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Quantum System Specialist

Atlanta, GA · On-site

$100 - $125/hr

The Quantum System Specialist position is the acting frontline Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Quantum ERP software. This position works closely with the Senior Quantum Administrator in maintaining ...

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Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.

$150 - $200/hr

Xanadu's mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere ... and non-specialist audiences. * Strong self-management skills to balance individual project ...

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Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Hinesville, GA · On-site

$80 - $100/hr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in at Fort Stewart, GA. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

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Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Jacksonville, FL

$75K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in Jacksonville, FL. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

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ARLIS Quantum Research Professional

College Park, MD · On-site

$17.75 - $24.50/hr

ARLIS Quantum Research Professional (Open Rank - Faculty Research Specialist, Research Scientist, or Research Engineer) This is an evergreen job posting inviting qualified candidates to apply for ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Jacksonville, FL

$75K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in Jacksonville, FL. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

Quantum Sky

$85K - $95K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in Aviano, Italy. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Jacksonville, FL · On-site

$80K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in Jacksonville, FL. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Fort Stewart, GA · On-site

$80K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in at Fort Stewart, GA. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Fort Stewart, GA

$80K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in at Fort Stewart, GA. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Fort Stewart, GA · On-site

$80K - $85K/yr

Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in at Fort Stewart, GA. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency (DHA ...

Quantum Sky

$85K - $95K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in Aviano, Italy. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency ...

Quantum Sky

Network Specialist

Fort Stewart, GA

$80K - $85K/yr

Description Quantum Sky is searching for a Network Specialist to support our NE&S contract in at Fort Stewart, GA. The Network Specialist ensures that the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health ...

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Quantum Fault-Tolerant Architecture Specialist

Zapata, TX • On-site

Zapata Quantum
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Full-time

Posted 13 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Own the roadmap for translating logical circuits into fault-tolerant operations, layouts, schedules, and physical implementations.

  • Lead the development of software components and APIs for code geometry, logical operations, syndrome extraction, decoding, routing, scheduling, and magic-state factories.

  • Build estimators for physical qubits, runtime, space-time volume, throughput, failure probability, and uncertainty.

Job description

About the role
We are seeking a Quantum Fault-Tolerant Architecture Specialist to lead development of the software stack that maps logical quantum circuits to executable fault-tolerant implementations. You will own the architecture roadmap, compilation methodology, and physical resource-estimation models across different codes and architecture paradigms.
This high-ownership role sits at the boundary of quantum error correction, architecture, and software. You will define fault-tolerant semantics, reference implementations, error budgets, and validation criteria; guide a compiler engineer building production infrastructure; and partner with quantum algorithm scientists on key workloads. You will have access to advisors including Austin Fowler and Alexandru Paler, with opportunities to publish and contribute to open-source tools. This position is classified as exempt under applicable wage and hour laws.
What you'll do
  • Own the roadmap for translating logical circuits into fault-tolerant operations, layouts, schedules, and costed physical implementations
  • Develop code-aware lowering and resource models for surface, qLDPC, color, and emerging codes under explicit hardware, connectivity, and noise assumptions
  • Lead software components and APIs for code geometry, logical operations, syndrome extraction, decoding, routing, scheduling, and magic-state factories
  • Build reproducible estimators for physical qubits, runtime, space-time volume, throughput, failure probability, and uncertainty
  • Benchmark decoders, QEC simulations, logical error rates, and architecture tradeoffs
  • Define fault-tolerant IR constructs, backend passes, tests, and specifications with the compiler engineer on the team
  • Co-design resource estimates with algorithm scientists for cryptographic, chemistry, and simulation workloads
  • Track emerging codes, gates, decoders, and architectures; deliver recommendations through software, publications, technical reports, and program deliverables

Qualifications
  • PhD or equivalent in a related field, with research focused on quantum error correction or fault-tolerant quantum computing
  • Established record in code design, decoding, fault-tolerant logical operations, architecture, or compilation
  • Deep command of stabilizer and subsystem codes, syndrome extraction, logical errors, and code-family tradeoffs
  • Ability to derive physical qubit counts, runtime, and space-time volume from a logical workload and failure target
  • Hands-on Python and experience building research-quality QEC, compiler, simulation, or resource-estimation software
  • Experience evaluating decoders via Monte Carlo simulation, logical-error analysis, and extrapolation
  • Systems understanding of logical operations, feed-forward, routing, scheduling, magic-state supply, classical decoding, and hardware constraints
  • Ability to set a roadmap, expose assumptions, collaborate across disciplines, and communicate clearly

Preferred Experience
  • Substantive contributions to open-source QEC or fault-tolerant compilation tools such as tqec, Stim, Qualtran, Bench-Q, or comparable systems
  • Expertise beyond a single code family, especially qLDPC or color codes, code switching or gauge fixing, transversal gates, lattice surgery, or modular fault-tolerant architectures
  • Experience with hardware-aware QEC, real-time or accelerated decoding, and physical error models for superconducting, neutral-atom, trapped-ion, or photonic platforms
  • Familiarity with compiler IRs and verification techniques (for example QIR/MLIR, equivalence checking, property-based testing, SMT, Lean, or Coq)
  • Experience with government-funded research programs

About Zapata Quantum
Zapata Quantum is shaping the future of quantum computing: setting the standards for what's viable, valuable, and worth building. The Company powers quantum applications across cryptography, pharmaceuticals, finance, materials discovery, defense, and beyond, translating cutting-edge research into real-world impact.
Zapata is the only organization to have contributed across every technical area of DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking program, giving it a uniquely comprehensive view of what it takes to make quantum computing work in practice. Now restructured and sharply focused, Zapata Quantum stands alone as the only publicly traded, pure-play quantum software company fully dedicated to unlocking quantum's commercial potential.
We're rebuilding at a pivotal moment for the industry-bringing together a team that will help define how quantum delivers value in the real world, with the opportunity for meaningful ownership as we shape the commercial path forward.

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