Senior Quantum Computing Scientist

4 weeks ago

Aldermaston, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Senior Quantum Computing Scientist

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package (depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience) A relocation package may be available (terms and conditions apply).

Experienced Physicists (PHD or graduates with post-grad experience): £38,000 - £50,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Senior Physicists (experienced physicists with qualifications coupled with experience in industry): £48,000 - £60,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Let us introduce the role

AWE is currently recruiting for a Senior or Experienced Quantum Computing Scientist to join our High-Performance Computing Group.

This role offers the opportunity to develop and apply your quantum computing skills to an area of national importance. AWE has a large and complex scientific computing capability, and we need to know where and when to adopt Quantum Computing (QC) approaches.

In this role you will become an AWE expert in one or more areas of QC, leading its development and the application of emerging quantum algorithms.

You will work with academics, supervising and steering collaborative work to develop those algorithms on both simulators and advanced hardware platforms. There is the potential for travel opportunities for collaboration and to attend conferences.

You will also engage with application teams such as nuclear and electron physics, material properties, fluid dynamics or other areas of solving PDEs to understand requirements and facilitate future adoption of the algorithms.

You will be responsible for assessing where and when (if at all) to adopt new quantum algorithms using relevant techniques evaluating quantum advantage. Working with the Quantum Technology (QT) teams you will champion and articulate the benefits of new QC to our applications teams leading their adoption.

This is an exciting opportunity to participate and shape the growing Quantum Capability at AWE.

Who are we looking for?

We'd need you to have a Postgraduate degree in Physics or a related subject with a focus on computational science. Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

For a Senior Physicist, extensive leadership experience

Quantum mechanics

Quantum Computing

Quantum Information Theory

Using Quantum Simulators

Materials modelling (e.g., DFT, DMFT)

Nuclear or Electron shell modelling

Fermion-Qubit Mappings

Fault-Tolerant Algorithms

In addition, for the Senior role, you will be expected to demonstrate some of

Collaborative working and good communication skills

Stakeholder management

Technical Leadership

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.

Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).

Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.

Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.

Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.

Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).

Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.

Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Important things you need to know:

You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.

Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process

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