Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher Job Albany area,New York USA,Engineering

Opportunity Overview:

Technergetics is seeking to hire up to five mid-level to senior-level Physicists, Mathematicians, Logisticians, Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Operations Research experts. While a research background is a valuable and applicable skillset for these positions, the objective of them is evaluation, not research.

These positions will work closely with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA)’s cross-organizational Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) team to review, validate, and document approaches enabling revolutionary advances in design, engineering, testing, and evaluation in the domain of fault-tolerant quantum computing and exploring computational workflows that include quantum computing procedures. The primary goal of the QBI program is to determine if any emerging approaches to quantum computing can achieve industrially useful operation exponentially faster than conventional predictions.

Salary Range: $75,000-$150,000 annually. The successful candidate’s salary will heavily depend on how many position qualifications the candidate meets, in addition to education and experience. This is a full-time exempt position.

Remote performance is expected for this position and Technergetics will consider candidates from across the United States. Regardless of location, a successful candidate can expect to travel to the Washington DC area (DARPA), and Support or Performer sites across the country 10%-40% of any given month. Daily activities include frequent VTC meetings and may also require limited/periodic nonstandard work hours to accommodate meetings with team members and Performers across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

and Duties

The day-to-day activities of DARPA’s QBI team include performing tasks to identify, select, capture, evaluate, and document the metrics and approaches that DARPA’s commercial Performers are developing and applying to build fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers (USQC). The QBI team is responsible for generating and executing plans to assess the timeline, performance and operation metrics, and plausibility of each Performer’s technology. Candidates will verify a Performer’s ability to build a USQC that operates as intended, and they will document, report, and justify the findings.

1. Review and Evaluation

Rapidly digest large quantities of complex Performer-specific technical details, perform relevant independent evaluations, and generate standardized Government artifacts summarizing independent assessments of that material
Evaluate quantum computing architectures, devices, algorithms, and applications including utility and maturity
Identify Performer subsystems and components required to successfully design and construct the system
Discover, develop, implement, execute, evaluate, analyze, articulate, and justify models and simulations at the component, subsystem, and system levels
Assess DARPA and Performer requirements; capture and document the level of maturity of these elements
Identify, assess, and capture design, development, and integration risk
Identify the Performer’s interface approach
- For efforts with an existing Interface Control Document (ICD), review the information and identify any shortcomings. It may be necessary to convert the Performer-provided ICD to a common framework identified/developed by the Government evaluation team.
- For Performer efforts that do not have an existing Interface Control Document, assist the Performer to track system interfaces through an ICD or similar document.

2. Documentation and Reporting

Assist non-traditional performers to complete design reviews
Participate in system concept and readiness reviews
Perform prototype subsystem System Requirements Review (SRR) through Final Design Review (FDR) and prototype construction
Assist with diverse evaluation and documentation activities
Identify, implement, and apply standardized Government and systems engineering products, practices, and documentation

3. Professionalism and Teamwork

Work with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, physicists, scientists, engineers, and subject matter experts to identify problems and synthesize solutions which can be integrated into preexisting workflows and processes
Discover, develop, and lead novel workflows to enhance and improve evaluation processes as new Performers are added to the program
Cultivate a professional and respectful environment of cooperation by listening and considering the views of others.
Be willing and able to seek opportunities for collaboration with personnel from other functional units (finance, contracting, etc.) and other technical areas of participating organizations to accomplish work-related activities.

Education and

Certifications:

This project requires, at minimum, graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree in a Science, Mathematics or Engineering discipline.

A Master of Science degree or PhD in Engineering, Logistics, Computer…