Postdoctoral Appointee - Quantum Information Science, Remote 8

Bidder Eligibility:

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What Your Job Will Be Like:

We are seeking Postdoctoral Appointee candidates with a strong publication record and/or relevant experience to join Sandia's quantum computing theory group and engage in the development and demonstration of accurate and scalable characterization methods for photonic quantum computers. As part of Sandia's broader Quantum Information Science (QIS) program, you will have opportunities to collaborate with researchers across the industry. Postdocs in our group work at the forefront of practical and theoretical quantum computing research, publish widely, and have the freedom to identify compelling research problems, take leadership, and solve them.

On any given day, you may:

• Work with a team developing new methods to assess and understand the performance of photonic quantum computing devices

• Interact and collaborate with a diverse set of experimentalists and other theorists at Sandia, academic institutions, other national labs, and private companies

• Work with theorists and experimentalists from the Quantum New Mexico Institute (QNM-I), the University of New Mexico (UNM), or the Quantum Demonstration Facility (QDF)

• Take ownership of technical projects, publish outstanding new developments in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and present your work at conferences

The selected applicant can be a remote worker located in any U. S. State or District of Columbia. Regular or periodic travel to your assigned work location may be required.

Qualifications We Require:

• PhD in Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Chemistry, or a related science or engineering field, conferred within five years prior to employment

• Record of research as demonstrated by publications in peer-reviewed journals, competitive conference proceedings, or high-impact program deliverables

Qualifications We Desire:

• Demonstrated research experience in quantum optics, nanophotonics, and optical science

• Demonstrated research experience in quantum computation and information science (including characterization of quantum hardware, design and modeling of qubits, quantum error correction, etc. )

• Proficiency in scientific programming, such as developing and running complex science and engineering codes on massively parallel computing clusters

• Interest in impacting applications and customers in support of DOE missions

About Our Team:

The Quantum Information Science (8739) Department pursues foundational research and development to enable creation of quantum information processors (QIPs) that will provide exponential speed-ups for selected computational problems. We are a team of researchers whose expertise and pursuits include:

computational modeling of physical qubits; theory and design of fault-tolerant QIPs; instruction set architectures for QIPs, evaluation of as-built qubit performance and noise characterization; logical qubit design for real-world noise; performance assessment of many-qubit QIPs; quantum algorithm development; the physics of information; and development of methods and computational simulation capabilities for all of the above pursuits. The Department staff collaborate with researchers in allied areas working on similar pursuits; closely collaborate with experimentalist groups at Sandia working on developing practical qubits in various technologies; have strong working relationships with the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) offices and other U. S. government agencies interested in quantum informat.