Quantum Finance Research Engineer: Portfolio Optimization

EDHEC Business School; Nice; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

EDHEC Business School in Nice is recruiting a Research Engineer in Quantum Computing for Finance at postdoctoral level to conduct applied research bridging quantum computing and financial applications.

Under the supervision of the EQI, you will design and benchmark algorithms, collaborate with industry partners, and contribute to reproducible research, papers, and open‑source software. Proficiency in English required; French is a plus.

Qualifications

• PhD in quantum computing or related field with strong research background.
• Experience implementing advanced algorithms in Python and quantum frameworks.
• Ability to work autonomously in interdisciplinary teams and publish results.

Responsibilities

• Conduct applied research on quantum and quantum-inspired approaches to finance.
• Translate finance use cases into computational problems for quantum methods.
• Design, implement, and benchmark algorithms using classical baselines and quantum tools.
• Assess performance, scaling, data requirements, and hardware constraints against classical baselines.
• Collaborate with financial institutions and quantum tech partners to define questions and milestones.
• Develop reproducible research code and contribute to papers, reports, and proposals.
• Present findings to academic and executive audiences and supervise junior researchers.

Skills

Quantum optimization

Numerical simulation

Machine learning

Python

Research planning

Education

PhD in quantum computing

Tools

Qiskit

PennyLane

Cirq

D-Wave Ocean

Job description

EDHEC Business School in Nice is recruiting a Research Engineer in Quantum Computing for Finance at postdoctoral level to conduct applied research bridging quantum computing and financial applications.

Under the supervision of the EQI, you will design and benchmark algorithms, collaborate with industry partners, and contribute to reproducible research, papers, and open‑source software. Proficiency in English required; French is a plus.