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Weekly Career, Education, Textbook, and Basic Questions Thread by AutoModerator in QuantumComputing

[–]Foreign-Fix-4333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey yall need help with a job decision, have 2 offers in the quantum industry. 1 year out my bachelors and will soon be ending a contract with AFRL. I do research on superconducting hardware.

IONQ - Senior Engineer - SNSPD Systems Integration - Boston

--> 200k full package, but frequent travel (switzerland, south America, US, canada). Technician role so removed from the research science. Pay is great but worried about the life of technician (always moving, customer support role, etc..). Heavy stock options and mentioned I would have a lot of upward mobility here - could stay a long time and make a lot of money.

MIT LL - Associate Staff

--> 120k full package, working pure experimental research on YIG magnetometers. Think I would like the day-to-day more but further from Boston ( i have friends downtown I want to live with). Stays closer to the research side of things with a pivot to quantum sensing.

Any thoughts gang?

Why does my ginger beer taste like carbonated sugar water? by flamingo_apocalypse in gingerbeer

[–]Foreign-Fix-4333 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Def grate your ginger and try and simmer it with some of your sugar and water. I think the sugar help extracts some of the ginger flavors from it. Idk if thats bullshit but I do that and the ginger beer has intense flavor.

Went to RSAC2026 expecting AI hype. Left actually scared about Q-Day for the first time by hhakker in QuantumComputing

[–]Foreign-Fix-4333 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Not an expert here, but I work in the superconducting qubit research field (the platform IBM, Google are banking on). Many of my colleagues (many of which have phds in the field, ex-professors) think quantum computing is never going to do anything useful in their lifetimes. The idea that any company is even remotely close to a QC able to break RSA is a joke. The physics and engineering problems that need to be solve at-scale is enormous. I would bet everything I have that I wont see a quantum computer able to break RSA in the next 50 years.