Remote Quantum Scientist: High-Performance Simulation & QEC

Booz Allen Hamilton; United States; 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 build scalable, noise-aware quantum circuit simulators and frameworks. You will collaborate with physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to explore noise models and error-correction strategies.

The role emphasizes advancing algorithm–hardware co-design, validating hardware constraints, and accelerating progress toward practical quantum advantage through scalable HPC and GPU-enabled

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in quantum circuit simulation, including error correction pipelines and decoders.
• Experience in numerical linear algebra, HPC, and parallel programming.
• Experience with quantum software frameworks such as Qiskit, Cirq, or PennyLane.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
• Doctorate in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or Electrical Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Develop, refine, and validate high-efficiency quantum circuit simulators (state-vector, tensor-network, stabilizer).
• Implement noise-aware simulations using real hardware constraints (gate errors, decoherence, connectivity, measurement noise, pulse-level).
• Integrate mid-circuit measurements, decoders, and conditional gates for QECC simulations.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to incorporate noise models, gate sets, and connectivity maps.
• Provide simulation-based design feedback for logical operations, resource estimation, and bottleneck analysis.
• Build scalable pipelines for HPC clusters, GPUs, or distributed systems.
• Integrate simulation frameworks with Python, Rust, C++, CUDA, and libraries like Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane.

Skills

Quantum simulation

HPC & parallel

Noise models

Top Secret clearance

Quantum software concepts

Education

PhD in Physics, CS, Math or EE

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Quantum Scientist specializing in modeling and simulation to build scalable, noise-aware quantum circuit simulators and frameworks. You will collaborate with physicists, algorithm designers, and hardware engineers to explore noise models and error-correction strategies.

The role emphasizes advancing algorithm–hardware co-design, validating hardware constraints, and accelerating progress toward practical quantum advantage through scalable HPC and GPU-enabled