QURECA and QuantrolOx have partnered to address the biggest constraint on quantum’s industrial scale-up, a global shortage of engineers with hands-on experience in developing and operating the quantum hardware stack.
The partnership brings Quantum EDGE Academy into the QURECA catalogue. Built on QuantrolOx’s Quantum EDGE measurement and automation platform, the Academy uses software workflows similar to those used by QuantrolOx engineers to automate QPU development, tuning, characterisation and system operation for hardware teams internationally.
The two partners noted that universities are producing capable quantum theorists, but laboratories and companies increasingly need a broader practical workforce — engineers, technicians, and experimentalists who can operate dilution refrigerators, fabricate devices, develop components, measure qubits, and troubleshoot complex hardware setups.
This skill has historically been built over years of PhD and postdoctoral apprenticeship inside a limited number of research groups.
Online quantum literacy courses have widened access to the concepts, but they have not widened access to practical laboratory training. Lab time remains essential, but it is expensive, scarce, and difficult to scale with the number of people the industry needs.
The two partners added that the gap slows down every lab, every startup and every national programme it touches.
“You can install the hardware in eighteen months; you cannot conjure an experienced experimentalist in eighteen months,” said Dominic Lennon, director of product at QuantrolOx.
“Quantum EDGE Academy is how we close that gap at the pace the industry actually needs, not by writing a training curriculum from the outside, but by teaching the exact workflows our engineers run on live hardware every day,” said Lennon.
Most quantum education today – including QURECA’s existing catalogue – teaches concepts such as superposition, entanglement, and algorithms. That is necessary and valuable, and at school and early-career level it builds the broad pipeline the industry needs.
Quantum EDGE Academy sits one layer deeper. It teaches the practical quantum hardware skills using the same measurement and automation platform QuantrolOx’s engineers run on operating quantum hardware today. Like a flight simulator, it lets learners build real competence in a realistic environment before they touch fragile, expensive systems.
With hardware access scarce and mentor time even scarcer, the Academy acts as a bridge: increasing training throughput, reducing costly mistakes, and lowering the supervision burden. As the industry moves from lab to fab, it is designed to become part of any serious quantum workforce programme.
Courses carry Continuing Professional Development (CPD) certification through QURECA.
The programme is offered to universities through flexible commercial models, including per-seat cohort pricing and departmental subscriptions, so institutions can scale participation without a large upfront commitment.
“It’s [the Academy] a genuinely innovative approach to quantum education, giving learners real laboratory intuition without needing lab access, and exactly the kind of practical training our network has been asking for,” said Araceli Venegas-Gomez, CEO and founder of QURECA.
For this collaboration, QuantrolOx contributes Quantum EDGE Academy, built on Quantum EDGE — the automation and measurement platform used by teams industrialising quantum technologies worldwide.
QURECA contributes a global reputation in quantum education, a catalogue of over 40 CPD-certified courses, and an established network across universities, research institutions and industry spanning Europe, North America, Latin America and India.
