QNu Labs
Website:
qnulabs.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/qunu-labs-pvt-ltd
Industries: Computer and Network Security
Job details:
🚀 We're Hiring: Head of Hardware Engineering
Centers of Excellence & Strategic Programs | QNu Labs
📍 Bengaluru | Reports to Senior VP – Innovation
QNu Labs is India's pioneering quantum-security company — building quantum key distribution, quantum random number generation, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing into products that protect data against the quantum threat. We are scaling our senior technical leadership and looking for exceptional people to lead our Centres of Excellence and strategic programmes.
🎯 THE MISSION
Own the electronic and electro-optic hardware that turns our quantum-security designs into manufacturable, field-deployable products — from board architecture and firmware through integration, qualification and production hand-off. You turn physics into hardware that ships.
🔧 CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
▪ Own hardware architecture across the product portfolio — secure-communication transmitters and receivers, random-number modules and security appliances
▪ Lead the digital/FPGA design effort and the high-speed analog and mixed-signal front-ends that interface with optics and detectors
▪ Drive design-for-manufacture, EMC, thermal and signal-integrity qualification, and reliability testing through to certification
▪ Build and lead the hardware team, and own vendor relationships, BoM cost and production transfer to manufacturing partners
▪ Partner with the physics, silicon and software teams to close the loop from component to fielded system
▪ Set the hardware roadmap and the engineering standards the team builds to
💡 SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
We care more about depth, curiosity and leadership than a checklist — if you are strong in most of the below and excited by the rest, we want to hear from you.
▪ Digital / FPGA design: RTL design and verification on modern FPGA/SoC platforms, high-speed interfaces and timing closure. Deep low-noise or high-speed digital experience from any domain transfers well
▪ Analog & mixed-signal: high-speed and low-noise front-ends — amplifiers, data converters, driver and detection circuits. Precision-instrumentation or RF backgrounds are a strong fit
▪ Board & system integration: PCB design, signal and power integrity, EMC, and bringing a multi-board system from prototype to qualified product
▪ Productisation: design-for-manufacture and test, environmental qualification, and BoM and supply-chain management
▪ Electro-optic interfacing (a plus): drive electronics for modulators and detectors — valuable, but we will support the right candidate in coming up the optics learning curve
▪ Leadership: leading multidisciplinary hardware teams and delivering against demanding government and commercial milestones
⭐ GOOD TO HAVE — LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
▪ Project management: multi-workstream technical programs against government and commercial milestones; risk, dependency and schedule management; stage-gate / TRL-based delivery
▪ Product management: turning customer and stakeholder needs into requirements and roadmaps, balancing technical, cost and time-to-market trade-offs
▪ People leadership: hiring, mentoring and growing a high-calibre team; building a first-principles engineering culture
▪ Stakeholder engagement: engaging government, academic and industry partners, and representing QNu in technical reviews and tenders
▪ Communication: clear technical decks and documents for expert and non-expert audiences, confident presenting to evaluators, customers and leadership
▪ Funding & proposals: supporting grant, tender and funding submissions including technical write-ups and budget justification
🌟 WHY JOIN QNU LABS
✅ Build something that matters — lead work that defends national data and critical infrastructure against the quantum threat. Not incremental features, but capability that did not exist before.
✅ International working environment — collaborate across Bengaluru, Austin and Sydney, with global foundries, academic groups and standards bodies. Your work is judged at the international frontier.
✅ Assured patent track — a structured invention-disclosure and filing programme means your novel work is captured, protected and credited. Build a personal patent portfolio.
✅ Publications & journals — we back you to publish in leading journals, present at conferences and shape standards.
✅ Government & nationally critical projects — work directly on strategic, nation-scale programmes with marquee government and defence stakeholders. High-trust, high-impact, genuinely rare to access.
✅ Real ownership & a first-principles culture — own your domain end to end, lead a high-calibre team, in a derivation-first culture that prizes understanding the physics, not just shipping the board.
✅ Grow as a leader — shape a Centre of Excellence from the ground up, hire your own team, with real strategic visibility and a clear path to grow with a fast-moving deep-tech company.
🔮 Ready to build the quantum-safe future?
We welcome candidates from across India and around the world, and from adjacent fields who are hungry to move into quantum.
📩 Apply with your CV and a short note on a hard technical problem you are proud of solving.
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