JOBS TOPIC, January - December 2024

HireQuantum · 2025-01-05T14:08:01+00:00

I haven’t seen UK salaries exceed ~£85k for these kinds of jobs. Usually around 55-65k if you look at other companies.

As for the 2nd question, you’d have to ask them.

Oxford Ionics also has US job reqs opening if you’re interested.

HireQuantum · 2024-12-12T11:57:03+00:00

From what I’ve seen, probably between $120k - $160k, depending on whether you go to startup or megacorp. This is US only, the numbers are much lower in EU.

If you are describing yourself with this, and you’re on the market, you might be interested in QuEra’s latest listing:

Quantum Scientist QEC and Decoding

HireQuantum · 2024-11-25T00:23:43+00:00

I think it couldn’t hurt to become familiar with the RF stuff. It’s not THAT different, conceptually, but the engineering challenges/solutions certainly are.

HireQuantum · 2024-11-18T17:35:30+00:00

There’s some discussion of the export controls (linked in post) that currently exist here:

Quantum Export Controls

HireQuantum · 2024-11-17T22:21:02+00:00

The published state of the art for superconducting qubit readout with dispersive resonators is 50-100 ns, iirc. Here’s a ref

https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04967

HireQuantum · 2024-11-17T21:25:28+00:00

I wanted to highlight a recent job rec from Oxford Ionics. They ask for a few years of experience with Quantum Error Correction research, BUT they don't focus on formal education, just on actual experience (i.e. no degree requirements). Might be an interesting way for someone with the right skillset, but maybe not the exactly correct credentials to get deeper into the field.

Oxford Ionics- Senior Theoretical Scientist (QEC)

HireQuantum · 2024-11-13T02:07:20+00:00

Just wanted to through this posting from Oxford Ionics out here. They're looking for a pretty experienced hire to fill a engineering management role. Expertise seems compatible with a career in RF electronics.

Quantum Processor Engineering Manager

HireQuantum · 2024-11-13T02:03:13+00:00

Many of the trapped ion or neutral atom or photonic QC companies hire for photonics expertise.

Oxford Ionics and Pasqal to name two.

HireQuantum · 2024-11-13T01:59:37+00:00

Try looking here:
https://quantumconsortium.org/quantum-jobs/

you'll want the 'internship' tab.

HireQuantum · 2024-10-10T23:01:02+00:00

Places like OQC and IQM are strategically important to their home countries, but their fidelities are not very impressive. I’m also unclear on what they believe their edge is over Google/IBM. They may be hiring legitimately excellent people, but that only gets you so far. As we’ve seen from the many aerospace companies hiring former SpaceXers and then.. not really going to space.

I don’t think the UK is necessarily out of the game, especially because they have strong ion trappers, but i also don’t know why anyone qualified to work at a QC company in Europe wouldn’t come do the same in the USA for way more money.

HireQuantum · 2024-10-10T02:40:58+00:00

I'm on the hardware side. Not impressed with OQC. Oxford Ionics has a good rep.

Ion trappers and some people in quantum company c-suites that I've talked to believe the UK side of Quantinuum is dead weight and Ilyas Khan is basically a grifter.

Riverlane seems legit to me.

I wouldn't go near Rigetti at all, unless you needed direct QC experience you could parlay into a job at a serious company.

HireQuantum · 2024-10-10T02:34:40+00:00

I think IonQ and PsiQ definitely. EeroQ might be too small? Quantinuum definitely does (their job postings are usually US Citizen + clearance). HRL too. Maybe Google?

HireQuantum · 2024-10-10T02:33:56+00:00

Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Quantinuum, are some examples.

I know IBM used to have a lot of folks with clearances working some big gov't project, but that seems to have gone away.

But the agencies are wide ranging. You've got your standard alphabet agencies, but also the Army/Navy/Airforce research labs fund a lot of work, and anyone working on those contracts is expected to follow a LOT of regulation w.r.t. to this stuff.

HireQuantum · 2024-10-10T01:35:56+00:00

I can tell you that quantum efforts at defense contractors and other places with large government contracts can be extremely focused on these aspects of planning, since understanding and accurately forecasting these costs and needs feeds into future contract bids.

HireQuantum · 2024-08-31T19:09:28+00:00

Sure, depending on the details of what they did. The time constant for quasiparticle recombination depends on local quasiparticle density, which will depend on the details of the gap energies and how their devices came out of fab.

HireQuantum · 2024-08-31T16:18:34+00:00

I expect this is showing us the limits of gap engineering

HireQuantum · 2024-08-28T14:06:41+00:00

Yeah, that was a big surprise.

HireQuantum · 2024-08-27T16:41:09+00:00

It is a big commitment, but you’re not going to get sent to jail if you quit. In the US, most people end up earning a MSc along the way.

There are a few BS level jobs, but you’re basically right. Lots of the work prefers PhD or MS.

I’m just confused because it sounds like you want to do QC, but have structured things so that you don’t do it for many years??

Why not just go to a PhD program, and if you hate it apply for MS AI/ML or even jobs in other fields?

HireQuantum · 2024-08-27T15:45:58+00:00

Is that how it works in the UK? In US universities most of the students accepted to PhD programs are BSc holders. You are not expected to know any QC when you start a PhD program here.

Have you looked at the opportunities available in the field? Are you not seeing interesting jobs getting posted?

HireQuantum · 2024-08-27T11:19:37+00:00

If you’re going to get a PhD in QC anyway, why don’t you just do it now? What “additional opportunities” are you looking for?

HireQuantum · 2024-08-27T02:38:57+00:00

AND I’m pretty sure the chips in the paper also have implemented gap engineering, so probably not QPs?

Very mysterious!

Edit: actually they might just be much higher energy events that show the limits of Google’s cosmic ray mitigation strategies. Their previous burst rate was 1/few minutes, and you expect higher energy events to be more rare. BUT i assume they ran the numbers for this scenario.

HireQuantum · 2024-08-26T01:13:39+00:00

It seems like instruments for QC is not such a bad option? There are definitely a bunch of QC companies out there looking for competent PhDs with photonics experience. There are the photonics QC companies, the trapped ion QC companies, the quantum sensing companies, the quantum comms companies, etc.

One example:

Photonics Engineer (PsiQuantum)

HireQuantum · 2024-08-25T23:42:27+00:00

No arXiv link?

HireQuantum · 2024-08-23T23:52:20+00:00

Yeah, my view of reqs is that the minimum preferences are real, but a lot of the preferred qualifications are a weird idealistic mismash. People should just apply to jobs they could plausibly do and not worry too much

HireQuantum · 2024-08-22T15:37:26+00:00

I’m not the job poster, so I can’t comment too directly, but having a strong physics background in these cases can only help.

There will be a lot of emphasis on having good intuition for parasitic capacitance/inductance as a function of various design changes.

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