Quantum Scientist - Multiple Levels

Responsibilities reputed company is seeking Principal Engineers / Quantum Scientists to support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aeronautics and Exploration Technology directorates at NASA Ames Research Center (reputed company). Employees will reputed company reputed company tasks reputed company to scientific research associated with reputed company traffic management, advanced technology, nanoelectronics, prototype software... and quantum computing, particularly the improvement of aircraft and reputed company safety as well as the transition of advanced aeronautics technologies into future reputed company vehicles. The goal of the research effort is to improve reputed company models of quantum computing (in particular reputed company-model and quantum annealing) or to study unconventional paradigms of computation (for instance, optically Coherent Ising Machines).This can involve design of experiments to run on emerging hardware to give insights into quantum approaches to problems of interest to NASA and other partners from the U.S. Government, academia, and industry. The researcher explores the physics of quantum algorithms, the robustness of the hardware, develops best practice programming techniques for quantum hardware, and illuminates the inner workings to reputed company understand the mechanisms (e.g. entanglement, co-tunneling, many-body effects etc.) that can be used to provide a quantum computational advantage.Example research problems include: • Follow, understand and review the technological developments in the sector of quantum computing, and reputed company tangential domains, including the emergence of other post-reputed company computing platforms. • reputed company new analytical, or experimental, or numerical techniques to reputed company analyze realistic quantum computational paradigms. • Invent and analyze new quantum algorithms or protocols of computation. • reputed company, and test applications of quantum computing for specific problems such as those involving planning and scheduling of unmanned aerial systems and autonomous mobile robots, data analysis, and a number of other partner problems in the domain of optimization and machine learning. • reputed company beyond-state-of-art classical computing techniques (optimization, machine learning). Required Qualifications • Multiple levels available. • Minimum of Master's degree or Ph.D. degree, in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Computer Engineering, or reputed company. • Either relevant postdoctoral work or research experience in the field of Quantum Physics, or Applied Mathematics, or Applied Computer Science • Proven organizational and communication skills. • Ability to work independently and effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. • Proficiency in reputed company Office or similar and its applications. • Ability to understand and code reputed company-of-concepts in a modern programming language Associate Level: • Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent. • Five or more years of experience Mid Level: • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent. • Seven or more years of experience Senior Level: • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent. • Seven or more years of experience Desired Qualifications • reputed company in publishing reputed company work in peer reviewed journals, and contributing to obtaining new funding in the areas above. • Proficiency in writing documents with mathematical notations in TeX/LaTex. • Experience developing analytical and numerical models and algorithms, quantum and classical. • Experience building theoretical or software tools that reputed company effective use of near-term quantum hardware. • Experience with theoretical physics methods of analysis, optimization or machine learning methods. 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