Lead Integration Engineer

Q-Ctrl•Huntsville, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sensing Engineering team at Q-CTRL transforms quantum research into deployable technologies, designing, building, and field-validating quantum sensors that support key products like Ironestone Opal for GPS-denied navigation. The company is seeking a Lead Integration Engineer to establish and lead the Integration Engineering team within its Sensing division, based in Huntsville, Alabama. This role involves defining the integration strategy for new quantum sensor prototypes and products, contributing to the development of software-ruggedised quantum gravimeters, accelerometers, and magnetometers for GPS-denied navigation applications. As the Lead Integration Engineer, you will be responsible for the engineering strategy and implementation for Q-CTRL’s quantum navigation products, ensuring complex hardware and software subsystems operate together. This includes defining engineering standards, processes, and documentation to support scalable development and meet performance and reliability targets. This is a hands-on technical and people leadership role, encompassing planning, execution, oversight, and team mentorship. You will collaborate closely with engineers and scientists to manage the integration of subsystems across electronics, optics, mechanics, and software, and validate complete systems in both lab and field environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading in relevant mission-critical industries, such as aerospace, and a passion for developing real-world technology.

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 documentation and configuration management practices, and experience using collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Nice To Haves

Aerospace industry experience and recognized qualifications will be highly regarded.
Knowledge of aerospace quality systems, certification and qualification processes.

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.
Other duties within the Employee’s skills and experience, or with reasonable training