Headquarters**: Sydney, Australia
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Quantum technology infrastructure software, AI-for-quantum, quantum computing and quantum sensing
- **Target customers**: Enterprise and government organizations, data center and HPC providers, defense and aerospace, learners and researchers (B2B, B2G)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “We make quantum technology useful” – bridging the gap between quantum hardware and real-world applications through AI-driven control software.

## Products & Services
- **Boulder Opal**: AI-powered quantum computing infrastructure software that provides error suppression, automated calibration, performance management, and compilation tools to maximize qubit utility.
- **Ironstone Opal**: Quantum sensing solutions for GPS-denied navigation, delivering the first true quantum advantage in real-world navigation scenarios.
- **Educational & Workforce Tools**: Interactive learning platforms and professional toolkits for students, researchers, and hardware teams to upskill and accelerate quantum adoption.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $5M (LinkedIn estimate); total funding of $133M (as of latest rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Horizons Ventures, Main Sequence Ventures, DCVC, HSG, IQT (led various rounds)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 176 employees (+36.7% YoY); LinkedIn followers 30,064 (+40.3% yearly); global expansion to six offices (Sydney, Santa Monica, Huntsville, Oxford, San Francisco, Berlin); multiple open positions across engineering, research, product, and sales.

## Competitive Advantages
- Unique AI-for-quantum approach that directly addresses hardware error and instability – the toughest problems in quantum technology.
- Proven world records in quantum computer performance and first demonstration of quantum advantage in GPS-free navigation.
- Deep expertise in quantum control, compilation, and error correction, combined with proprietary infrastructure software that no competitor replicates.
- Strong government and defense relationships, with solutions tailored for the most demanding environments.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale adoption of quantum computing and sensing across enterprise and government by making the technology useful today.
- Continue to invest in AI-driven automation and compilation to lower barriers for non-experts.
- Expand into data center and HPC integration, providing pre-validated architectures for seamless quantum utility.
- Grow workforce and global footprint to meet increasing demand from defense, aerospace, and research sectors.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Multidisciplinary teams united by curiosity and ambition; collaborative environment focused on real-world impact; strong emphasis on personal development and career growth.
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Hybrid model (e.g., roles in Los Angeles, San Francisco listed as hybrid); flexible workplace policies; offices in six cities across three continents.
- **Notable perks**: Highly competitive, innovative, and inclusive benefits; comprehensive personal development programs; streamlined interview process with technical discussions and cross-functional collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Work on cutting-edge quantum control, AI, and infrastructure software; teams span engineering, research, product, and design.
- **Employer rating**: 4.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (15 reviews), with 4.9 for work-life balance and culture, 4.6 for compensation, 4.7 for career opportunities.

## Sources
1. [q-ctrl.com](https://q-ctrl.com/) – Company overview and product descriptions
2. [q-ctrl.com/careers](https://q-ctrl.com/careers) – Careers page, culture, interview process, locations
3. [q-ctrl.com/about](https://q-ctrl.com/about) – About page, AI-for-quantum focus
4. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/q-ctrl) – Open positions (Senior Software Engineer, Scientist, etc.)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/q-ctrl) – Company details, revenue, funding, headcount, reviews

## Other roles at Q-CTRL

- [Director of US Government Engagement](https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-us-government-engagement-q-ctrl-washington-raqqdx0q8fx9) — Washington, DC
- [Staff Research Scientist — Quantum Algorithms & Fault-Tolerant Applications](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-research-scientist-quantum-algorithms-fault-tolerant-applications-q-ctrl-6nb5s7jyk4g9) — Los Angeles, CA
- [Senior Scientist, Quantum Sensing (Modeling and Control)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-scientist-quantum-sensing-modeling-and-control-q-ctrl-sydney-qhh5h4xt93fq) — Sydney, Australia
- [Senior Cloud Platform Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-cloud-platform-engineer-q-ctrl-los-angeles-94rsh6dmsjb3) — Los Angeles, CA
- [Business Development Executive, Quantum Sensing](https://feeny.ai/job/business-development-executive-quantum-sensing-q-ctrl-los-angeles-nshhtvvdw724) — Los Angeles, CA
- [Senior Research Scientist, Quantum Error Correction](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-research-scientist-quantum-error-correction-q-ctrl-los-angeles-d4mwrrfyh1t9) — Los Angeles, CA
- [Financial Accountant](https://feeny.ai/job/financial-accountant-q-ctrl-sydney-m0az4dd2aaqe) — Sydney, Australia
- [Global Tax Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/global-tax-manager-q-ctrl-sydney-7tyzq9w54epz) — Sydney, Australia
- [Staff Experimental Scientist](https://feeny.ai/job/staff-experimental-scientist-q-ctrl-sydney-72vn4wkm7ycv) — Sydney, Australia
- [Senior Embedded Software Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-embedded-software-engineer-q-ctrl-sydney-38qa5cv26wea) — Sydney, Australia