Job Summary:
JPMorganChase is a leading financial institution seeking a Vice President quantum computing researcher within the Global Technology Applied Research (GTAR) team. The role involves developing and optimizing protocols for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation and implementing these protocols for experimental validation on quantum computing hardware.
Responsibilities:
• Lead a research agenda for the advancement and validation of state-of-the-art methods for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation on existing and near-term quantum computing hardware
• Lead the development of circuit gadgets and protocols for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC)
• Lead the numerical investigation and optimization of fault-tolerant gadgets for real-world execution on quantum computing hardware
• Lead the implementation and experimental validation of protocols for universal FTQC on quantum computing hardware
• Document analytical, numerical, and experimental results in scientific papers
• Implement, maintain, and manage a codebase that colleagues without expertise in quantum error correction (QEC) or fault-tolerance can use to run quantum algorithms fault-tolerantly on quantum computing hardware
Qualifications:
Required:
• Ph.D. degree in computer science, physics, math, engineering, or related fields, or equivalent experience, plus at least 2 years of relevant experience (industry or postdoc)
• Fluency with the basics of qubit-based stabilizer QEC: stabilizer and subsystem codes; CSS codes; parity check matrices; logical and gauge operators; thresholds and pseudo-thresholds; Clifford and non-Clifford gates; Shor, Steane, and Knill QEC; code distance and effective (circuit) distance
• Experience with analytical and numerical circuit-level investigation of QEC and FTQC: constructing circuits for QEC cycles, state preparation, and logical operations; specifying noise models; building detector error models; running numerical simulations; decoding; computing logical error rates
• Experience in at least one of: designing fault-tolerant gadgets, magic-state distillation or cultivation, generalized code surgery, code adapters and extractors, dynamical codes, ZX calculus
• Experience building quantum circuits in a major software framework such as Cirq, Qiskit, or Pytket
• Fluency in at least one of: Python, Julia, C++, Rust
• Strong oral and written communication skills, strong scientific publication record
Preferred:
• Experience developing a successful research program focused on the development of protocols for universal FTQC
• Experience designing fault-tolerant gadgets for state preparation and logical gates
• Understanding of magic-state distillation and cultivation protocols
• Understanding of generalized code surgery, code adapters and extractors
• Understanding of concatenated code constructions and code families
• Understanding of dynamical codes
• Understanding of ZX calculus and fault-tolerant rewrites and experience with circuit-level quantum compilation
Company:
With a history tracing its roots to 1799 in New York City, JPMorganChase is one of the world's oldest, largest, and best-known financial institutions—carrying forth the innovative spirit of our heritage firms in global operations across 100 markets. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.