Quantum Trainer

Responsibilities

• Help lead Tyto Athene’s Quantum Community of Practice in partnership with the Quantum Practice Director.
• Develop and deliver training sessions, workshops, office hours, hackathons, and internal enablement materials for developers, engineers, solution architects, and business development teams.
• Create a practical quantum education program that helps employees understand core terminology, concepts, use cases, limitations, and escalation paths.
• Foster an active internal community where employees can share ideas, ask questions, identify customer opportunities, and connect with Quantum Practice experts.
• Help developers and engineers understand where quantum algorithms may be relevant to customer problems, including optimization, simulation, search, sampling, machine learning, and hybrid quantum-classical approaches.
• Teach practical concepts in quantum computing, including qubits, gates, circuits, measurement, noise, simulation, NISQ-era limitations, and hardware constraints.
• Support teams in identifying candidate use cases for quantum algorithm exploration within existing contracts, projects, and customer environments.
• Develop hands-on examples using quantum software tools, emulators, and cloud-accessible platforms to help technical teams build working familiarity with quantum algorithm concepts.
• Work with the Quantum Algorithm Design lead to ensure training content is technically accurate and that promising algorithm opportunities are escalated to the appropriate experts.
• Build company-wide familiarity with the broader quantum technology landscape, including quantum computing, quantum sensing, quantum networking, and post-quantum cryptography.
• Equip customer-facing teams to speak credibly about quantum technology opportunities, risks, timelines, and limitations.
• Develop simple decision frameworks that help teams recognize when a customer need may involve quantum technology and when to escalate to the Quantum Practice.
• Maintain training materials that reflect current practice positions, terminology, technology maturity, and customer-relevant use cases.
• Support business development teams by helping identify where quantum capabilities may strengthen captures, proposals, and customer conversations.
• Develop reusable proposal language, briefing materials, capability summaries, and educational content that describe Tyto Athene’s quantum offerings.
• Prepare teams for customer engagements by providing background training, use case framing, and plain-language explanations of quantum concepts.
• Partner with capture, solution architecture, and technical teams to identify quantum-relevant opportunities across existing and emerging customer missions.
• Support customer workshops, discovery sessions, and introductory briefings as needed.
• Partner with quantum leads across algorithm design, PQC and quantum science to keep training aligned with practice strategy.
• Track internal adoption of quantum training and identify where additional enablement, tools, or resources are needed.
• Promote responsible communication of quantum technology, including realistic expectations, clear limitations, and avoidance of overstatement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Science, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in quantum computing, quantum information science, technical training, software engineering, scientific computing, or related technical enablement.
• Working knowledge of quantum computing concepts, including qubits, gates, circuits, measurement, quantum algorithms, simulators, and current hardware limitations.
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to mixed audiences, including developers, engineers, executives, business development teams, and customer-facing staff.
• Experience developing technical training content, workshops, demos, documentation, or enablement materials.
• Familiarity with quantum software tools, programming frameworks, simulators, or cloud-accessible quantum platforms.
• Ability to recognize practical quantum use cases and distinguish credible opportunities from immature or overstated claims.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills.

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in Physics, Quantum Information Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Experience with quantum algorithms, hybrid quantum-classical workflows, optimization, simulation, or quantum machine learning concepts.
• Familiarity with post-quantum cryptography, quantum sensing, quantum networking, or quantum communications.
• Experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, Federal Civilian, Department of Energy, national laboratory, or federally funded programs.
• Experience creating or running a technical community of practice, internal training program, developer enablement program, or technical upskilling initiative.
• Experience supporting business development, capture, proposals, customer discovery, or technical solution shaping.
• Familiarity with Python and common quantum computing SDKs, simulators, or educational platforms.