Quantum Scientst

Cambridge, UK | Full-time | Permanent

**About us**

Riverlane is the world’s first quantum engineering company. We are hardware obsessed, qubit agile and commercially driven. We’re a passionate team collaboratively tackling some of humanity’s biggest opportunities, from climate change to materials science and new drug discovery.
You will join our cross-disciplinary team of software developers, mathematicians, quantum information theorists, computational chemists and physicists - all world experts in their fields. Our collaborative, close-knit team has a track record of delivering high-quality R&D across the full quantum stack. As a growing company, you will have the freedom to think independently and creatively, as well as contribute to Riverlane’s business development.
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About the role*
**Requirements**:
**What you will do**
- Communicate results in the form of discussions and presentations to other team members and partners
- Build expertise in the field of quantum computing through discussions with colleagues, reading relevant literature and gaining practical experience
- Contribute to Riverlane’s international standing through writing scientific papers and presenting results at conferences as appropriate
- Interact and work with a wide range of academic and industry partners
- Use your knowledge about academic and commercial challenges to shape the research direction of the team
- Help develop research and business development proposals to win external funding
- Engage with the wider community through writing blogs and developing demonstrations

**What we need**
- Evidence of creative, high-quality academic work
- Good programming skills, with a proven capability of understanding technical material and translating it into code
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with a track record of communicating scientific results to colleagues and other audiences
- Experience working both independently and in a research team
- Desire to learn, with a capacity both to lead and follow

**Even better if you have**
- Experience in quantum software development and maintenance
- Understanding of quantum error correction
- Experience in quantum algorithms for fault-tolerant quantum computers

**Benefits**
We offer a competitive salary, private medical insurance, health cash plan, life assurance, equity options, and relocation costs.