Research Associate, Quantum Algorithms

Your Challenge
Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada's largest research and technology organization.

We are looking for an early-career Research Associate to support our Digital Technologies research centre (DT). The Research Associate would be someone who shares our core values of Integrity, Excellence, Respect and Creativity.

Help bring research to life and drive your career forward with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), Canada's largest research and technology organization. Working with the NRC is an exciting opportunity to pursue a research career both independently and with a dynamic research team.

We are looking for a Research Associate to join NRC’s Digital Technologies Research Centre (NRC-DT). The Digital Technologies Research Centre collects multiple research teams who focus on machine learning, advanced analytics, computer vision, bioinformatics, cyber security, natural language processing, quantum computing and other branches of digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

The primary responsibility of the researcher in this position is to support the goals of NRC and the activities of the Digital Technologies Research Centre in conducting research of international calibre in applied quantum computing, including quantum algorithms and software, quantum error correction, theoretical models of quantum computing and other related areas. The researcher will work in a team environment with other researchers and technical experts in world-class facilities. The researcher will participate in the development and execution of an original research agenda in collaboration with NRC colleagues and with academic and commercial partners across Canada. The researcher will be called upon to contribute to collaborative research projects in support of NRC’s Applied Quantum Computing challenge program.

Education
As part of the RA Program you must have received your PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science or Physics within the last five years or you expect to receive the degree within the next six months.