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NISQ Application Research Scientist – Quantum AI

NISQ Application Research Scientist – Quantum AI

CompanyGoogle
LocationGoleta, CA, USA
Salary$141000 – $202000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesPhD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • PhD in Physics, Quantum Information Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.

Responsibilities

  • Design protocols for simulations of many-body quantum phenomena on noisy intermediate scale and early fault-tolerant quantum computers.
  • Provide theoretical and modeling support for algorithms experiments on Google’s quantum computers.
  • Design and optimize protocols for error mitigation and early error correction.
  • Communicate scientific results through peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2 years of experience in Python.
  • Experience in high-performance scientific computation.
  • Experience using Trotter methods for simulating quantum systems.
  • Experience in simulating strongly-correlated quantum systems (e.g. strongly-correlated spin systems).
  • Knowledge of error mitigation techniques for noisy quantum computation.
  • One or more scientific publications in collaboration with experimental quantum scientists.

Benefits