Quantum Performance Engineer

ParTec AG is a fast-growing, agile technology and consulting company and for over 25 years has been a leading provider of modular high-performance computing systems. In addition to building complete computer systems, we offer our customers and partners software solutions, support, and consulting services.

Our ambition is to become Europe’s leading provider of Artificial Intelligence systems, along with our offerings for High Performance Computing and Quantum Computing solutions that enable our customers to grow efficiently, cost-effectively, and continuously in an ever faster changing world and to adapt to future challenges and technologies.

ParTec seeks a highly motivated

Quantum Performance Engineer

Job Summary

This position involves working with existing and emerging quantum benchmarking algorithms, to measure and optimise their performance on quantum simulators and real quantum hardware, as well as projecting performance to future quantum systems. The position offers exciting opportunities for collaborating with world top quantum computing providers.

Primary duties and responsibilities

Complete performance-based benchmark tests in a timely manner, often under short deadlines, to support customer workloads as well as internal product decisions.
Continuously monitor and analyze performance metrics to identify trends, patterns, and areas of improvement.
Generate reports and provide insights on performance to the management (experience with MS Office tools is required).
Understand quantum computer architectural components and features, as well as performance estimation methodologies used to provide required information, and performance assessments for benchmarks on future ParTec and competitive systems.
Recommend configurations and settings for different types of hardware to be used by ParTec customers.
Maintain current knowledge of competitors’ and ParTec’s products and relevant quantum performance optimization techniques to ensure ParTec’s ability to provide high-quality system and application performance results.
Collaborate closely with colleagues across the company, as well as peers outside the company, to produce optimal performance results of quantum benchmarking codes run on ParTec platforms.
Building, debugging, running, optimizing and benchmarking popular existing and emerging quantum algorithms to benchmark QPU scale, quality and speed, as well as application areas such as optimisation, machine learning and chemistry.

Required skills and experience

Master degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, or similar.
Experience in quantum benchmarking, quantum circuit design and optimisation, quantum compilers, or a related area.
The ability to convey highly technical materials to a variety of audiences both inside and outside of ParTec.
Keen analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
Desire and ability to work with leading edge technology.
Ability to work under demanding deadlines.
Ability to coordinate multiple tasks in a fast-paced challenging environment.
Fluency (written & spoken) in English is required.

Desired skills and experience

Experience with Qiskit, Pennylane, Cirq or other quantum computing frameworks.
Experience with quantum benchmarks, e.g. GHZ, QV, CLOPS, VQE chemistry, QAOA maxcut.
Experience with running quantum algorithms on real devices.
Experience with simulator backends, e.g. Qiskit Aer, Pennylane Lightning.
Experience with custom noise models.
Experience with hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.
Experience with Python.
Familiarity with C, C++.
Familiarity with machine learning or statistics.
Familiarity with Linux and shell scripting.
Familiarity with using HPC systems.
Desire and ability to quickly learn new skills.

Job conditions

Flexible work hours, flexible workplace including home office
Office environment available at our German headquarter in Munich
Occasional travels, mostly to destinations in Europe

This is an exciting opportunity in one of the most advanced and dynamically developing fields of computing.

If you are interested in working with us, please send your application with resume and salary expectations to career.sales@par-tec.com.