Senior Quantum Fault-Tolerance Architect (f/m/d) at eleQtron, Siegen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. A senior-level full time position in the Foundations & Concepts team, listed under hardware engineering.
Role Overview
As Senior Quantum Fault-Tolerance Architect (f/m/d), you will help shaping eleQtron’s long-term roadmap towards logical quantum computing, driving research activities in quantum error correction and fault tolerance, contributing to key architectural decisions, coordinating cross-functional efforts across hardware, software, system architecture and applications, and playing a leading role in building and growing the company’s fault-tolerance capability.
What you can expect from eleQtron
- Competitive salary: We value our team members and therefore provide remunerations that reflect this, additionally rewarding achievements.
- Flexible working hours: We offer personal freedom through a variety of flexible work schedules.
- Team spirit: In our international and diverse team, and with our regular team events, having fun at work is simply part of the game.
- Further development: We want to grow together and so we offer our team members’ needs-based, individualized further training as well as plenty of room for personal development.
- Wellness Package: We offer health-promoting benefits such as fitness programs like UrbanSportsClub to support your well-being.
- Moving Benefits: A warm welcome! We are happy to support employees who move for us with a bonus.
- At the forefront: Work at the forefront of technology, where academic research meets commercial applications.
- Modern workplace: We have ahigh-quality infrastructure with laboratory space, offices, and meeting rooms.
Responsibilities
- Develop and drive fault-tolerant quantum-computing strategies and logical architectures for trapped-ion MAGIC quantum processors.
- Lead hardware-aware quantum error-correction studies and guide architectural decisions for future processor generations.
- Coordinate realistic performance models connecting hardware characterization, circuit-level noise models, and logical performance metrics.
- Work closely with System Architecture, System Operations, Software Engineering, and Quantum Applications teams to support the co-design of future fault-tolerant quantum computers.
- Contribute to the development and mentoring of a growing fault-tolerance team while supporting eleQtron’s long-term technology roadmap.
Requirements
- PhD in Physics, Quantum Information and Computation, or a closely related field.
- Exceptional postdoctoral or industrial research experience in quantum error correction and, ideally, logical architecture design.
- Demonstrated scientific leadership and the ability to drive independent research activities.
- Ability to work effectively across theory, hardware, software, and engineering disciplines.
- Fluent communication in English
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