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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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As a Principal Quantum Engineer - Systems Physics & Performance at Microsoft Quantum, you will drive foundational advances in characterizing, understanding, and optimizing complex quantum-device systems. Your day-to-day responsibilities include developing frameworks to diagnose multi-component quantum systems, designing computational benchmarks to quantify error phenomena, and translating physical insights into practical corrective procedures for next-generation processors. You will collaborate closely with theorists, device physicists, and materials scientists to bridge theoretical predictions with experimental observables, while also guiding advanced materials diagnostics and integrating results from national metrology facilities into hardware design feedback loops. Ideal candidates possess a deep understanding of condensed-matter physics, expertise in interacting quantum systems, and experience with cryogenic measurement techniques, superconducting platforms, and system-level performance modeling. This role offers the opportunity to influence the direction of topological quantum computing efforts within a multidisciplinary research environment.
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