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AI for Quantum Operations Lead

Boston, MA, USA

Role Summary

The AI for Quantum Operations Lead owns the roadmap and execution strategy for AI-assisted calibration, diagnostics, prediction, and recovery across quantum systems, ensuring that AI improves machine uptime, calibration speed, and operator decision-making while deterministic control and safety software remain authoritative.

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the AI operations roadmap across calibration optimization, atom image/readout analysis, drift prediction, root-cause diagnosis, and recovery recommendation.
  • Partner with quantum systems, controls, software, hardware, and ML teams to identify high-value workflows where AI can safely propose, rank, predict, or optimize.
  • Establish the bounded-AI operating model: AI provides recommendations or constrained optimizations, while deterministic control software enforces timing, hardware limits, validation, rollback, and safety logic.
  • Prioritize AI pilots for Quokka, Calibration Manager, telemetry systems, readout pipelines, and QPU operations workflows.
  • Own requirements for dataset traceability, model validation, observability, offline replay, deployment gates, and operator-facing explainability.
  • Translate machine-performance pain points into measurable AI/ML objectives such as reduced calibration time, fewer failed jobs, faster recovery, improved readout quality, and better drift detection.
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution, staffing needs, milestones, risk reviews, and stakeholder communication.

 

Required Background

  • Strong technical leadership experience in AI/ML, controls, robotics, scientific instrumentation, or complex hardware operations.
  • Experience bringing ML models into production environments where reliability, safety, traceability, and human/operator trust matter.
  • Ability to work across software, hardware, physics, and operations teams.
  • Strong systems thinking; understands where AI should help, where deterministic software must remain in charge, and how to design the boundary between them.

 

Preferred Background

  • Experience with Bayesian optimization, active learning, time-series forecasting, computer vision, anomaly detection, or root-cause analysis.
  • Familiarity with calibration workflows, lab automation, telemetry systems, or hardware-in-the-loop validation.
  • Exposure to quantum computing, neutral atoms, optical systems, embedded control, or real-time systems.

 

Success Measures

  • Clear AI operations roadmap with owners, milestones, and safety gates.
  • First bounded AI pilots deployed into calibration or readout workflows.
  • Measurable reduction in calibration effort, diagnosis time, drift-related failures, or recovery time.
  • Strong governance around model validation, data provenance, deployment approval, and operator trust.

 

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