Quantum Scientist

Entangled Future; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Job summary

QuEra Computing in Boston seeks a mid-level Quantum Scientist to join the Quantum Computing Services team. You will help turn a next-generation machine into a reliable, programmable compute resource through calibration, benchmarking and modeling.

You will work at the interface of hardware, software and applications, translate between domains, and contribute to product and service development while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• PhD in experimental or computational AMO physics, quantum information, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience calibrating, calibrating or modeling a neutral-atom or trapped-ion quantum system.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with quantum error correction is a plus.
• Experience with AI workflows for automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate calibration routines that keep the machine and its subsystems performing to spec, working with hardware and software teams to implement them in the control stack.
• Design and run benchmarking protocols that characterize system and subsystem performance and track it over time against product requirements.
• Build and validate models of the machine—from physical error mechanisms to full-system behavior—to predict performance and guide design choices.
• Sit at the interface of hardware, software and applications, translating between them and keeping calibration, benchmarking and modeling consistent as the system evolves.
• Feed these insights back into the product and service, helping turn the machine into a reliable, programmable compute resource.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Programming

Software architectures

Education

Ph.D. in AMO physics or quantum information

Tools

Python

Job description

Quantum Scientist at QuEra Computing, Boston, MA, USA. A mid-level full time position in the Quantum Computing Services team, listed under software engineering.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and automate calibration routines that keep the machine and its subsystems performing to spec, working with the hardware and software teams to implement them in the control stack.
• Design and run benchmarking protocols that characterize system and subsystem performance and track it over time against product requirements.
• Build and validate models of the machine — from physical error mechanisms to full-system behavior — to predict performance, guide design choices and inform the roadmap.
• Sit at the interface of the hardware, software and applications, translating between them and keeping calibration, benchmarking and modeling consistent as the system evolves.
• Feed these insights back into the product and service, helping turn the machine into a reliable, programmable compute resource.

Requirements

• A Ph.D. in experimental or computational AMO physics, quantum information, or a related field.
• Hands‑on experience characterizing, calibrating or modeling a neutral‑atom, trapped‑ion or comparable quantum system.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, and a real interest in working at the interface of multidisciplinary teams..
• Software skills, including programming languages and a basic understanding of software architectures.
• Familiarity with quantum error correction and fault‑tolerant architectures is a plus.
• Familiarity with modern AI workflows for automation is a plus.
• Success in research, as evidenced by peer‑reviewed publications and/or scientific talks.
• Excitement to work at the scientific, technological and commercial frontier of quantum computing, and to help turn a flagship system into a product and service.