Remote Quantum Modeling Scientist for Fault-Tolerant QC

Phase2 Technology; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 77,600 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Quantum Scientist specializing in modeling and simulation to advance scalable, noise-aware quantum circuit simulations for fault-tolerant architectures. You will collaborate with quantum physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to enable rapid exploration of noise models and error-correction techniques.

You will integrate frameworks (Qiskit/Cirq/PennyLane) and develop high-performance kernels, contributing to algorithm-hardware codesign and

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 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 established libraries such as Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, and custom tensor-network engines.
• Prototype new simulation methods, including reduced-order models, quasiprobability noise propagation, and hybrid stochastic-deterministic techniques.
• Support business development consistent with mission-aligned efforts.

Skills

Quantum simulation

Numerical linear algebra

HPC

Parallel programming

Education

Doctorate in Physics/CS/Applied Math/EE

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Quantum Scientist specializing in modeling and simulation to advance scalable, noise-aware quantum circuit simulations for fault-tolerant architectures. You will collaborate with quantum physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to enable rapid exploration of noise models and error-correction techniques.

You will integrate frameworks (Qiskit/Cirq/PennyLane) and develop high-performance kernels, contributing to algorithm-hardware codesign and