JPMorgan Chase
Quantum Computing Research Scientist – Quantum Error Correction - Vice President
$170K–$260K
New York, NY · Director · Full-time · Posted Mar 5, 2026
- Education
- Ph.D. degree in computer science, physics, math, engineering, or related fields, or equivalent experience
About the job
Develops and validates protocols and software for running universal fault-tolerant quantum computation on quantum hardware.
What you'll do
- Develop, numerically investigate, and optimize fault-tolerant computation protocols and circuit gadgets.
- Implement and experimentally validate protocols on quantum hardware, and document results in scientific papers.
- Maintain a codebase that enables colleagues to run quantum algorithms fault-tolerantly.
What they ask for
- Ph.D. in computer science, physics, math, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Competency in qubit-based stabilizer quantum error correction fundamentals.
- Experience with analytical and numerical circuit-level investigation of QEC and FTQC.
- Experience building quantum circuits in Cirq, Qiskit, Pytket, or another major framework; fluency in at least one of Python, Julia, C++, or Rust.
Nice to have
- Experience developing protocols for universal FTQC, including fault-tolerant gadgets.
- Knowledge of magic-state protocols, code surgery, dynamical codes, ZX calculus, or fault-tolerant quantum compilation.
Pay
$170,000.00-$260,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Cirq, Qiskit, Pytket, Python, Julia, C++, Rust
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