Lead Quantum Architecture Software & QEC Tools

Xanadu; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Xanadu is seeking a Quantum Architecture Research Software Lead to drive the vision and development of simulation tools for prototyping, optimizing, and benchmarking the company’s logical quantum architecture.

You will lead a team across research software developers and engineers, enhance scalability, and collaborate with researchers to advance the fault-tolerant software stack in challenging regimes of large system sizes.

Qualifications

• MSc or PhD in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Several years of research or industry experience in related fields, with demonstrated experience developing and using software tools for QEC.
• Experience coordinating projects or leading teams.
• Strong experience with Python and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with high-performance computing, including writing and running optimized and parallelized code on supercomputers and computing clusters.
• Experience with software engineering best practices: testing, CI, version control, documentation, and code review.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Great communication skills, and the ability to clearly express complex technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision and development of the software simulation tools for prototyping, optimizing, and benchmarking Xanadu’s logical architecture.
• Improve scalability and performance of the architecture across the stack, focusing on the logical (quantum error-correction) layers.
• Manage projects and coordinate researchers, software developers, and engineers; interface with researchers across Quantum Architecture and other teams.
• Leverage existing tooling and kick off new projects to advance the architecture in large-scale and low-noise regimes.

Skills

Python

Object-oriented programming

High-performance computing

Project leadership

Software engineering best practices

Education

MSc or PhD in Physics/Engineering/CS

Tools

QEC knowledge

C/C++

Job description

Xanadu is seeking a Quantum Architecture Research Software Lead to drive the vision and development of simulation tools for prototyping, optimizing, and benchmarking the company’s logical quantum architecture.

You will lead a team across research software developers and engineers, enhance scalability, and collaborate with researchers to advance the fault-tolerant software stack in challenging regimes of large system sizes.