April 10, 2026 Melissa Kashouh

Q-CTRL – Staff Embedded Software Engineer

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● TALENT ONE MARKET INTELLIGENCE: Q-CTRL

🔥 TALENT LIQUIDITY:
Extremely tight. The intersection of Zynq-RFSoC expertise and quantum-sensing requirements creates a talent pool of fewer than 500 qualified individuals globally.

📈 ALPHA SIGNAL:
Quantum sensing is the next frontier of defense spending. Securing a role here puts you at the center of a multi-billion dollar shift in navigation tech, effectively insulating your mortgage from standard SaaS market volatility.

EST. COMPENSATION
$190k – $240k Base + Equity
SECTOR HEAT
85.9/100
CANDIDATE PROTOCOL: Don’t focus on quantum theory; focus on your ability to stabilize high-speed I/O and real-time data acquisition on Zynq platforms. That is the bottleneck.

Official Role Description: Q-CTRL

About the team
The Sensing Engineering team at Q-CTRL transforms quantum research into deployable technologies that address real-world problems. We design, build, and field-validate an array of quantum sensors that support our key products, including Ironestone Opal – our solution for GPS-denied navigation.   

You don’t need a background in quantum to make an impact here. We value strong engineering fundamentals, a product mindset, and a drive to solve the hardest engineering problems in quantum sensing today.

About the role
We are seeking an Embedded Software Engineer to develop firmware for our control, sensing, and actuation systems that automate the operation of our quantum sensors. You’ll primarily be developing new applications on our Xilinx Zynq (Zynq-7000, MPSoC and RFSoC) + Embedded Linux platform based on requirements developed in collaboration with our research scientists to assist scientific advancement and to demonstrate our technology in the field. Our firmware is characterised by high speed I/O, real-time constraints, data acquisition, signal processing, sequence execution, network communication, and hardware/FPGA interfacing. 
 
You will join a growing team focused on quantum sensing for defence and aerospace, and work with experts in fields such as cold-atom interferometry, magnetometry, and inertial navigation to develop state-of-the-art technology. 

Melissa Kashouh

Founder of Talent One I help enterprise leaders and investors forecast hiring surges, talent shortages, and market friction up to six weeks in advance using our patent-pending predictive intelligence platform. As the founder of Talent One AI (the intelligence layer of The Talent One), I built a system that turns lagging recruiting data into actionable foresight — helping companies reduce technical debt, protect employer brand, and hire ahead of the curve. Based in Providence, Rhode Island.
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