<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Summary</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":160,"335559739":80}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">QuEra is building its next-generation quantum computer in Boston: the first fault-tolerant, universal quantum computer at a scale where commercially useful applications become possible. This is the scientific, technological and commercial frontier — and this Quantum Scientist role helps make it real.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You will join the Quantum Computing Services team early in this new machine’s life, learn QuEra’s technology platform and the specific system as it is brought up. Your focus will be calibration, benchmarking and modeling: developing and automating the processes that maintain the machine performance and building the models that explain and predict its behavior — turning a complex experimental apparatus into a well-understood, stable system.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Everything you do serves one ultimate goal: turning this machine into a quantum computing product, with dependable service, delivered both internally and externally.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":120}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Across the machine’s lifecycle you will be expected to:</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Develop and automate calibration routines that keep the machine and its subsystems performing to spec, working with the hardware and software teams to implement them in the control stack.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Design and run benchmarking protocols that characterize system and subsystem performance and track it over time against product requirements.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Build and validate models of the machine — from physical error mechanisms to full-system behavior — to predict performance, guide design choices and inform the roadmap.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Sit at the interface of the hardware, software and applications, translating between them and keeping calibration, benchmarking and modeling consistent as the system evolves.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Feed these insights back into the product and service, helping turn the machine into a reliable, programmable compute resource.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Qualifications</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":160,"335559739":80}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">A Ph.D. in experimental or computational AMO physics, quantum information, or a related field.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":540,"335559991":300,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Hands-on experience characterizing, calibrating or modeling a neutral-atom, trapped-ion or comparable quantum system.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":80}"> </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="•" data-font="" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props=