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This role bridges strategy and delivery - translating customer requirements and organizational roadmaps into actionable engineering backlogs, driving business development through proposal responses and product demonstrations, and directly advising customers on their cryptographic transition and migration planning. Ability to help build actionable PQC migration roadmaps and action plans tailored to their environment and risk tolerance.\nResponsibilities:\nPartner with the Director to guide development teams in building out PQC product offerings.\nTranslate customer and market requirements into well-defined epics, user stories, and a prioritized development backlog.\nProvide technical oversight to ensure implementations align with NIST PQC standards and sound cryptographic engineering practice.\nContribute technical and market insight to inform PQC offering strategy and roadmap.\nContribute technical responses including solution architecture to BAAs, RFIs, and RFPs.\nGuide customers through PQC transition and migration planning, including cryptographic inventory, risk prioritization, phased migration roadmaps and action plans, orchestration, implementation, and continuous monitoring.\nAssess and communicate cryptographic and key management risk\nAdvise on prioritization frameworks for migration based on data sensitivity, system criticality, and crypto-agility.\nQualifications\nRequired:\nAdvanced Academic Background: BS/MS in Cryptography, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, with a solid working understanding of cryptographic and PQC algorithms.\nFederal Cyber Experience: 3+ years of experience in federal cybersecurity, including direct involvement in NSA/NIST pilots.\nCryptographic Engineering: 5+ years of experience in encryption/secure systems engineering, PKI, and key management solutions, including 2-3 years of hands-on involvement in PQC migration planning or implementation.\nPQC Knowledge: Working knowledge of NIST PQC algorithms (e.g., ML-KEM, ML-DSA) and how key material is generated, distributed, and consumed within cryptographic systems and cryptonets.\nCommunication: Demonstrated ability to communicate technical cryptographic concepts to both engineering teams and executive/business audiences, and to operate effectively across customer organizational levels.\nStrategic Partnering: Proven ability to curate and manage partners for inventorying, distributed key management, software-defined cryptography, and quantum-resistant solutions.\nDesired:\nExperience with distributed key management architectures and crypto-inventory tooling.\nExperience with PQC deployments or PQC implementations in constrained/tactical DoW/IC environments.\nFamiliarity with AI/ML applications in cyber operations or PQC migration tooling.\nPrior experience developing roadmaps, maturity models, or migration playbooks.\nPublications, conference talks, or community contributions in PQC and applied cryptography.\nClearance\nNo clearance required to apply.\nMust be a U.S. citizen and eligible for TS/SCI.\nActive security clearance is a plus.\nLocation\nUS, Remote\nAbout Quantum Sky\nCompensation:\nCompensation is unique to each candidate and relative to the skills and experience they bring to the position. The salary range for this position is typically between $175,000-$215,000. This does not guarantee a specific salary as compensation is based upon multiple factors such as education, experience, certifications, and other requirements, and may fall outside of the above-stated range.\nBenefits:\nHighlights of our benefits include Health/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Paid Time Off, STD/LTD/Life Insurance, Referral Bonuses, professional development reimbursement, and parental leave.\nThe world the mission operates in is going post-quantum, contested, and machine-speed. Quantum Sky engineers the advantage across cyber, networks, software, and quantum because the mission demands dominance, not parity. We don't follow the map. We draw it.\nAt Quantum Sky, we believe that success starts with our people. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and mission-driven environment where every team member plays a critical role in shaping the future of technology. 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