Researcher Computational Scientist

1 week ago


Sherbrooke, Canada 1QBit Full time

**Your Role**

**What You'll Do**
- Work alongside academic, industry, and government partners to codesign algorithms and their hardware implementations in order to solve challenging computational optimization problems
- Design problem-specific algorithms and heuristics aiming to solve industrial problems, benchmark it on simulated and custom hardware, and build and analyze datasets
- Develop and expand high performance computing infrastructure to run computational experiments and simulations
- Take part in generating and presenting reports, drafting patents, authoring publications, and attending conferences

**What You'll Bring**
- Master's or PhD in physics, operations research, computer science, or electrical engineering (or equivalent experience)
- Experience in solving complex computational problems using advanced operations research / computer science techniques, including decomposition algorithms, dynamic programming, heuristics, etc.
- Experience in modeling, benchmarking and optimizing real-world industry problems
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, Rust, C/C++)
- Ability to communicate and collaborate well with team members with diverse backgrounds
- Research independence: the ability to take responsibility and initiative to conduct your research working towards the team's common goal

**Nice to Have**
- A strong research track record demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications and top-tier conference presentations
- A passion for quantum computing
- Familiarity with:

- Non-convex optimization techniques, including local search, Monte Carlo methods, etc.
- Metaheuristics and implementation, including simulated annealing, parallel tempering, genetic algorithms, etc.
- Statistical methods for analysis of experimental datasets
- Experience with high performance computing

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