Senior Quantum Systems Engineer

Nvidia

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Hybrid
Location
Redmond, WASanta Clara, CA
Salary
$152,000–$241,500 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
51 days ago
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About Nvidia

Nvidia is a leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and system-on-chip units, powering gaming, professional visualization, data centers, and artificial intelligence workloads. Industry: Semiconductors & AI Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Quantum Systems Engineer

As a Senior Quantum Systems Engineer - Quantum Computing, you will join a rapidly growing team to help enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. You will collaborate with internal research, product, and engineering teams alongside external partners to define system requirements. Your daily responsibilities include developing novel approaches to real-time quantum error correction and calibration through rigorous systems analysis for various qubit modalities. You will distill product requirements into technical specifications across hardware, software, and firmware while developing and reviewing test cases. The role requires deep hands-on experience with real qubits, quantum control systems software, and real-time embedded systems. You should possess skills in communication networking, benchmarking methods, AI, ML, CUDA, and NVIDIA GPUs to solve complex problems in quantum control systems and hardware integration.

What you'll do

  • Define system requirements with internal and external partners to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing.
  • Develop novel approaches for real-time quantum error correction and calibration.
  • Perform rigorous systems analysis for a variety of qubit modalities.
  • Distill product requirements into technical specifications across hardware, software, and firmware.
  • Develop test cases to support technical requirements.
  • Review test implementations for correctness and completeness.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering field or equivalent experience.
  • Post-bachelor’s experience engineering across multiple parts of a complex hardware and software system.
  • Deep hands-on experience working with real qubits and quantum control systems software.
  • Experience with design of quantum control systems and techniques, including communication and networking (preferred).
  • Experience with development of real-time systems and embedded software (preferred).
  • Knowledge of methods of benchmarking quantum computers (preferred).
  • Adoption of AI and ML techniques (preferred).
  • Experience with CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs (preferred).

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