"Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act."
The application window will be open until at least February 6, 2026. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.
Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
Cambridge, MA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Mountain View, CA, USA; Goleta, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.
Minimum qualifications:
- PhD in Physics, Electrical Engineering, a related engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3 years of experience with Quantum Computing.
- Experience with superconducting qubits.
- One or more scientific publication submission(s) for conferences, journals, or public repositories.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), transmon qubits, fluxonium qubits, tunable couplers, or flux/charge noise analysis.
- Experience with collaborative software development.
- Experience collaborating with experimentalists on quantum projects.
- Understanding of two-qubit gates modeling, and qubit readout modeling.
About The Job
As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.
As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.
As a Research Scientist, you will play a critical role in modeling and understanding the performance of our superconducting qubit systems and their control electronics. You will be responsible for simulating single and two-qubit gates and readout processes, incorporating realistic environmental noise and limitations from both the quantum device and the control hardware. You will collaborate closely with hardware/electronics design and measurement teams to identify and model error sources that limit overall system performance. Your analysis will directly inform the development of next-generation qubits and control strategies to accelerate our progress toward a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer.
The full potential of quantum computing will be unlocked with a large-scale computer capable of complex, error-corrected computations. Google Quantum AI's mission is to build this computer and unlock solutions to classically intractable problems. Our roadmap is focused on advancing the capabilities of quantum computing and enabling meaningful applications.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $141,000-$202,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .
Responsibilities
- Simulate single and two-qubit gates and readout for superconducting qubits, incorporating realistic environmental noise (e.g., thermal noise, flux noise, charge noise) and Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP) control hardware constraints (e.g., amplitude and timing resolution, limited bandwidth, pulse distortion, crosstalk).
- Propose and analyze new gate and readout methods compatible with AQFP electronics.
- Collaborate with teams focused on design and measurement to model errors limiting Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) performance and develop improvement strategies.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .