Research Scientist, Qubit Readout

Minimum qualifications:

• PhD in physics, electrical engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, constructing, or maintaining scientific apparatuses (e.g., cryostats, microscopes, electronics, sample packages, microwave signal chains, optical setups).
• Experience working in multiple disciplines (fabrication, electronics, software, cryogenics, modeling, measurement) in support of project goals.
• Experience using software for scientific apparatus control and data analysis.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with microwave, RF, optoelectronic, optomechanical or optical control or measurement.
• Experience with control or characterization of quantum devices.
• Experience with cryogenic or vacuum environments and equipment.
• Experience with design and layout of microfabricated devices.
• Experience publishing in scientific journals or presenting at conferences.

About the job

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies. From creating experiments and prototyping implementations to designing new architectures, our research scientists work on real-world problems that span the breadth of computer science, such as machine (and deep) learning, data mining, natural language processing, hardware and software performance analysis, improving compilers for mobile platforms, as well as core search and much more.

As a Research Scientist, you'll also actively contribute to the wider research community by sharing and publishing your findings, with ideas inspired by internal projects as well as from collaborations with research programs at partner universities and technical institutes all over the world.

The full potential of quantum computing will be unlocked with a large-scale computer capable of complex, error-corrected computations. Google Quantum AI's mission is to build this computer and unlock solutions to classically intractable problems. Our roadmap is focused on advancing the capabilities of quantum computing and enabling meaningful applications.

Responsibilities

• Characterize the performance of readout and reset in superconducting qubit devices and work with theorists to model their behavior.
• Write software implementing characterization and other experiments, and work with automation experts to merge that software into a mainline automated calibration and characterization system.
• Conceive of and develop readout and reset hardware.
• Communicate scientific results to the Quantum AI team and to the broader scientific community.
• Through conferences and literature review, investigate and report on technological advances from academia and elsewhere that may enable faster, more accurate, and larger scale readout and reset.