Quantum Scientist and Error Correction Specialist

About the role

The Opportunity: Are you driven by the challenge of pushing quantum technology to its next frontier? Do you thrive at the intersection of deep science, creative engineering, and mission-focused innovation? If you’re excited to turn groundbreaking theory into practical capability, we have an opportunity that aligns with your passion.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize fault-tolerant protocols compatible under realistic architectural constraints.
• Analyze and improve qubit connectivity in a reconfigurable architecture and exploit transversal and blockwise operations to improve performance and reduce computational time.
• Design logical-gate implementations such as Clifford & non-Clifford and teleportation-based gates in a highly modular architecture.
• Compare magic-state preparation methods, magic-state scheduling, and inventory management.
• Collaborate with atomic and solid-state physicists to determine implementation constraints and resource optimization pathways.
• Map QEC scheduling constraints onto architectural layout, minimizing noisy operations, and reducing QEC's temporal overhead.
• Co-design logical decoder requirements with embedded firmware and control-electronics teams supporting fast, low-latency operations.
• Contribute to the logical-level Verification and Validation (V&V) pipeline.
• Collaborate with modeling and simulation experts to integrate noise models into QEC protocols and determine fault-tolerance requirements and logical-level performance.
• Collaborate with software developers to integrate QEC models and decoders into Booz Allen’s quantum software stack.
• Support business development consistent with mission-aligned efforts.
• Mentor junior scientists and coordinate with academic and industry partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in quantum fault-tolerance theory, decoders, and stabilizer formalism.
• Experience in simulation tools including Python, Julia, QEC frameworks, and tensor-network libraries.
• Experience with peer-reviewed research in quantum error correction.
• Ability to collaborate with experimental teams to facilitate physical implementation.
• Top Secret clearance.
• Doctorate degree in Quantum Information Science, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Applied Mathematics.

Qualifications

• Nice if you have:
• Experience with noise modeling and designing QEC protocols for hardware-constrained architectures.
• Experience with qLDPC codes and corresponding decoders.
• Experience with reconfigurable qubit architectures.
• Experience with quantum networking, photon-mediated entanglement, and heralding systems.
• Experience with quantum characterization, verification, and validation (QCVV) techniques.
• Experience facilitating milestone demonstration events.

Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Proficiency in relevant programming languages and tools.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Dependent care.

Pay

$77,600.00 to $176,000.00 (annualized USD).

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.