Quantum Technologies Intern
The Leidos Innovation Center (LInC) Quantum Incubator has an opening for a Quantum Technologies Intern with a background quantum technologies / quantum information science. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help grow the Leidos quantum technologies portfolio of contract and internal R&D projects, benchmarking, and operational prototypes. In this position, the intern will participate in the full life cycle of research & development of optical systems for the study of quantum-enabled remote sensing and communications. Ideal candidates should be interested in a career devoted to applied research and development with strong experimental, hardware skills and should be interested in maturing technologies from concept to prototype.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, simulate, build, characterize, and analyze cutting edge devices in quantum communication, sensing, and precision positioning, navigation, and timing
- Design software to create high-fidelity simulation of quantum communications, photonics, or sensing experiments.
- Perform laboratory and field tests to prove and validate quantum experimental theories as viable products in applicable domains, and benchmark results within the field
- Collaborate with other team members, engineers, and scientists across the company and different fields to leverage quantum technologies to achieve organizational goals
Basic Qualifications
- Pursuing Bachelor’s degree or graduate degree in physics, applied physics, engineering, or related fields
- Research experience and experimental background in one or more of the following areas: quantum optics, chip integrated photonics, quantum entanglement, photonics, quantum communications, quantum information science
- Familiarity with photonic integrated circuits, quantum sensing, and/or quantum communications
- Familiarity with optics lab design, set up, and operation and photonic chip characterization
- Experience developing innovative solutions based upon the application of relevant research results from a wide variety of sources
- Experience building and benchmarking hardware and software prototypes, to include metrics development, and theoretical/analytical/computational skills
- Strong technical writing skills with experience in writing advanced technical proposals.
- US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance
- Strong desire to learn new technologies and flexibility to change from one project to another quickly
- Experience with standard programming languages for analytics or scientific applications, such as Python, Matlab, and Labview
- Ability to effectively communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Highly motivated to publish in peer-reviewed journals and present research at conferences
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in management and execution of foundry and cleanroom processes, understanding of process flow, and simulations to inform foundry processes
- Extensive experience researching in any of quantum sources, sensing, low photon detection correlation, and quantum information technology
- Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing
- Interest and experience in quantum communications, quantum networks, quantum sensing
- Demonstrated experience in proposing and winning independent research funding
- Electronics and computer automation of laboratory experiments
- Experience with big data applications, data science, or data analytics methods and tools
- DoD Top Secret Clearance