Quantum Error Correction Research Scientist Intern

NVIDIA

Quantum Error Correction Research Scientist Intern at NVIDIA developing automation pipelines for quantum computing research. Collaborating on AI-driven automation for high-performance quantum error correction codes.

Posted 5/21/2026internshipRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesEntry Level💰 $20 - $71 per hourWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing automated quantum error correcting code discovery protocols and pipelines.
Using AI and automation to identify novel quantum error correcting codes that achieve high-performance across encoding rate, error suppression, and system realizability.
Integrating various classical machine learning methods for identifying high-performance code constructions, building bespoke machine learning models tailored to high-performance code design, and developing machine learning-based decoders for topological and/or QLDPC codes, with an emphasis on improving decoding accuracy, scalability, and adaptability to quantum logic settings.
Building out methods to identify and evaluate high-performance error correcting codes and decoders that directly incorporate hardware constraints of various types of physical systems.
Analyzing and evaluating the performance of fault-tolerant circuits implementing quantum error correcting logic and memory using analysis and simulation tools.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Pursuing a Master's or PhD in Physics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
Background in quantum computing fundamentals, especially the fundamentals of quantum error correction, stabilizer codes, coding theory, and decoders.
Solid proficiency in Python or similar scientific programming language experience.
Good teamwork, communication, and documentation skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

quantum error correctionmachine learningPythoncoding theorydecodersfault-tolerant circuitssimulation toolsautomated protocolshigh-performance code designerror suppression

Soft Skills

teamworkcommunicationdocumentation

Certifications

Master's degreePhD