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Americas, United States, Yorktown Heights
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Posted 9 days ago
🏢 IBM
Role Type
Role Focus
Seniority
Employer Type
As a Research Scientist in Quantum Device Signal Delivery Test and Measurement, you will help IBM scale up quantum processors effectively. Your main goal is ensuring industry-leading signal integrity and reliability in the overall system during this expansion. You will also use your communication skills to collaborate with technical experts to solve the challenges of scaling superconducting quantum processors for fault tolerant computing.
Key Responsibilities
Enable the scaling up of quantum processors while ensuring industry-leading signal integrity and reliability of the overall system.
Communicate with physicists, engineers, and technicians to help solve technical challenges encountered when scaling up superconducting quantum processors for fault-tolerant computing.
Required Skills
Master's degree in physics, electrical engineering or a related field.
2 years of experience working with cryogenic microwave signal delivery or equivalent experience.
Experience operating dilution fridges or other 4K systems capable of reaching temperatures needed for superconducting materials.
Demonstrated communication ability by writing journal articles, thesis and giving live presentations.
Nice-to-have Skills
Doctorate degree (PhD) in physics, electrical engineering, or a related field.
Simulation experience in HFSS or other microwave software.
4 years of experience working in a superconducting electronics laboratory.
Experience working with superconducting or other qubits, including taking measurements such as T1, T2, and crosstalk.
Experience with low level DC measurements.
Technology Tags
The job focuses on scaling superconducting quantum processors and requires working in a superconducting electronics laboratory.
The role explicitly requires expertise in cryogenic microwave signal delivery and microwave simulation software (HFSS).
Required experience includes operating dilution fridges and working with cryogenic signal delivery systems.
This is central to ensuring signal integrity and performing reliable test and measurement on quantum devices.
The ultimate goal of the work is scaling processors to sizes needed for fault tolerant quantum computing.
The role involves taking standard device measurements such as T1, T2, and crosstalk, which are core benchmarking metrics.
Preferred experience includes simulation using HFSS or other microwave software for device simulation.