Quantum Scientist
Required skills
- experimental physics
- computational physics
- quantum information
- neutral-atom
- trapped-ion
- quantum system
- calibration
- benchmarking
- modeling
- control stack
Nice to have
- quantum error correction
- fault-tolerant architectures
- AI workflows
- automation
Role summary
QuEra is seeking a Quantum Scientist in Boston to contribute to its next-generation quantum computer. This role focuses on calibration, benchmarking, and modeling to ensure machine performance and predict its behavior, ultimately transforming the experimental apparatus into a stable, well-understood system and a commercial product. You will work closely with hardware and software teams, bridging the gap between different disciplines to deliver dependable quantum computing services.
Summary
QuEra is building its next-generation quantum computer in Boston: the first fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer at a scale where commercially useful applications become possible. This is the scientific, technological and commercial frontier — and this Quantum Scientist role helps make it real.
You will join the Quantum Computing Services team early in this new machine’s life, learn QuEra’s technology platform and the specific system as it is brought up. Your focus will be calibration, benchmarking and modeling: developing and automating the processes that maintain the machine performance and building the models that explain and predict its behavior — turning a complex experimental apparatus into a well-understood, stable system.
Everything you do serves one ultimate goal: turning this machine into a quantum computing product, with dependable service, delivered both internally and externally.
Across the machine’s lifecycle you will be expected to:
Qualifications
Salary Range: $130,000 to $210,000. We consistently monitor external market data and update base salary ranges accordingly. We determine base compensation decisions on several factors, including as geographic placement, role-specific knowledge, skills, and/or experience. In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires.
QuEra is committed to cultivating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We highly value diversity in our current and future employees and do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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