Quantum Application Scientist Team Lead

Your Mission:

We are seeking a Team Lead for Quantum Application Science to act as the strategic bridge between our customers' groundbreaking experiments and our cutting-edge control stack. If you combine a passion for quantum with a passion for people — this role is for you!

You will lead a team of talented Quantum Application Scientists, providing the clarity, structure, and coaching needed to help them thrive. By deeply understanding the problems our customers are striving to solve and serving as their ultimate advocate internally, you and your team will help them achieve transformative progress in quantum technology. Crucially, you will act as the connective tissue between departments, serving as a true partner to our R&D and Sales teams to align our scientific capabilities with market needs.

• Coach and Develop: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of Application Scientists. Coaching and team development are top priorities. This means building individual development plans, having performance conversations, and creating career pathways for scientists, continuously raising the bar.
• Provide Clarity and Alignment: Bring structure to the team’s operations and align your team around shared company goals. You will set clear expectations, run a disciplined operating rhythm, and make sure everyone knows what good looks like — not just what to do next.
• Prioritize Relentlessly: Cut through the noise and help your team focus on what matters most. With customers pulling in multiple directions and R&D capacity always finite, your ability to triage, say no diplomatically, and protect your team’s bandwidth is as valuable as any technical skill you bring.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a key technical partner to the Sales team — equipping the team with the language, materials, and confidence to position Qblox effectively. This includes leading or supporting high-stakes demos, contributing to competitive positioning, and helping the team qualify opportunities early so effort goes where it counts. You can explain a complex RF bottleneck to a salesperson and make them feel like they actually understood it.
• Be the Voice of the Customer: Work directly with advanced customers to understand their needs at a deep technical level. You will advocate for their requirements internally and ensure a seamless technical fit between the experiments they are running and our control stack. When you visit a customer site, they come away feeling they learned something — that is the bar.
• Own R&D feedback loop: Synthesize and prioritize customer feedback into structured, actionable product input — acting as a filter, not just a relay, between field signal and R&D roadmap decisions. When customer requests conflict, you resolve the ambiguity before it reaches R&D. When patterns emerge across accounts, you surface them as strategic signals rather than noise. This is not a passive information-passing role.