The Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science (CS) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) invite applications for postdoctoral appointments in the theory of quantum computation and quantum information science. The term of appointment is two years with the possibility to extend.

Successful candidates will engage in cutting-edge research in various areas of the quantum sciences. The position is theory-focused but can also collaborate with experiments. Research topics may include, but are not limited to:
Quantum algorithms and complexity theory
Quantum architectures, compilation, and scalable quantum systems
Quantum error correction
Quantum machine learning, AI for quantum many-body physics and quantum information science
Quantum communication, networking, and cryptography
Characterization and simulation of quantum systems
Application of quantum information to physics, chemistry, and materials science

Additional Information:
UCLA is home to several institutes and centers that support research in quantum science. This includes the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (CQSE), established in 2018 to coordinate research and teaching activities. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) provides advanced nanotechnology infrastructure and expertise for research in quantum materials and quantum optics. The Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC) is partly centered at UCLA and addresses fundamental challenges to developing quantum computers. The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA, one of the six NSF math institutes, has also sponsored programs in quantum computing research.

Furthermore, UCLA has recently invested $500M in a new 700,000-square-foot UCLA Research Park, which will partly house a new Quantum Innovation Hub. The new hub will bring together faculty members and researchers from UCLA and other institutions, government and industry partners, leading startups, and students in a collective, multidisciplinary effort to advance the state of quantum science and technology. Candidates will have opportunities to collaborate with experimentalists, leveraging access to the full span of leading-edge entanglement, qubits, metrology and quantum testbeds at UCLA. This includes trapped ions, superconducting qubits, silicon spin qubits, solid-state quantum memories, high-dimensional noise-resilient quantum networks, multi-node entanglement distribution, fundamental and distributed quantum sensing at the thermodynamic and quantum noise limits, and precision measurements at UCLA.