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# Quantum Computing Research Scientist - Quantum Error Correction - Senior Associate

- **Company:** JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Quantum Computing, Rust (Programming Language), Julia, Information Technology, Decoding
- **Published:** September 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/preview/210720540

## About the Role

* Ph.D. degree in computer science, physics, math, engineering, or related fields, or equivalent experience
 * Competency in 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 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 qualifications, capabilities, and skills

 * 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

## Description

* Develop circuit gadgets and protocols for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC)
 * Numerically investigate and optimize fault-tolerant gadgets for real-world execution on quantum computing hardware
 * Implement and experimentally validate 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


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