Quantum experts
Drive the science that powers our systems.
You know why T₁ and T₂ matter.
You’ve spent years chasing the best coherence times and gate fidelities. Now work where those numbers are systematically pushed further — measured daily on 50-qubit and larger processors at millikelvin temperatures.
Best T₁ > 960 μs. Best T₂ > 1.1 ms. Two-qubit gate fidelity: >99.9%. Your job: push further.
Fast, ambitious, and grounded
We asked our quantum expert team to describe IQM's culture. Here's what they said:
"We move fast and sometimes burn from the inside, but that's part of the process of creating something new and beautiful."
"We already build and deliver quantum processors that are beyond the capabilities of the best academic labs in the EU and USA. And we are only pushing further — which makes it both a challenging and highly rewarding experience."
"We're a small, R&D-heavy team where collaboration is constant. Open, curiosity-driven, with no internal competition — just appreciation for work that advances quantum computing."
Challenges you'll work on
Readout & Reset for QEC
Mid-circuit measurement in hundreds of nanoseconds. Assignment errors below 1% at scale. Purcell leakage under control. Fast reset protocols that don't wreck your next gate.
IQM Constellation & Tile Codes
Constellation topology enabling tile codes natively on hardware.
Tunable Couplers & ZZ Suppression
Low error, low leakage, high speed. Minimize residual ZZ at scale. New coupling schemes for 150+ qubit processors.
Noise Spectroscopy & TLS Mitigation
Characterize 1/f flux noise and charge noise origins. Map TLS defects across the chip, and collaborate closely with our in-house fab to fix what dynamical decoupling cannot.
Optimal Control at Scale
Optimal pulse shaping on real hardware — fighting pulse distortions and finite bandwidth. Real-time optimization in the calibration stack, not idealized Hamiltonians.
Crossing the Fault-Tolerant Threshold
From 10⁻³ to 10⁻⁹. Multiple 150-qubit systems to be shipped in less than a year. No one has cracked this yet. You'd be working on it.
Your papers shape the quantum ecosystem.
Your research doesn’t stay in the lab: it becomes the shared foundation the field builds on.
Above 99.9% Fidelity Single-Qubit Gates, Two-Qubit Gates, and Readout in a Single Superconducting Quantum Device
Simultaneous >99.9% fidelity across single-qubit gates, two-qubit gates, and readout on a single device — a milestone for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Full characterisation of IQM’s superconducting processor.
Mitigating Crosstalk Errors for Simultaneous Single-Qubit Gates on a Superconducting Quantum Processor
Quantum Error Detection in a Qubit-Resonator Star Architecture (IQM Constellation)
Pruning qLDPC Codes: Towards Bivariate Bicycle Codes with Open Boundary Conditions
Adapts bivariate bicycle codes for realistic hardware constraints with open boundaries — a key step toward the 10x physical qubit reduction IQM is targeting over surface code.
Why quantum PhDs choose IQM
Friendly, international team spirit. Colleagues are nice, supportive, and smart.
Surrounded by experts
Research meets product
Publish, explore, and test your own ideas
Resources that match ambition
Cleanrooms, dilution fridges, in-house fab. More stable than startups, faster than big tech. IQM feels solid and enduring.
Trust-based culture
Nordic work culture: flat structure, flexible hours. Hybrid/remote options. Trusted with responsibility, not micromanaged. Family time respected.
Pioneering the future of computing
Work hands-on with the technology that defines our era. Build quantum computers, push the field forward, and contribute to the open quantum ecosystem.
The stack you'll work with
IQM’s full-stack quantum computers integrate every layer — from qubit design to software execution.
Transmons
Tunable Couplers
IQM Constellation
IQM Quantum Control System
Dilution Refrigerators
Pulse-Level Access
IQM Calibration Stack
Trans-Graph Calibration
KLayout
HFSS
COMSOL
QuTiP
NumPy
JAX
Qiskit
Cirq
Git / GitLab
lus in-house control software, automated calibration frameworks, and quantum simulation clusters. If you need a tool that doesn’t exist yet, you’ll build it.
From the team
Scaling quantum takes more than physics.
In academia, you play every instrument yourself. At IQM, you're part of a symphony, and your strengths get multiplied by the collective expertise of the team.
— Zhen Wu
QPU Packaging & Integration
The unknown is where the excitement lives. We don't even know yet what all problems quantum computers will solve."
— Sourav Majumder
Senior Quantum Error Correction Engineer
People are serious about their work, but supportive. If you have something to say, you can say it."
— Usasi Chowdhury
QPU Development Engineer
