Quantum Computing Simulation Postdoc: Materials & Algorithms

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 9,000 - 10,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Exceptional health benefits

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher to develop algorithms for simulating magnetic materials, perform large-scale classical simulations on the upcoming Doudna supercomputer, and run circuits on quantum hardware.

You will collaborate with NERSC staff, LLNL, and Quera to analyze performance, and validate algorithms.

Qualifications

• PhD awarded within the last five years in Physics, Computational Chemistry, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
• Programming experience in one or more of: Python, C++, Fortran, Julia.
• Ability to work effectively on interdisciplinary teams.
• Clear written and oral communication with a record of leading and reporting results.
• Knowledge of quantum computing algorithms.
• Familiarity with tensor network methods.
• Experience programming GPUs.
• Experience implementing, optimizing, or integrating quantum libraries such as Itensor, CUDA-Q, Qiskit, or PennyLane.
• Experience debugging and profiling distributed-memory parallel applications.
• Knowledge of Git and modern software practices such as unit testing, CI/CD, and collaborative development.

Responsibilities

• Develop algorithms for magnetic materials: dynamics.
• Analyze and optimize quantum-related workflows, including classical simulation of quantum systems.
• Develop and apply advanced workflow capabilities such as on-system classical simulations.
• Publish and present results in peer-reviewed venues and conferences.
• Validate results on quantum hardware.

Skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Clear written and oral communication

Education

PhD awarded within the last five years in Physics, Computational Science, or related field

Tools

Python

C++

Fortran

Julia

Itensor

CUDA-Q

Qiskit

PennyLane

Job description

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher to develop algorithms for simulating magnetic materials, perform large-scale classical simulations on the upcoming Doudna supercomputer, and run circuits on quantum hardware.

You will collaborate with NERSC staff, LLNL, and Quera to analyze performance, and validate algorithms.