Hybrid Lead Integration Engineer

at Q-CTRL

• Job title: Lead Integration Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Huntsville, United States

About the role

• Lead Integration Engineer managing integration engineering team for quantum sensor prototypes at Q-CTRL. Focusing on development of systems for GPS-denied navigation applications in Huntsville, Alabama.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Huntsville integration engineering team to deliver reliable, field-ready systems for UAS and other platforms.
• This role combines team leadership and hands-on engineering across hardware, software and systems.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Principal Engineers, Technical Leads, and teams in Sydney to integrate and deploy systems on target platforms.
• Plan and execute integration activities and field trials, including equipment preparation, test execution, and data capture.
• Plan and document integration builds, test configurations, results, and anomalies to support traceability and repeatability.
• Establish and improve integration and deployment practices, processes, tools, and testing approaches to support repeatable and efficient execution.
• Lead the team to ensure equipment, consumables, and laboratory environments are maintained to support safe and effective operations.
• Liaise with suppliers and support procurement activities for prototype builds.
• Lead, mentor and support engineers, contributing to a high-performing and accountable team.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in a relevant field of engineering
• Proven experience leading systems engineering, integration, and validation of complex hardware/software systems, ideally within aerospace, defense, or advanced sensing domains
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills and experience working with a variety of stakeholders including technical, commercial, and operational staff including external partners and customers
• Experience leading field trials and flight testing autonomously
• Knowledge of aerospace quality systems, certification and qualification processes
• Knowledge of documentation and configuration management practices, and experience using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence

Benefits

• flexibility
• equity potential
• competitive benefits