Quantum Computing Jobs

• Warrington
• On-site
• £50,000 – £56,000 pa
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Mechanical design role focused on precision hardware for optical quantum computing, covering enclosure and packaging design, thermal management, simulation and validation. Works closely with photonics, systems and architecture teams plus external suppliers, taking concepts from prototype build toward manufacturable systems.

Silicon Photonics · Fibre Optics · Cryogenics +1

• Warrington
• £50,000 – £57,000 pa
• Mid-level

Designs RF and high-speed electronics for controlling and reading out quantum photonic hardware, including electro-optic modulator drivers, SNSPD readout and low-latency control systems. Works alongside photonics and quantum teams, with FPGA-based design, debugging and lab measurement of complex cryogenic hardware.

FPGA · ASIC · SNSPD

• London

A speculative general-interest application rather than a defined role, inviting candidates with an interest or experience in quantum technologies to submit details for future openings. Work spans quantum hardware and software, including quantum chemistry, AI, machine learning/QML, encryption, QNLP and algorithms, across London, Cambridge and Oxford.

Quantinuum

• London
• Entry level
• Internship

Registering interest for ad-hoc internship positions lasting 3-6 months, mostly focused on specific projects or client collaborations rather than a formal summer programme. Work areas span quantum software development, chemistry, machine learning, algorithms, cybersecurity/encryption and hardware, with candidates ideally holding or pursuing a Master's or PhD.

Quantum Computing

• Remote); within Belgium, France, Netherlands, UK, Germany. Some travel to our offices will be required from time-to-time
• Hybrid

Speculative application for a deep-tech startup building a RISC-V MCU-based subsystem with post-quantum cryptography algorithms and security features. Successful candidates collaborate directly with founders and inventors, working across data science, optimisation and AI in the semiconductor space, with occasional travel to offices.

RISC-V · MCU

• Haywards Heath
• Hybrid
• Permanent

Designs and simulates quantum error correction protocols, tailoring them to hardware strengths and characterising physical qubit noise profiles. Performs resource estimation for large-scale applications and advises on hardware and software control choices to optimise error correction performance in the near and far term.

• Haywards Heath
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Design and develop next-generation microfabricated Paul traps for scalable quantum computers, working with users to determine suitable layouts and acting as technical liaison with ion trap manufacturers. Perform electromagnetic and thermo-mechanical analysis and simulation, and collaborate with package designers on assembly procedures. The role also involves documenting designs and simulations.

Paul Traps

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior

Validates and optimises trapped-ion quantum computers, prototyping coherent control and cooling schemes, calibrating and benchmarking qubit gates, and validating emerging trap technologies with integrated electronics and photonics. Involves coding and debugging experiments in Python or Rust and documenting findings within a fast-moving UK science team.

Python · Rust

• Berkeley, United States
• Hybrid
• US$190,000 – US$225,000 pa
• Lead · manages people

Lead a cross-functional team building next-generation superconducting quantum hardware, proposing new technical directions and designing experiments to improve performance and scalability. Own delivery of key quantum technologies, using cryogenic systems, RF and time-domain measurement, and Python to close performance gaps.

Python · cQED Simulation Tools

• Berkeley, United States
• Hybrid
• US$175,000 – US$200,000 pa
• Senior

Lead experimental programs to characterize, calibrate and optimize two-qubit gates on tunable-coupler superconducting processors, isolating error sources such as leakage, crosstalk and decoherence. Develop pulse shaping, dynamical decoupling and automated calibration methods that scale across hundreds of qubit pairs, feeding findings back into device design and fabrication.

QuTiP · Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services

• London
• £44,861 – £55,099 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Two postdoctoral Research Fellow positions at the newly established David Potter Institute for Quantum Information and Spacetime, working at the interface of quantum information theory and gravity to probe the quantum nature of spacetime. The roles sit within a highly collaborative environment spanning Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy and Science and Technology Studies, involving several theory groups plus an experimental group. Posts are initially funded for two years, starting October 2027 or earlier by arrangement.

• London
• £44,861 – £55,099 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Postdoctoral role developing and applying tensor network methods to quantum and classical systems, deploying them on both classical and quantum hardware. Based in Prof Andrew Green's group at the London Centre for Nano and Quantum, with collaboration across UK institutions and international partners, plus research secondments. Fixed-term for two years.

• Kidlington
• Hybrid · 3 days in office
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Experimental AMO physicist role focused on translating product requirements into atomic system designs for quantum RF sensor systems. Involves modelling, simulation, testing and integrating opto-mechanical systems, electronics and software into quantum devices, working closely with a multidisciplinary team of physicists and engineers.

• London
• On-site
• £50,733 – £62,001 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

Designs optimised driving schemes for noise-resilient entangling gates with trapped ions, supporting an experimental partner in Innsbruck and a theory partner in Sofia. Combines analytical and numerical optimal control methods to identify and overcome imperfections limiting gate fidelities at finite temperature and without accurate calibration.

• Birmingham
• Entry level
• Contract

A theoretical physics PhD project studying out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics and how thermodynamics emerges from it. The work combines analytical and numerical methods from quantum many-body physics, quantum information, quantum integrability and quantum many-body chaos, supervised by Dr Bruno Bertini.