Senior/Research Fellow

Job Duties

• Develop modeling techniques and software tools with capabilities for:
  • modeling quantum systems at various levels of the technology stack, including low-level noisy analog physics, and higher level Clifford circuits for communication and error correction;
  • designing, modeling, and optimizing communication, distillation, and error correction protocols;
  • tightly coupling with experimental data for parameter estimation and Hamiltonian learning;
  • symbolic algebra capabilities for modeling quantum systems;
  • discrete event simulations;
  • automatic differentiation and sensitivity analysis for the prediction of the models;
• Describes techniques and results for use in scientific papers and conferences;
• assists in writing reports and articles.
• Contributes to the development of new research proposals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field with focus on Quantum Information Science (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
• Capacity for excellent research, as demonstrated by publications or other professional activities, appropriate to the number of years in the field.
• Expertise with high performance computing and related programming languages, in particular the Julia scientific stack.
• Expertise with building and maintaining software systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with common tools for:
  • analog quantum dynamics: master equations; software tools like qutip, QuantumOptics.jl and DifferentialEquations.jl;
  • (noisy) digital dynamics: gate model, typical error models, CPTP description of quantum processes; software tools like Yao.jl, cirq, or qiskit;
  • error correction and Clifford circuits: software tools like ldpc, stim, or QuantumClifford.jl;
  • network modeling: software tools like netsquid and simpy;
  • computer algebra systems: software tools like sympy and Symbolics.jl;
  • automatic differentiation: software tools like SciML.jl, pytorch, tensorflow, jax.