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Quantum Performance Engineer

IBM

Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

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Introduction

At IBM Quantum Software, we are looking for an experienced performance test engineer. The ideal candidate is results-driven and can distill test analysis input into a technical performance test strategy. This role is responsible for defining and designing the performance test methods and tools, with practical experience to choose and create a set of tools and frameworks that would be used in running tests. Additionally, this individual should also be able to gain a clear understanding of the IBM Quantum software stack and work closely with the reliability team to contribute to the overall health, reliability, and availability of this complex distributed software. The tech lead works closely with the software testers to enable them conduct tests, analyze the results, and report observations to the software team. The teach lead will also interact with the support team to understand the common patterns of failures and issues in the product and ensure the necessary strategy is defined to address such concerns.

Your role and responsibilities

You will be part of a team whose mission is to advance the performance of the state-of-the-art IBM quantum control systems. As a Performance Software Engineer in IBM Quantum, you will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary, global team of developers and researchers in the IBM Quantum Team to bring new capabilities to life. Your work will sit at the intersection of experimental quantum computing, compilers, and heterogenous computer architectures, and help develop the software stack for the next generation of quantum computers. If you are self-motivated, curious, and love to code, we have the right opportunity for you!

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

· Solid experience as a performance engineer in distributed environments.

· Deep familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.).

· Strong knowledge of networking, I/O, concurrency, and operating systems internals.

· Proficiency in profiling applications in multiple languages (e.g., Go, Rust, C/C++, Python).

· Experience with cloud-native infrastructure (Kubernetes, containers, distributed services).

Preferred technical and professional experience

· Contributions to benchmarking and performance analysis tools.

· Experience with heterogeneous environments (edge, bare metal + cloud).

· Knowledge of advanced protocols (QUIC, gRPC, RDMA).

· Awareness of energy efficiency and low-level system optimization.

· Familiarity with quantum circuits, circuit optimizers, and quantum algorithms.

· Experience with collaborative software development and agile methodologies (design documents, code reviews).

· Experience with containerization technologies - Kubernetes/Red Hat OpenShift (preferred) or similar.

· Familiarity with quantum circuits, circuit optimizers, and quantum algorithms.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Research is the organic growth engine of IBM and an innovation engine for our customers and partners. As part of this mission, IBM Research anticipates and examines 'What's Next in Computing' to ultimately create and integrate the technologies the world relies upon to solve big challenges and unlock new opportunities. We create and pioneer new markets for IBM, our partners and customers as exemplified in our ongoing quest to reach practical and large-scale quantum computing. Across IBM Research, we realize the power and potential to accelerate discovery with our partners and clients by combining the power of high performance computing, AI, and Quantum, all integrated through the hybrid cloud.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being
Financial programs such as 401(k), the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs
Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law
Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals
Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

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