Team Lead – Gate-Based Quantum Chemistry

Entangled Future; Garching bei München; Hybride; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible hours

Hybrid work

Company pension

EGYM Wellpass

Job bike

Conferences participation

Relocation support

Learning sessions

Team events

Four locations

Résumé du poste

Entangled Future is seeking a Team Lead for Gate-Based Quantum Chemistry to build and guide a multidisciplinary team aimed at turning algorithms into practical quantum advantage on our hardware. You will set direction for gate-based work, balance scientific goals with hardware timelines, and translate insights into concrete, resource-estimated algorithms.

You will hire and mentor team members, manage priorities, and oversee end-to-end projects from grant proposals to internal and external

Qualifications

• PhD in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Chemistry or a related field.
• Several years of post-PhD experience in academia or industry working on quantum algorithms.
• Proven track record in people management: leading a team or research group and hiring, developing, retaining scientists.
• Expert knowledge of fault-tolerant quantum chemistry algorithms and techniques like block encodings, qubitization, quantum signal processing and quantum singular value transformation.
• Hands-on experience with quantum resource estimation and algorithmic cost analysis under realistic error-correction assumptions.

Responsabilités

• Lead and grow a team of quantum chemistry scientists, including hiring, onboarding, prioritisation, technical mentoring, career development, and performance feedback.
• Own the technical roadmap for gate-based algorithms in quantum chemistry and correlated electronic materials, balancing scientific ambition against realistic hardware timelines.
• Design, analyse, and benchmark fault-tolerant quantum algorithms based on block encodings, qubitization and quantum signal processing, including end-to-end resource estimation for application-relevant problem instances.
• Drive hardware and software co-design with our hardware and architecture teams, translating algorithmic requirements into hardware specifications and exploiting the specific strengths of neutral-atom platforms in algorithm design.
• Take responsibility for internal and external projects, delivering customer, consortium, and grant-funded work on time and at high scientific quality.
• Acquire new projects and partners by identifying industry and research opportunities, leading grant proposals, and representing planqc in customer meetings, consortia, and at conferences.
• Communicate results credibly to technical and non-technical audiences, from publications and customer deliverables to internal decision documents.

Connaissances

People management

Quantum resource estimation

Algorithmic cost analysis

Hardware-software co-design

Formation

PhD in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Chemistry

Description du poste

As Team Lead for Gate-Based Quantum Chemistry, you will build and lead the team that turns these algorithms into a credible path to useful quantum advantage on our hardware. You will set the technical direction for our gate-based algorithm work in quantum chemistry and correlated materials, and translate it into concrete, resource-estimated algorithms whose costs are expressed in the operations our machines actually perform. Together with the hardware team you will identify which architectural choices matter most for end-to-end application performance, and feed that insight back into both algorithm design and hardware development.

The role combines technical leadership with real people responsibility. You will hire your team members, set their priorities, and give them room to grow. It suits someone who has led a research team before, who thinks end-to-end about cost and application value, and who is comfortable moving between hardware physicists, software engineers, and industrial customers.

Joining us means

• Bringing quantum advantage to quantum chemistry use cases by leveraging hardware software co-design workflows
• Collaborating with an exceptional, international team across disciplines
• Contributing to a fast-growing quantum startup at a pivotal stage

If you're excited about leading the team that turns fault-tolerant quantum chemistry algorithms into a credible application for neutral-atom quantum computers , we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll do

• 01 Lead and grow a team of quantum chemistry scientists, including hiring, onboarding, prioritisation, technical mentoring, career development, and performance feedback.
• 02 Own the technical roadmap for gate-based algorithms in quantum chemistry and correlated electronic materials, balancing scientific ambition against realistic hardware timelines.
• 03 Design, analyse, and benchmark fault-tolerant quantum algorithms based on block encodings, qubitization and quantum signal processing, including end-to-end resource estimation for application-relevant problem instances.
• 04 Drive hardware and software co-design with our hardware and architecture teams, translating algorithmic requirements into hardware specifications and exploiting the specific strengths of neutral-atom platforms in algorithm design.
• 05 Take responsibility for internal and external projects, delivering customer, consortium, and grant-funded work on time and at high scientific quality.
• 06 Acquire new projects and partners by identifying industry and research opportunities, leading grant proposals, and representing planqc in customer meetings, consortia, and at conferences.
• 07 Communicate results credibly to technical and non-technical audiences, from publications and customer deliverables to internal decision documents.

What they're looking for

• PhD in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Chemistry, or a related field.
• Several years of post-PhD experience in academia or industry working on quantum algorithms.
• Proven track record in people management. You have led a team or research group and have experience in hiring, developing, and retaining scientists.
• Expert knowledge of fault-tolerant quantum chemistry algorithms and techniques like block encodings, qubitization, quantum signal processing and quantum singular value transformation.
• Hands-on experience with quantum resource estimation and algorithmic cost analysis under realistic error-correction assumptions.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of, or clear interest in, dynamical mean-field theory and strongly correlated materials.
• Familiarity with neutral-atom quantum computing and its architectural features.
• Experience with tensor network methods and classical simulation of quantum systems.
• Experience writing successful grant proposals or acquiring industrial projects.
• Solid scientific Python skills and experience with collaborative software development.
• Experience working in an agile (Scrum) environment.

Pay and benefits

• Flexible working: Flexible hours and hybrid work where the role allows.
• Company pension: Betriebliche Altersvorsorge with an employer contribution.
• Health and fitness: EGYM Wellpass for gyms, pools and studios, plus regular Health Days.
• Job bike: Lease a bike through planqc.
• Learning and development: Trainings and conference participation, including international conferences. Plus regular internal learning sessions where colleagues share their knowledge.
• Relocation and visa support: Practical support for international hires and their move to Germany or Austria.
• Four locations: Headquarters in Garching, an office in central Munich, plus sites in Ulm and Innsbruck.
• Team culture: Regular team and company events throughout the year, from after work socials to our summer and Christmas parties.

Interested in this role?

planqc is a German neutral-atom quantum computing company built on research from the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics. Its technology uses individual atoms confined in crystals of light as qubits, and the company has demonstrated scaling of neutral atoms to 1,200 qubits.

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