The Role
Drive business development for Q-CTRL’s quantum sensing business by generating opportunities, managing leads and customer engagements, expanding existing accounts, building mapping-company partnerships, supporting government proposals, and translating customer needs into product and engineering priorities. The role requires sensor or related hardware sales experience, complex systems expertise, strong technical writing, government business development knowledge, and travel of up to 50%.
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About the team
At Q-CTRL, our Sales & Business Development team supports business growth and client engagements across global markets by identifying and growing new opportunities and capabilities. We bring together bright and ambitious salespeople, positioning us as the leading provider of innovative solutions in quantum computing and quantum sensing. Our team members work closely with Product, Marketing, Design, and Research teams, ensuring customer feedback leads to continuous product improvement.
About the Role
Reporting to the VP of Sales & Business Development, you will be the Business Development Executive for Q-CTRL's Quantum Sensing Team. This role in particular will support our growth by identifying, pursuing, and shaping all future opportunities for the Quantum Sensing Business.
In this role, your focus will be to generate and capture business opportunities. You will develop a deep understanding of the existing and prospective client base, know the current and planned programmatic and technical roadmap, and be cognizant of the current and changing competitive landscape.
You will plan, initiate, and manage continuous engagements with current clients and prospective customers and monitor buying cycles for opportunities. You will support proposals and new customer efforts, including authoring and reviewing RFI, RFP, and other request responses and support the team in closing on new business. Specific emphasis will be placed on candidates that have experience with sensor products, and are familiar with the product lifecycle process from birth to sustainment.
What you'll be doing:
- Grow existing business: You will partner with product managers to identify opportunities for business growth with current clients. This doesn’t just include expanding on current work, but interfacing with existing partners to explore new opportunity areas by sustaining and building on the strong foundation of client relationships.
- Lead Management: You will be doing outreach, routine follow up of all leads and general interaction doing the sales motion.
- Engagement Management: You will work with customers who have purchased evaluation systems and be responsible for customer success.
- Mapping Ecosystem Builder: You will be an ecosystem builder and build and own partnerships with mapping companies.
- Communicate our value to clients: BD team members represent Q-CTRL to a broad audience: clients, partners, competitors, and the interested public. You must project the company’s core principles, conveying insights that illustrate our approach to building next-generation technology and our competitive edges in doing so.
- Inform product development: You will be a liaison between a current or prospective client and the product & engineering organizations, and as such must be able to translate their problem set into an actionable internal plan. You will need to interpret and convey various client needs to the engineering teams, help to inform and manage priorities and execution, keep stakeholders informed, and make sure that performance stays aligned to key milestones.
Ideally you'll have:
- 8+ years of proven strategic sales/BD experience with sensors or related hardware technology space
- Prior experience working at a startup is important, along with being hands on and scrappy
- Expertise in complex engineering systems
- Advanced degree in engineering or related field
- Prior military or contracting experience, or experience in DoD or Government
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Experience with government business development, government contract structures, and government proposal processes
It would be fantastic if you have these skills/experience:
- Demonstrated experience in working in the Sensing space
- Demonstrated strong writing skills, with experience in writing white papers, technical reports, and RFI/RFP responses
- Ability to interface with a wide range of US and international customers
- Bonus would be experience in Navigation and C4ISR
Salary
The targeted base salary range for this position is between $150,000 - $220,000 and will ultimately be determined by specific job-related skills, experience, level, location and other contributing factors. Depending on the position offered, this role may be eligible for annual discretionary bonuses, equity and other forms of compensation outside of the targeted base salary range. For more information on benefits at Q-CTRL, please visit our careers page at https://q-ctrl.com/careers.
Should you have any questions related to the compensation package, please speak directly with the Talent Acquisition representative.
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!
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
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.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of strategic sales or business development experience with sensors or related hardware technology
- Prior startup experience
- Expertise in complex engineering systems
- Advanced degree in engineering or a related field
- Experience with government business development, government contract structures, and government proposal processes
- Ability to travel up to 50%
- Experience working in the sensing space
- Strong writing skills, including white papers, technical reports, and RFI/RFP responses
- Ability to interface with US and international customers
- Experience in navigation and C4ISR
- Prior military, contracting, DoD, or government experience
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The Company
What We Do
We make quantum technology useful for enterprise, government, and research by uniquely addressing the problem of hardware error and instability, entirely through software.
