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Senior Applied Scientist, QEC SW, MQS Center for Quantum Computing

San Francisco, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $192,200–$260,000🗓 2026-09-17 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building a quantum control system for fault-tolerant quantum computing by developing software/gateware runtime, emulation tooling, and open-source research contributions.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Quantum Control Software)

Builds

Next-generation quantum control system runtime and emulation tooling for real-time quantum error detection and correction

Domain

Quantum Computing / Control Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | research

Required skills

Quantum error correction theory, quantum control systems, software/gateware runtime development, research environment collaboration, engineering tradeoff analysis

Preferred skills

AWS tools and services, quantum computing software stack, GPU-accelerated decoding for QEC, open-source software release, published research in quantum computing

Technologies

AWS, GPU

Responsibilities

Contribute to software/gateware runtime for quantum control system, Build emulation tooling for control system requirements exploration, Make engineering tradeoff decisions for hardware/software roadmap, Release open-source software and publish research, Mentor scientists and document codebase

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with research leadership

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