Quantum Research Engineer

Description Job Description:The Leidos Innovation Center (LInC) Advanced Analytics team has an opening for a Researcher Scientist/Engineer with a background in software development and quantum technologies / quantum information to work in Arlington, VA. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping grow the Leidos quantum technologies portfolio of contract and internal R&D projects, benchmarking, and operational prototypes. Fun stuff you will do on this job: Applying quantum technologies to help execute research and development programs in information sciences, information operations, data sciences, sensor systems, and space systems among others Working within matrix organization to provide software engineering support of operationalizing state-of-the-art algorithms into different internal and contract R&D projects. Provide support in task decomposition for our internal and contract R&D projects and help the project Principal Investigators manage task execution. Customers are DOD including DARPA, IARPA, and service R&D labs. Conduct research spikes for analytical prototype development and benchmarking custom metrics; then, create and execute plan to operationalize prototype into contract and internal R&D projects.This is you: Advanced degree in physics, computer science or a related discipline. A PhD is highly desirable with 6 years software engineering experience building and benchmarking software prototypes, to include metrics development Strong technical writing skills with experience in writing advanced technical proposals Provide business development support to help grow Arlington Branch's project portfolio DoD Secret Security Clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph security clearanceYou will wow us even more if you have these skills: Experience researching quantum sensing and/or quantum information technology Experience with cloud-based architectures and container orchestration Experience operationalizing machine learning and/or autonomy, and analytical capabilities Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing Experience with big data applications Experience with microservice architectures DoD Top Secret ClearanceLInCExternal Referral EligibleD3PExternal Referral Bonus:EligibleExternal Referral Bonus $:$5000.00Potential for Telework:NoClearance Level Required:SecretTravel:Yes, 10% of the timeScheduled Weekly Hours:40Shift:DayRequisition Category:ProfessionalJob Family:Software EngineeringPay Range: