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Research Assistant in Quantum Circuits

Details


1112389


UCL


15/06/2026


2 Months


Part-time; 21.9 hours per week


Not Applicable

Pay


£21.98


£4.11

Description

Role

Unitemps are recruiting for a Research Assistant in Quantum Circuits. This role is for a June 15th start date and has a projected end date of August 15th 2026. This is a part-time role at 21.9 hours per week. Payment is set at £21.98 per hour + £4.11 holiday pay. This role will be hybrid working with 3 days from campus and any other days from home.

Duties and responsibilities

The Research Assistant will help the Research Chair in a project funded by Royal Academy of Engineering. The project is about the use of structure-aware machine learning and compositional reasoning in vision language models. The theoretical underpinning of the underlying methodologies is a framework that brings logic and statistics together via the use of tensors. Learning these tensors is more efficient using quantum machine learning and thus at this stage of the project the focus is on training and test on quantum computers. 
 
The RA will be based in UCL CS's Quantum Learning Labs. The lab has its own weekly seminar and reading group, as well as a joint seminar with UCL CS's Quantum Information group. There is also a seminar at the PPLV group members can attend. The lab often collaborates with other members of UCL's Quantum Institute and members of Physics and Chemistry departments, as well as the QBIOMED Hub. 
 
We have on going collaborations with industry, e.g. with companies such as Quantinuum, AWS, Orca and others and have won access to real quantum devices via NQCC’s Sparq Access program. We work with quantum researchers in other universities, most notably Edinburgh's Quantum Software Lab and Sorbonne's Lip6 lab, as well as with Royal Holloway, Oxford and Cambridge.

Skills and experience

Essential Criteria:

  • Good degree in engineering fieldExperience working in a research environment.
  • Experience of quantum machine learning.Knowledge of vision language models.
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to work to deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy and an eye for detail.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and as part of a team in a research community.
  • Ability to work unsupervisedDelivering work to agreed standards.
  • Innovating and sharing with new ways to work efficiently.
  • Working methodically, prioritising and managing tasks.

Desirable Criteria:

  • Experience of running circuits on quantum computers.
  • Publication record in relevant conferences and journals.

Location
UCL; 3 days per week at the office

Additional information

This job will close for applications at 11.59pm on Thursday May 26th. Interviews will be held shortly after.

*Please note to be eligible to work within this role, you must have the right to work in the UK, be physically based in the UK and be able to travel to our London based office for a RTW check (if required).

*If you have a full-time contract of employment with UCL, you are not able to work through UCL Unitemps at the same time.

Unitemps reserves the right to close this advert for applications prior to the date specified above, if a high volume of suitable applications are received so pleased don't delay applying.

Unitemps payroll is monthly, one month in arrears, please see the payroll dates here.

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