Location

Research Associate

Location

Edinburgh

Salary

£41,064 to £48,822 per annum (Grade 7)

Opened on

2026-05-08

Closed on

2026-06-05

Full time – 35 hours per week

Fixed term contract - 24 Month (initial 2-year appointment, with eligibility for a 1-year extension eligible for a 1-year extension following a positive review by the project PI).

The opportunity:

The Quantum Software Lab (QSL; www.quantumsoftwarelab.com), based in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, invites applications for up to nine Postdoctoral Research Associate positions in areas including, but not limited to:

  • Quantum algorithms 
  • Quantum machine learning
  • Quantum simulation
  • High performance computing and quantum computation integration
  • Networks distributed quantum computing
  • Quantum programming and software
  • Verification and benchmarking
  • Quantum error correction and error mitigation
  • Fault-tolerant compilation and resource estimation