Research Scientist, Quantum Algorithms

Key Skills

Linear Algebra, Algorithms, Quantum computing, Cryptography

Job Description

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with quantum computing.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with research publications on the topic of quantum algorithms.
• Experience with research publications on either the topic of quantum error-correction, or near-term quantum computing.
• Experience with research publications on applications of quantum computers (e.g., in linear algebra, cryptography, quantum simulation, etc.).

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.

You'll work closely with the Quantum Error-Correction team to estimate and optimize the resources that would be required to realize these calculations on a fault-tolerant quantum computer. You'll also work closely with experimentalists on our team to implement some of our algorithms on existing quantum processors.

Google Research addresses challenges that define the technology of today and tomorrow. From conducting fundamental research to influencing product development, our research teams have the opportunity to impact technology used by billions of people every day.

Our teams aspire to make discoveries that impact everyone, and core to our approach is sharing our research and tools to fuel progress in the field -- we publish regularly in academic journals, release projects as open source, and apply research to Google products.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research to help clarify potential applications of quantum computers, and to develop methods that improve the viability of those applications.
• Implement algorithms for near-term quantum computers.
• Ascertain the resources required to implement algorithms for error-corrected quantum computers.
• Apply various areas of interest such as simulation, linear algebra, machine learning, differential equations, and cryptography.