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Founded at Lancaster University in 2015 by Professor Robert Young, we have spent a decade solving a problem the security industry had accepted as unsolvable: authentication that is impossible to copy, clone or fake, yet simple enough for anyone to use.\nOur core technology, Q-ID®, is an authentication fingerprint built on quantum physics that anyone can authenticate in under three seconds with the smartphone already in their pocket. Impossibly simple. Atomically secure.\nQ-ID® is protected by more than 40 patents, has undergone independent adversarial testing, and is already protecting around two billion products worldwide across tax stamps, pharmaceuticals, alcohol, luxury goods, FMCG, automotive, aerospace, secure documents and more. We work with printers and brands to make quantum technology practical and accessible for any product, anywhere in the world.\nQuantum Base is headquartered in Lancaster and listed on the London Stock Exchange (LON: QUBE) in 2025. See Q-ID® in action: https://www.quantumbase.com/how-q-id-works\nAbout the Role\nMobile is the front door to the Q-ID. Every authentication, whether it’s a customs officer scanning a tax stamp, a partner embedding Q-ID verification into their own app, or a consumer checking a product is genuine, happens on a smartphone. These authentications happen in variable real-world conditions, on a wide range of devices. We are looking for a hands-on engineering leader to own that surface end-to-end.\nThe Lead Mobile Engineer will be responsible for leading and managing the mobile engineering team, with a tech stack spanning (in order of importance):\nNative iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, AVFoundation, Core ML, Vision)\nNative Android (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, CameraX, ML Kit, TensorFlow Lite)\nComputer vision and on-device ML for Q-ID authentication\nMobile SDK design and distribution, for partners embedding Q-ID into their own apps\nCross platform integrations like .NET MAUI\nIntegration with our AWS verification APIs\nThis is a senior leadership position for someone who is still in the code day-to-day. Q-ID authentication is a computer-vision problem running on a consumer device in unpredictable lighting, on substrates ranging from paper tax stamps to gold blister packs. Small mobile improvements (scan speed, false-reject rate, camera handling) have outsized commercial impact and are often the difference between winning and losing a customer. The role is varied and includes:\nStrategic Leadership\nOwn the technical direction for mobile at Quantum Base.\nHelp define roadmaps that align with the commercial pipeline .\nSet the bar for scan performance, reliability and device coverage.\nBuild a culture of fast iteration, measured against real scan data, not just unit tests.\nEncourage the use of modern best practices and AI tooling\nTeam Management\nLead, mentor and grow the mobile engineering team.\nRecruit and retain strong mobile talent; build a team that is comfortable working alongside physicists, mathematicians and ML specialists.\nPartner closely with the cloud team, R&D team and the commercial team.\nTechnical Oversight\nBe hands-on across complex mobile problems - camera pipelines, image preprocessing, on-device inference, SDK packaging, app-store release engineering.\nRaise the engineering bar on code quality, automated testing (including on-device and real-substrate testing), CI/CD for mobile, crash and performance monitoring.\nOwn the mobile SDK contract with partners.\nWork with product, design, algorithms and customer implementation to turn scan performance requirements into shippable releases.\nRepresent mobile in customer-facing technical conversations, including with security printers and government programmes where reliability expectations are high.\nKey Experience\n8+ years in mobile software engineering, with at least 3 years leading teams.\nDeep, hands-on expertise in both native iOS (Swift) and native Android (Kotlin).\nExperience with camera, computer vision and on-device ML on mobile (Core ML / Vision / ML Kit / TensorFlow Lite, or equivalent).\nExperience designing and shipping a mobile SDK consumed by third-party developers.\nStrong engineering fundamentals (SOLID, TDD, clean architecture) and a pragmatic view of when to apply them.\nSolid understanding of Agile and DevOps practices as they apply to mobile (CI/CD, release trains, staged rollouts, crash and performance analytics).\nTrack record of working with cloud-backed mobile products and integrating with REST APIs on AWS or equivalent.\nExcellent communication and leadership skills, and comfort in front of customers.\nExpert with modern AI tooling\nNice to have experience\nA background in science, especially physics or mathematics.\nBackground in computer vision, image processing or applied ML.\nBenefits\nWe're continually updating and improving our benefits. 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