Software Research & Development Engineer

Xanadus mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.

Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this where if we are successful the technologies we develop will solve some of the worlds most challenging problems and literally change the world. In this role you will help develop the numerical toolkit for fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing architectures. Improvements to the scalability and performance of the architectures can enter anywhere in the stack requiring a broad understanding of Xanadus public architecture and its iterations but the focus will be on the logical (quantum error-correction) layers . Although you can expect some analytical work at various levels of abstraction from optical circuits to qubit quantum error correction the focus will be on the development of our in-house software tools. This will involve using maintaining optimizing and introducing new features to the existing fault-tolerant software stack to run large-scale error-correction simulations for the purpose of evaluating performance and estimating resources.

Physics Mathematics Computer Science or Engineering especially in topics relevant to quantum information theory

Several years of research or industry experience in related fields

Strong experience with object-oriented programming in Python

Experience with high-performance computing including writing and running optimized and parallelized code on supercomputers and computing clusters

Experience with software engineering best practices: testing continuous integration version control documentation and code review

Familiarity with quantum computation theory including quantum error correction under various noise models codes and decoders

Great communication skills and the ability to clearly express complex technical concepts

Up-to-date knowledge of the latest developments in quantum computing and error-correction

Some experience programming in low-level languages (e.g. PhD in Computer Science Physics Mathematics or Engineering is an asset

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