Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Systems Engineer

Remote

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Technergetics is seeking to hire a Systems Engineer to support the AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory) in Rome, New York and other DoD and Performer locations across the country. While a research background is a valuable skill set for this position, the objective is evaluation, not research.

This position will work closely with DARPA’s cross‑organizational Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) AFRL 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. International travel is required for some performers on this project. 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.

Citizenship Requirement: Due to the clearance required for this position, only U.S. citizens are eligible to apply, as outlined in Executive Order 12968:
Access to Classified Information. Eligibility for access to classified information may only be granted to employees who are United States citizens.

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.

• 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 or developed…