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Keep Walking – No Quantum Computing Jobs on Offer

D-Wave, Quantum Computing,

UPDATE: Ever so often I get a search engine click on this post, presumably from QIS job seekers. So despite the dreary title I now can give you a link to this job portal.

When promoting my last blog post in the LinkedIn “Quantum Computing and Quantum Information” group a strange thing happened.  Rather than staying in the main discussions section of that group my item was moved to the jobs section. So let’s be clear about this: I don’t have jobs to offer.

My last entry at this LinkedIn group is now the only one amidst a see of white fertile untouched HTML background in the jobs section.  Quite a contrast to the High Performance Computing LinkedIn groups that have dozens of jobs posted.

This made me ponder the Quantum Information Science (QIS) job market.  While I expect in the not so distant future there will be plenty of high qualified jobs to be had, we are certainly living in a very different reality as of now.  There is a reason that the byline to this blog is “Observations on the nascent quantum computing industry”.

With the exception of D-Wave the few other commercial players (i.e. the IBMs of the world) are still in basic research mode. Outside these companies, and a very small Quantum Key Distribution sector, there are essentially no QIS jobs in the private sector. It seems to me the job market still looks very much the same as described by Robert Tucci 1 ½ years ago.

Don’t peruse this blog because you are looking for a job in this area. But by all means please come here, and check back regularly, if you are intrinsically interested in Quantum Computing.

Update: Todd Brun was so kind to point out his QIS job site as a worthwhile destination for the wary job seeker who surfed wandered over here looking for QC related work.

Quantum Computing Micro Poll

Quantum Computing,

Although the data basis is extremely small I think the results from this poll may still be instructive because I only advertised it within the LinkedIn Quantum Information Science Group.  I feel reasonably confident that the two dozen individuals of the roughly 1000 members of this group who bothered to vote are pretty well-informed on the subject matter.  The results indicate that the race is still wide open when asked what technology will first allow for more than a 100 quantum gates:

Click on the image to go to the live poll

Another little fun fact (although not statistically significant) is to compare the average age of the voter demographics:  The classic way of quantum realization (trapped ions) also has the highest average voter age at 37.5 years, while the youngest average age is recorded for the photonic approach at 29 years.

Unfortunately LinkedIn polls only allow for five choices. So I had to pick what I think are the front-runners.  Would love to learn what QC realizations the three votes for “something else” are referring to.