CareerPlan

Senior Quantum Applied Research Scientist, Calibration and Decoding

US, WA, RedmondFull-time$192k2026-09-14 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Design and build real-time AI models for quantum system calibration and decoding to enable fault-tolerant quantum hardware.

Role type

Senior Applied Research Scientist (Quantum/AI)

Builds

Real-time calibration-decoding pipelines, physics-informed synthetic data generators, and surrogate models for quantum hardware.

Domain

Quantum Computing / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Quantum device physics, Machine learning, Deep learning, Reinforcement learning, GPU programming, Synthetic data generation, Hamiltonian characterization, Noise modeling, Classical feedback control, Model architecture design

Preferred skills

Learned calibration/decoding deployment, Sim-to-real transfer, Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (LoRA/QLoRA), CUDA programming

Technologies

CUDA, NVIDIA GPUs, Reinforcement Learning, Hamiltonian models

Responsibilities

Develop physics-informed synthetic data generation pipelines; Build surrogate models of quantum hardware; Architect performant real-time AI systems for calibration and decoding; Apply reinforcement learning for calibration policy optimization; Develop GPU-accelerated implementations; Communicate research findings and collaborate with partners.