Experimental Physicist ll (Coherence Measurement)

Experimental Physicist II (Coherence Measurement) Direct Hire/ Full time, Hybrid, Burnaby, BC CanadaD-Wave (NYSE: QBTS) is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software, and services, and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers—and the only company building both annealing quantum computers and gate-model quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing today to benefit business and society. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. D-Wave’s technology has been used by some of the world’s most advanced organizations including Mastercard, Deloitte, Davidson Technologies, ArcelorMittal, Siemens Healthineers, Unisys, NEC Corporation, Pattison Food Group Ltd., DENSO, Lockheed Martin, Forschungszentrum Jülich, University of Southern California, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Our company and its innovations have appeared in the pages of Time Magazine, Fast Company, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, INC Magazine and Wired. As of August 8, 2022, our company is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as $QBTS.

We are growing!

About the role:To support our growth, we are looking for a creative, energetic, and self-motivated Experimental Physicist to join our Processor Development (PD) team. The PD team is composed of experienced and talented superconducting designers, fabrication engineers, software developers and physicists who work together to create the processors at the heart of our quantum computer and are constantly pushing the boundaries of the technology of the future. In this challenging and exciting position, you will work with a multi-disciplinary team and regularly communicate and collaborate with other PD scientists, device designers, engineers, cryogenic experts and applications developers. You will contribute to our understanding of sources of noise and decoherence in our quantum annealing and gate model processors through careful measurement of fluxonium and other superconducting flux qubits.

In this role, you will:

• Create and execute experimental procedures, such as T1 and T2 protocols, analysis routines and noise models to characterize and understand coherence in superconducting flux qubits.
• Propose and develop parametric designs, materials changes and/or experimental methodologies to improve coherence and thereby performance for both quantum annealing and gate model processors.
• Investigate and diagnose interactions between superconducting circuits, IO, electronics, cryogenic elements, etc. that impact noise performance.
• Share your results and ideas with the broader PD team through regular and clear documentation.
• Create and contribute to Lisp software infrastructure for modeling, calibrating and operating qubits and processors.

About you:

• Ph.D. or M.Sc. in physics or a related discipline, or equivalent experimental research experience.
• Background in quantum information, control of quantum systems or magnetic resonance methods (such as NMR or ESR).
• Strong critical thinking and technical problem solving ability.
• Curiosity and persistence that enable you to learn new technical topics in depth, as evidenced by a deep understanding of your existing area(s) of expertise.
• Strong experience with software in the context of a physical lab – particularly in writing code to control experiments; software engineering skills would be an asset.
• A collaborative mindset and a demonstrated ability to work effectively on an interdisciplinary team and take shared accountability for its success.
• Excellent communication skills and experience with summarizing technical information for a broad audience.
• Ability to adapt to shifting priorities in a time-sensitive environment, while maintaining focus on challenging problems.
• Exceptional candidates will have a solid background in one or more of the following: superconducting devices, device physics, device manufacturing, noise models and characterization.