Job DescriptionTechnical Lead - Orchestration Control to join our innovative team in Canada. This is a senior technical leadership role responsible for the end-to-end real-time control stack that drives advanced hardware platforms. The candidate will own the technical vision, execution roadmap, and delivery of the orchestration layer that coordinates firmware, infrastructure, and systems engineering into a unified and scalable control plane.
Job SummaryAs Technical Lead - Orchestration Control, you will serve as the principal technical authority for the control stack, reporting to senior leadership. Job duties include defining orchestration architecture, coordinating across firmware and infrastructure engineering teams, establishing system-level performance requirements, and ensuring that the full control stack delivers deterministic and reliable operation at scale.
Responsibilities- 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.
Qualification- 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.
Security and Compliance Requirements- 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.
Skills- 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.
Benefits- Extended health care benefits (inc. dental and vision)
- Life insurance
