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Solid-State Physicist / Engineer and Physical Sciences Researcher - Experienced to Expert Level (MD)
National Security Agency/Central Security Service · Posted 17 days ago
About the Role
As a Technical Intelligence & Science Services professional, you will use your skills to create the systems and tools that will be used to enhance the operation of intelligence. You will advise, administer and perform scientific projects, such as planning, designing, and constructing specialized equipment, and ensuring adherence to sound engineering and scientific standards and principles. The NSA offers multiple areas of focus for facilities engineers, including computer, and architectural.
What You'll Do
- →NSA is home to one of the largest and most established in-house research organizations within the U.S.
- →Intelligence Community (IC), employing scientists with world-class skills in fields such as mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity.
- →We collaborate with leading industries, universities, and national laboratories to advance core competencies, leverage work in overlapping disciplines, and solve some of the most challenging national security problems thought to be intractable by adversaries and commercial industry.
- →NSA's Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) attracts top technical talent who not only solve the nation's urgent intelligence problems, but also invent what hasn't been invented and concentrate on what will be needed five, ten, fifteen years down the road.
- →Through its partnership with the University of Maryland (UMD), LPS offers a unique environment where university, industry, and federal government scientists collaborate on research in advanced communication, sensing, and computer technologies.
- →To learn more about LPS, visit: https://www.lps.umd.edu LPS is currently seeking an experienced Quantum Computing Technical Program Manager/Solid-State Physicist responsible for setting research goals and direct research focused on conducting experimental or theoretical studies to further understand the fundamental limitations of qubit devices and platforms.
- →Specific focus of this job is for applicants with an extensive history working with either superconducting qubits or solid-state spin qubits (with a preference for spin-based gate defined quantum dots), with applicability to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
- →Government investments - Advance U.S. leadership in Quantum Information Science (QIS) for the benefit of the entire nation Experience in the following areas related to solid-state qubits are desired: - Quantum Hardware Development, Operation, and Overcoming Challenges.
Requirements
- ✓Degree must be in either (1) Engineering, (2) Physics or Astronomy from an accredited college, or (3) a relevant professional technical field (for example, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, geology).
Personality Fit
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