Quantum Computing Jobs

• London
• Hybrid
• Senior
• Permanent · Flexible

Develops and benchmarks quantum error-correcting codes and fault-tolerant protocols tailored to neutral-atom hardware, including decoder design, logical error models and error budgets. Builds and maintains QEC simulation and emulation tools, analyses experimental data, and provides QEC-driven inputs to future QPU architecture design. Involves writing technical reports and scientific articles and representing the company at international conferences.

Python

• Kidlington
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Designs, analyses and implements fault-tolerant architectures for scalable quantum computation, developing error-correcting codes, decoders and fault-tolerant gate constructions tailored to neutral atom hardware. Works with hardware, control and compiler teams to model noise, optimise syndrome extraction and define logical performance metrics, bridging QEC theory and experimental implementation.

• London
• Hybrid
• Mid-level

Develops novel quantum algorithms in computational topology and geometry, characterising resource requirements and noise-robustness, then implementing and optimising them on Quantinuum's quantum hardware using error mitigation and error correction. Works across the full quantum computing stack with hardware, QEC and software teams, and with academic and industry partners on quantum topological data analysis use cases.

pytket · Guppy · Qiskit

• Berkeley, United States
• Hybrid
• US$220,000 – US$250,000 pa
• Senior · manages people
• Permanent

Lead a cross-functional software engineering team building platforms for quantum device design, chip fabrication workflows, physics-informed data analysis, and QPU characterization. The role is hands-on, spanning team management, architecture, and data pipeline work with Python, AWS, and streaming tools, while partnering closely with quantum hardware, fabrication, and research teams.

Kafka · Kinesis · Spark Streaming +7

• 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

• 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

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior

Owns a group of non-realtime device controllers end to end, from API design and implementation to rollout and operational health, for hardware such as cryogenic compressors, vacuum pumps, lasers and cameras. Controllers are written in Rust on Linux, using gRPC/REST and instrument protocols like SCPI, Modbus, serial and Ethernet, working closely with systems teams and quantum scientists.

Rust · Linux · gRPC +5

• Oxford
• Hybrid
• Senior

Hands-on staff engineering role building the control plane that schedules and prioritises quantum programs, arbitrates exclusive hardware access, streams results and records everything that ran across a fleet of trapped-ion quantum computers. Work spans Rust services, PostgreSQL persistence, crash recovery and scheduling frameworks, with deep diagnosis of live-system failures.

Rust · gRPC · REST +6

• Exeter
• £21,805 pa
• Entry level
• Contract

A 3.5-year PhD modelling nonlinear quantum optomechanical devices, focusing on suspended graphene resonators coupled to superconducting microwave cavities. The student develops analytical and numerical models of device dynamics, examines limitations like parasitic coupling and decoherence, and designs protocols for non-classical mechanical states, working with theorists and experimentalists.

Graphene Resonators · Superconducting Microwave Cavities · Phononic Crystals

• Kidlington
• Hybrid
• Mid-level
• Permanent

Designs, implements and optimises quantum algorithms for simulation, optimisation and hybrid quantum-classical workloads, working with hardware, control and research teams to turn theory into executable applications. Deploys software optimisations to the Superstaq cloud platform using industry-grade engineering practices, supports customers, and contributes to research publications and commercial proposals.

Superstaq

• Haywards Heath
• On-site
• Permanent

Operate, monitor and maintain ion-trap quantum computing hardware and experimental systems, running calibration, optimisation and characterisation of quantum hardware and control systems. Work closely with physicists and engineering teams to integrate and test new hardware, collecting and analysing experimental data to support performance and troubleshooting.

• Glasgow
• On-site
• £47,389 – £58,225 pa
• Contract

Lead the commercial development of a compact cold-atom clock physics package, translating university research into a viable product. The role is based at CPI-TMD in Hayes after an initial 8-12 month placement at the University of Strathclyde, working with academic researchers and industrial engineers.

Cold-Atom Clock · Microwave Amplifiers · Power Systems

• 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

• Warrington
• £73,300 – £86,100 pa
• Senior

Translate computational tasks into abstract quantum-algorithm specifications, analyse asymptotic performance, and define problem instances beyond classical reach. Work with the Compilation team on explicit implementations and resource estimates, and lead research programs with industrial and academic partners across fault-tolerant photonic quantum computing.

Python · C++

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

Two postdoctoral research positions at a new institute probing the interface of quantum information theory and gravity, using quantum technologies to investigate the quantum nature of spacetime. The roles sit within a collaborative environment spanning physics, mathematics, computer science and philosophy, working with several theory and experimental groups.