Company: Imperial College London
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you design optimized driving patterns to realize noise-resilient gates for trapped ions, enabling high-fidelity entangling operations under realistic conditions. You will work within a European consortium, coordinating with partner experiments in Innsbruck and theory in Sofia to identify and mitigate fidelity losses. Using analytical and numerical methods, you will craft control solutions and validate them across collaboration partners. This position offers growth at a world-leading institution and immersion in a cross-disciplinary, industry-facing quantum technology project.
Pay / Benefits
- sector-leading career support for researchers
- diverse and inclusive work culture
- Athena SWAN Silver Award
- opportunity to grow in a world-leading institution
- full-time fixed-term role
- international collaboration
Responsibilities
- Design optimized driving patterns for noise-resilient trapped-ion gates
- Identify main sources of imperfections reducing gate fidelities in consortium experiments
- Develop optimal control solutions addressing identified imperfections
- Utilize analytical and numerical methods to support control design
- Collaborate regularly with experimental and theory partners across the consortium
Key requirements
- PhD in theoretical/numerical quantum information/quantum technologies
- Postdoc experience desirable but not required
- Strong interest in collaborative work and communicating with experimental partners
- Background in optimal control and its application to quantum-optical systems (ideally)
- collaboration
- communication
- teamwork
- optimal control
- quantum information
- numerical methods
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Posted: October 22nd, 2026