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Any advice on breaking into the industry? Would be really neat to work as a quantum research engineer, or software engineer on quantum computers!
by mendeza 6y ago
Any advice on breaking into the industry? Would be really neat to work as a quantum research engineer, or software engineer on quantum computers!
- whimsicalism 6y agoProbably a PhD
- erej 6y agoETH Zurich has a quantum engineering masters: https://master-qe.ethz.ch/ https://master-qe.ethz.ch/
- deeeeplearning 6y agoIn that Vein, so does USC. MSc in Quantum Information Science https://viterbigradadmission.usc.edu/programs/masters/msprograms/electrical-computer-engineering/ms-in-quantum-information-science/ https://viterbigradadmission.usc.edu/programs/masters/msprog...
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- ahelwer 6y agoGoogle, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft all have quantum programs which use "regular" software engineers in various roles - for example, writing software to support researchers working in the labs. That's what I did for Microsoft. If you want to work on actual research yourself though, you'll probably need a PhD. There are some non-PhD positions that do research-adjacent work like simulating, implementing & refining researcher findings for the specific hardware the company is developing, but those are quite competitive/difficult to get (I tried!) Microsoft also has a fairly large team working on Q# and the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit. That would also involve research-adjacent things like efficiently compiling programs to specific quantum device layouts with appropriate error correction schemes, etc.