Quantum Simulation Scientist: Noise-Aware Fault-Tolerant Modeling

Phase2 Technology; Corridor North (MD); Hybrid; USD 77,600 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton 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 collaborate with quantum physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to create fast, adaptable simulation capabilities that keep pace with evolving noise models and quantum error-correction strategies.

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 Physics, CS, Applied Math, or EE.

Responsibilities

• Develop, refine, and validate high-efficiency quantum circuit simulators, including statevector, 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 libraries such as Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane.

Skills

Quantum circuit simulation

HPC

Parallel programming

Numerical linear algebra

Top Secret clearance

Education

Doctorate degree in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Python

Rust

C++

CUDA

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton 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 collaborate with quantum physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to create fast, adaptable simulation capabilities that keep pace with evolving noise models and quantum error-correction strategies.