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This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of cutting-edge quantum technologies in sensing, communication, and computation. The candidate will join Q-Block Computing to design, develop, and maintain the distributed IT infrastructure stack that connects quantum control hardware across a layered network of embedded compute nodes and managed Ethernet environments.\nJob Summary\nAs an Information Systems Specialist on the Q-Stack Infrastructure team, you will collaborate with other team members and achieve technical milestones under the guidance of the Technical Team Lead. Job duties include the design, development, and implementation of embedded Linux platforms on ARM-based compute modules, multi-tier local area network architectures with per-layer network services, and a web-based management application used to monitor and command arrays of quantum control hardware. 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