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🐺 From 28 to 47 open SD roles in 12 weeks. Monarch Quantum is on a tear.

Monarch Quantum's hiring surge, Carlsmed's Q2 earnings jump, and Euler's $4.3M seed.

September 15, 2026

Monarch Quantum had 28 open roles when we featured them 12 weeks ago. Today they have 47 in San Diego.

Plus Carlsmed posted an $18.9M quarter (+57% YoY) and just got a favorable CMS reimbursement ruling. And Euler, a San Diego-founded SaaS company, just closed a $4.3M seed after growing 600% last year.

Howl yeah, let's dive in.

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Quantum Light Engines for the companies building real quantum hardware. Customers include Quantinuum, Infleqtion, and NASA. Salary transparency on every listing.

Why they matter:

Dr. Timothy Day is a serial founder. Before Monarch, he co-founded New Focus and Daylight Solutions. He knows how to build hardware companies out of San Diego.

  • Dr. Day spoke at the White House Summit on American Quantum Innovation in July.

  • In August, Monarch announced a partnership with Qunnect to commercialize deployable quantum networking, extending their Carina Quantum Light Engine platform.

  • $55M growth round closed March 2026. Total capital and contracts exceed $115M.

  • Customers include Quantinuum, Infleqtion (NYSE: INFQ), and NASA JPL, who selected Monarch's Quantum Light Engines for the first planned space deployment of a quantum gravity gradiometer.

Open roles across:

  • Photonics Engineering (Optics, Lasers, Opto-mech, Reliability)

  • Electrical Engineering (multiple levels)

  • Firmware and Software

  • Mechanical and Quantum Systems

  • Program Management and Operations

AI-designed, 3D-printed personalized spine implants. Publicly traded on NASDAQ (CARL). Q2 2026 revenue $18.9M, up 57% year over year.

Why they matter:

Spine surgery has a precision problem. Carlsmed's aprevo platform uses AI to design a custom titanium implant for each patient's spine, then 3D-prints it for surgery. Published clinical data shows a 74% reduction in reoperations.

  • Q2 2026 revenue $18.9M, up 57% year over year. Gross margin 76.8%. Surgeon user base up 60% YoY.

  • CMS created three new MS-DRGs with favorable reimbursement for aprevo Lumbar in early August, effective October 1.

  • Two new products launching in the second half of 2026: aprevo Bilateral and the Corra Cervical Plating System.

Founded 2018 by CEO Mike Cordonnier. HQ in Carlsbad.

Open roles across:

  • Engineering (Principal Software Architect, Sr. Backend Engineer)

  • Design (Sr. UI/UX Designer)

  • Quality (QA Specialist)

  • Operations (Sr. Operations Specialist)

  • Marketing, Finance, IT

Euler - 16 Open Roles (Remote, SD-HQ)

AI-native Partner Relationship Management (PRM) platform. Grew 600% last year. Just closed a $4.3M seed round led by Channel Equity Partners.

Why they matter:

Partnerships drive 30-50% of company revenue for B2B SaaS. Most teams still run them on spreadsheets and outdated CRMs.

Euler built the AI-native alternative. Their platform automates partner onboarding, training, enablement, deal registration, attribution, and support. Customers include Gong, BambooHR, Zip, and BigCommerce.

  • $4.3M seed closed August 24, 2026, led by Channel Equity Partners (a partnerships-focused fund).

  • Grew 600% last year (per their careers page).

  • 100,000+ partnerships managed across the customer base (per company press).

  • First institutional capital after years of profitable growth.

Founded and led by CEO Greg Portnoy, who is San Diego-based and serves as the San Diego Chapter Head for Partnership Leaders. Prior partnerships roles at Oracle, Attentive, and LiveRecover.

Open roles across:

  • Engineering (Data, QA, Senior Full Stack, Software)

  • Product and Design (Director of Product, Director of UX/UI, GTM Graphic Designer)

  • Sales (Account Executive, Founding Sales Engineer, Sales Director)

  • Marketing (Director of Marketing, Founding Product Marketing Manager)

  • Customer Experience (CSM, Director of CS, Onboarding Manager)

  • Support (Technical Writer)

Also worth knowing

Automated insulin delivery for insulin-pen users. Their CEO built it because he needs it.

CEO John Sjölund is Type 1 himself and previously founded Timesulin. Co-founder Sean Saint led Companion Medical, whose InPen was acquired by Medtronic in 2020.

Recent momentum: $23.6M Series A led by Vensana Capital (August 2025), with Ascensia, Winklevoss Capital, and Swiss Diabetes Venture Fund. Running AID4MDI, the first pivotal closed-loop AID study for insulin-pen users.

Hiring a Director of Software and a Sr Quality Engineer in San Diego.

Bionic hand company that started at UIUC and now calls San Diego home.

Founded 2015 by Dr. Aadeel Akhtar. Ability Hand is the first bionic hand with touch feedback. Now partnering with ABB Robotics to bring humanlike dexterity to factory robots.

Hiring an Applications Support Engineer and an Applications Development Engineer: Robotic Simulations in San Diego.

Still on the Radar

Three companies from last week still hiring and worth your time:

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Howl yeah,

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