quantum computing

The WACQT Research Arena – Quantum Computing (WARA‑QC) is seeking a Senior Quantum Computing Application Engineer to spearhead industry collaboration projects and bring quantum computing out of the lab and into real‑world applications.
In this role, you will lead interactions with industry partners through joint projects and work on relevant problems in close collaboration with subject‑matter experts. You will be involved in the entire development chain—from problem identification to delivering learning outcomes.
These projects aim to lower the barriers for Swedish industry to engage with quantum technologies and **accelerate the development of real‑world quantum computing applications.

The project

Future quantum computers will operate as distributed systems interconnected by quantum networks. In such systems, software layers must reason jointly about quantum computation and network-provided entanglement. However, current quantum software stacks largely abstract away the network, assuming ideal connectivity and ignoring dynamic network constraints.

ÉTS has been steadily building a quantum computing research powerhouse centered around a new quantum institute in downtown Montreal. We would be interested in recruiting mid- to late-career, active (!) researchers in quantum computing algorithms/tensor networks for a prestigious Canada Impact+ Research Chair, to be held with a faculty appointment at École de technologie supérieure which is part of the University of Quebec system.

As part of an interdisciplinary project team with researchers from bioinformatics you will work on quantum algorithms for drug discovery. Here, the focus lies on machine learning and optimization. Together with a dedicated partner from bioinformatics you will first survey pairs of drug discovery application problems and corresponding quantum algorithms, before you focus on promising candidates which are explored in more depth. In particular you will work on

About the Team:

Our interdisciplinary team consists of researchers with expertise in physics, chemistry, computer science, and mathematics. We focus on theoretical research in quantum computing algorithms, quantum chemistry applications, and quantum machine learning, while maintaining close collaboration with leading experimental groups.

Research Focus & Recent Highlights:

You will join a highly productive team working on cutting-edge problems. Our recent representative works (2025–2026) include:

Available to home and outstanding international applicants.

Quantum technologies are advancing rapidly, raising a central question for the field: Can quantum computers solve physically relevant problems better than classical computers? Understanding this requires overcoming theoretical challenges at the intersection of quantum information, many-body physics, and complexity theory.

This PhD project aims to explore the capabilities and limitations of quantum computation and develop quantum algorithms for tackling quantum problems.

Research on quantum error correction (QEC) or quantum error mitigation (QEM),
including subjects such as:

• topological codes, QLDPC codes, decoding, magic state generation,
• zero-noise extrapolation, probabilistic error cancellation, virtual distillation,
• hybrid QEC+QEM approaches