- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Senior
- $160K–$220K per year
Build systems that automate theoretical and computational research in quantum computing.
Compensation
The approximate base salary range for this position is $160,400 - $220,400. In addition to our base salary offerings, we also provide equity grants for all new hires.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the autoresearch platform, including programmable search strategies, agent and tool integration, and reliable execution of long-running experiments.
- Develop and evaluate search and optimization methods for generating, selecting, refining, and combining candidates under limited computational budgets.
- Collaborate with theorists and compiler researchers to translate research questions into search spaces, constraints, objectives, and executable evaluation procedures.
- Establish reproducible evidence of progress through correctness checks, strong baselines, noise-aware measurement, and independent validation; deliver useful discoveries and software improvements.
Requirements
- PhD in a relevant field (welcome but not required)
- Nice to have: LLM-guided search
- Nice to have: program synthesis
- Nice to have: autonomous research systems
- Nice to have: evolutionary computation