Quantum System Performance Monitoring Intern

Job Description

Job Title: Quantum System Performance Monitoring Intern 2027. Location: Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve techniques for identifying performance drift and degradation in quantum processors.
• Help create automated methods for deciding when quantum systems should be recalibrated or when other corrective actions should be taken.
• Optimize quantum system parameters to improve performance, stability, and availability.
• Apply machine learning and AI techniques to quantum system monitoring and calibration when appropriate.
• Apply statistical analysis and optimization methods to experimental data;
• Analyze quantum system performance using data-driven approaches.
• Work with scientists and researchers on automated monitoring and calibration techniques.
• Depending on the project and background, work with experimental or time-series datasets.
• Contribute to anomaly detection, statistical inference, automated control, and parameter optimization.
• Analyze large experimental datasets and contribute to data-analysis pipelines.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or GED.
• Undergraduate-level familiarity with quantum physics and quantum computing.
• Knowledge of Python programming.
• Familiarity with numerical analysis and statistics.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent academic background.
• Graduate-level familiarity with quantum computing, numerical analysis, statistics, or related areas.
• Hands-on experience with experimental quantum systems.
• Experience with quantum-device characterization or calibration;
• Experience using the Qiskit Python package.
• Experience developing or applying machine-learning, statistical, or optimization methods to experimental or time-series data.
• Familiarity with anomaly detection, statistical inference, automated control, or parameter optimization.
• Experience working with large experimental datasets or data-analysis pipelines.

Benefits and Compensation:

• Projected annual compensation range of $89,280 to $163,680, based on a full-time annualized schedule.
• Eligible Supplemental 1 employees may receive up to 8 paid holidays.
• Minimum of 56 hours of paid sick time.
• Access to the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan;
• Paid family medical leave and disability benefits may be available to eligible employees where required by law.
• Access to IBM's learning and professional development resources.

Other Information:

• This is a fixed-term co-op/internship position.
• On-site position in Yorktown Heights, New York.
• No travel is required.
• IBM will not provide visa sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must be able to work without current or future visa sponsorship.