
Research Scientist, Gate Measurement, Quantum AI
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Job overview
The Research Scientist will work on Google Quantum AI’s Gates team, identifying noise processes through error benchmarking and using results to inform gate design and architecture parameters. The role includes implementing and validating error-metrology circuits, conducting architecture analysis and simulations, and defining hardware requirements for new gate designs. The scientist will collaborate with research scientists, hardware engineers, software engineers, and the theory team.
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Research Scientist, Gate Measurement, Quantum AI
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Minimum qualifications:
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PhD in Physics, Applied Physics, or Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
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Experience collecting and analyzing data in an experimental setting.
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Experience with programming and statistical analysis of datasets.
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Experience with techniques to characterize and calibrate hardware performance.
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience in analysis and modeling of multi-qubit quantum platforms.
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Experience collecting and analyzing data in an experimental setting.
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Experience with techniques to characterize and calibrate hardware performance.
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Proficiency with programming and statistical analysis of large datasets.
About the job
The Gates team is executing a multipronged research program to reach fidelities required for long-lived logical qubits. As a Gates Research Scientist, you will work on identifying noise processes through precise error benchmarking and use these results to identify new gate design and architecture parameters. You will implement improved error-metrology circuits and cross-validate them with physical models from the theory team. You will also be responsible for conducting detailed architecture analysis and simulations, and defining hardware requirements of new gate designs for forward-looking architectures.
As a Research Scientist, you will collaborate with other research scientists, hardware engineers, and software engineers to make high-performance quantum computing a reality.
The full potential of quantum computing will be unlocked with a large-scale computer capable of complex, error-corrected computations. Google Quantum AI's mission is to build this computer and unlock solutions to classically intractable problems. Our roadmap is focused on advancing the capabilities of quantum computing and enabling meaningful applications.
Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Learn more aboutbenefits at Google (https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/benefits/) .
Responsibilities
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Characterize and identify limiting error mechanisms in quantum logic gates.
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Collaborate with theory team to build and verify physics models for noise and error processes in quantum logic gates.
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Perform detailed architecture modeling, analyze design parameters and build hardware system specifications for forward-look architectures.
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Develop software infrastructure and tools for wider team use.
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,119 open Research Scientist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$147–210K/yr
- California median$183–276K/yr500 salary ranges
- US median$147–217K/yr1,401 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $179K, is 21% below the California median midpoint ($226K) — in the lowest quarter of Research Scientist salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 726 open Research Scientist jobs in California and 2,119 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Research Scientist postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 6 years (1,098 postings).
- Education
- 1,097 of the 2,119 open Research Scientist jobs (52%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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