Principal Quantum Engineer

Required/minimum qualifications  

• Doctorate in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR Master's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 6+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR equivalent experience. 

• As stated in the job posting, this position requires verification of citizenship or other protected status to meet legal requirements of the role. If the role requires US citizenship, as indicated in the job description, a valid US passport must be provided to verify your citizenship. If the role requires US Person status, as indicated in the job description, US citizens must provide a valid US passport for verification while lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may complete this verification using green cards or other status documents, as applicable.

Other Requirements:  

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:   

• • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.   

• • Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide either proof of their country of citizenship or proof of their U.S. permanent residency or other protected status (e.g., under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate’s citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable.  

• Ability to work in an “AI-first” environment using modern AI tools to accelerate discovery through both hardware and software development. 

• Ability to design and build AI agents/copilots that assist with experiment setup, log triage, measurement report generation, protocol templating, and knowledge retrieval (e.g. instrument manuals, design docs).  

Additional or preferred qualifications  

• Doctorate in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR Master's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 8+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Engineering, or related field AND 12+ years experience in industry or in a research and development environment  

• • OR equivalent experience. 

• Demonstrated technical leadership on complex, multi-disciplinary hardware programs 

• Research experience in atomistic and materials modeling in a commercial or academic setting.  

• Experience with first-principles simulations (e.g., DFT) and molecular dynamics for materials and interfaces. 

• Familiarity with modeling dielectric materials, defects, diffusion, and interfaces. 

• Simulation experience of superconducting and semiconducting materials and their interfaces. 

• Experience modeling finite-temperature dynamics and transport in materials (e.g., diffusion, reactions, amorphization) using MD and related methods. 

• Proficiency with high performance computing environments. 

• Experience with collaborative code development in Python.  

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