Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Systems Engineer

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🕒 April 1

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $75k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

⚙️ Systems Engineer

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Technergetics

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51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏛️ Government

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Government • SaaS

Technergetics is a technology company delivering innovative and agile solutions for various industries, with a strong focus on serving the U. S. Department of Defense. Known for its expertise in digital mobility, logistics, artificial intelligence, and situational awareness, Technergetics develops cutting-edge software and tools that address complex mission challenges for their clients. The company operates on collaborative projects with defense departments like the Army Tech Marketplace and offers platforms such as JetDash for mobile delivery solutions and WingmanAI for enhancing AI development in secure environments. With a history of successful product deployments and a deep understanding of operational software delivery, Technergetics continues to be a trusted partner for government technology initiatives.

📋 Description

• Support the AFRL (Airforce Research Laboratory) in Rome, New York and other DoD and Performer locations across the country • Review, validate, and document approaches enabling revolutionary advances in design, engineering, testing, and evaluation in the domain of fault-tolerant quantum computing • Explore computational workflows that include quantum computing procedures • Determine if any emerging approaches to quantum computing can achieve industrially useful operation exponentially faster than conventional predictions • Perform tasks to identify, select, capture, evaluate, and document the metrics and approaches that DARPA’s commercial Performers are developing and applying to build fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers (USQC) • Generate and execute plans to assess the timeline, performance and operation metrics, and plausibility of each Performer’s technology • Verify a Performer’s ability to build a USQC that operates as intended, and document, report, and justify the findings • Rapidly digest large quantities of complex Performer-specific technical details, perform relevant independent evaluations, and generate standardized Government artifacts summarizing independent assessments • Evaluate quantum computing architectures, devices, algorithms, and applications including utility and maturity • Identify Performer subsystems and components required to successfully design and construct the system • Discover, develop, implement, execute, evaluate, analyze, articulate, and justify models and simulations at the component, subsystem, and system levels • Assess DARPA and Performer requirements; capture and document the level of maturity of these elements • Identify, assess, and capture design, development, and integration risk • Identify the Performer’s interface approach and review any existing information

🎯 Requirements

• At minimum one year of professional experience in physics, mathematics, computer engineering, operations research or closely related position in addition to education requirements • Knowledge and experience with standard Systems Engineering (SE) frameworks and practices (SysML, DoDAF, etc.) • Knowledge of benchmarking methodologies, performance analysis, and GPU/CPU optimization • Experience with secure infrastructure, air-gapped environments, and data transfer policies • Familiar with typical DoD reviews, including technical review products and organizational structure • Experience with development/execution of modeling and simulation tools and related software tools and techniques • Ability to leverage mathematics and statistics to analyze, visualize, and explain complex and unstructured data • Comfortable speaking to diverse audiences; capable of organizing and conveying abstract/complex ideas and concepts • Able to expediently generate focused and detailed work product based on evolving/general/nebulous task requests • Understand USAF/DoD structure and current strategic guidance; able to follow and respect the chain of command • Comfortable engaging in frequent and recurring video teleconference (VTC) meetings (camera on) • Candidates absolutely must be capable of working independently to produce timely products, with a mindset that embraces the flexibility required to define and follow the procedures for DARPA’s new and evolving QBI program • Knowledge and experience with photonic principles, devices and circuits, integrated photonic chips, and similar • Familiarity with quantum simulators (Qiskit, Cirq, QuTiP, etc.) and scientific data workflows • Knowledge and experience with superconductor principles, devices and circuits, integrated superconductor chips, and similar • Knowledge and experience of the principles and practices of using other viable quantum information modalities, such as solid-state devices, atomic systems, etc. for elements of scalable quantum computation • Experience planning, performing, and conducting experimental quantum research using computer simulations and mathematical models • Specific experience with quantum computing hardware, especially valuable if it is across multiple qubit modalities • Specific experience developing quantum algorithms designed for fault-tolerant quantum computers • Expertise in quantum resource estimation tools and techniques for analyzing quantum circuits • Experience or academic background in Quantum Error Correction and quantum fault tolerance

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, life, disability, dental, and vision insurance coverage • 401(k) policy with a 3% company contribution & 3% company match • Generous Paid Time Off (including a PTO “gift day” for your birthday) • 11 Federal Holidays per year • Three weeks paid maternity/paternity leave • Annual technology “allowances” • Referral bonuses • Professional recognition awards • Healthcare stipends • Tuition/education reimbursement