Quantum Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Characterizing experimental devices, assessing their performance, identifying areas for improvement, and providing feedback to internal development teams.
• Providing technical focus and leadership on a particular R&D topic, which could include gate calibration, qubit relaxation and/or dephasing, piloting new research ideas in small processors, integration of new ideas into large processors, or implementation of quantum error correction.
• Collaborating across diverse teams of expert engineers (fab, design, electronics, software, etc.) to turn experimental concepts into robust technologies that work at large QPU scales.
• Staying current with cutting-edge research, synthesizing results from the literature, and implementing state-of-the-art calibration, error diagnostic, and system optimization techniques to enhance device performance.

Required Qualifications

• PhD in Physics or similar applied scientific field, or Masters’ in Physics with 2+ years relevant industry experience.
• Demonstrated abilities in experimental problem solving and experimental research.
• Expertise in the practical implementation of coherent quantum effects and control.
• Proficiency using Python in a scientific context.
• Ability to thrive in a strongly collaborative environment, with a team-first mindset.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience calibrating and characterizing single- and two-qubit quantum gates in superconducting quantum devices.
• Experience utilizing quantum simulation frameworks, such as QuTip.
• Proven capability to execute and effectively communicate outcomes from innovative research and development initiatives.
• Software development experience in a collaborative industry setting.
• Previous technical role in an industrial or startup setting.