Quantum Scientist: Modeling & Simulation Innovator

Booz Allen Hamilton; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 77,600 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC is seeking a Quantum Scientist specializing in modeling and simulation to shape a scalable, noise-aware environment for fault-tolerant quantum circuits across hardware models.

You will work with quantum physicists, algorithm designers and engineers to advance methods for algorithm–hardware co-design, validate constraints, and prototype ideas before hardware, accelerating progress toward quantum advantage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in quantum circuit simulation, including quantum error correction pipelines, decoder simulation, stabilizer formalism, and dynamic circuit primitives
• Experience in numerical linear algebra, high‑performance computing, and parallel programming
• Experience in quantum‑software frameworks such as Qiskit, Cirq, or PennyLane
• Experience implementing custom noise models and performance‑optimized simulation kernels
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance
• Doctorate degree in a Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering field

Responsibilities

• Develop, refine, and validate high‑efficiency quantum circuit simulators, including state‑vector, tensor‑network, and stabilizer workflows.
• Implement noise‑aware simulations informed by real‑world hardware constraints—gate errors, decoherence, connectivity, measurement noise, and pulse‑level imperfections.
• Integrate mid-circuit measurements, logical decoders, and conditional gates to enable quantum error correction simulations.
• Collaborate with hardware‑facing teams to incorporate hardware‑specific noise models, gate sets, connectivity maps, and compilation constraints.
• Provide simulation‑based design feedback for logical‑level operations, algorithm resource estimation, and performance bottleneck analysis.
• Build scalable simulation pipelines optimized for HPC clusters, GPUs, or distributed systems.
• Integrate simulation frameworks with internal toolchains, leveraging Python, Rust, C++, CUDA, and established libraries such as Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, custom tensor-network engines.
• Prototype new simulation methods, including reduced‑order models, quasi‑probability noise propagation, and hybrid stochastic–deterministic techniques.
• Support business development consistent with mission‑aligned efforts.

Skills

quantum circuit simulation

numerical linear algebra

high-performance computing

parallel programming

quantum software frameworks

Education

PhD in Physics/CS/Math/EE

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

CUDA

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC is seeking a Quantum Scientist specializing in modeling and simulation to shape a scalable, noise-aware environment for fault-tolerant quantum circuits across hardware models.

You will work with quantum physicists, algorithm designers and engineers to advance methods for algorithm–hardware co-design, validate constraints, and prototype ideas before hardware, accelerating progress toward quantum advantage.