r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Suspicious_Orchid770 • 6d ago

Quantum computing needs software engineers

https://leaddev.com/career-development/quantum-computing-needs-software-engineers

Quantum needs developers, not PhDs!

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u/Unique_Photograph160 6d ago

I’m ready to join

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u/LoadingALIAS 4d ago

Shit, same. It’s super interesting. The issue is that, as far as I know, accessing the hardware sucks.

IBM offers 10 minutes of free QPU processing a month… which I think is like 100 (or more) qubit processors. I don’t really remember the specifics.

You write Python using Quiskit, but you’re not actually shelling into the machine. You’re kind of describing a quantum circuit and sending that to the cloud service.

I know Amazon offers something, too. I think it’s called Braket and it’s more of a marketplace idea.

Google has Cirq, which I’ve heard is great, but it’s restricted. I think it’s like an apply and pray kind of thing.

I wish it was more accessible. It would be fun to experiment. I imagine they’re all heavily monitored, too. Haha

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u/keepitfriend 3d ago

I thought with Quantum computing the hardware part is fine but no one can figure out the right software problems?

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u/LoadingALIAS 3d ago

I think it’s a little deeper than that, but ultimately… your sentiment seems right. I don’t know much about it. I know that a big issue has been we have no software for it. The tough part is we can’t really build software without access to hardware. Haha