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    "description_html": "<div class=\"job_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">About Xanadu</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Xanadu&#8217;s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">At Xanadu, we are learners, innovators, researchers, collaborators and problem solvers. We are creating something that has never been built before. Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this, where if we are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world&#8217;s most challenging problems, and literally change the world. And that is something to be excited about!</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Your Role and Responsibilities</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Building a high-performance software stack that makes optimal use of quantum hardware resources is key to realizing early, game-changing applications of quantum computing. As part of the</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href=\"https://pennylane.ai/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span><span>PennyLane</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> Performance Team, you author high-performance libraries that enable ultra-low latency communication between FPGAs and GPUs, develop other high-performance extensions such as the </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href=\"https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane-lightning\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span><span>PennyLane-Lightning</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> simulator suite, and contribute to the performance monitoring and benchmarking tooling for the </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href=\"https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/pennylane\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span><span>PennyLane</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> &amp; </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href=\"https://github.com/PennyLaneAI/catalyst\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span><span>Catalyst</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> quantum software stack, ensuring PennyLane is the highest-performing framework for quantum computing.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">You will:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Develop primitives/libraries that enable ultra-low latency communication between devices in a distributed, heterogeneous system (CPU/GPU/FPGA)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Develop high-performance software components, adapting to new hardware platforms and programming paradigms.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Convert abstract descriptions of algorithms into efficient &amp; understandable software implementations.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Develop the framework for benchmarking the compilation and execution pipeline, tracking quantum resources through the stack, and profiling the quantum software.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Interpret and communicate complex concepts to the wider team.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Participate in software system specification, design, and quality assurance (e.g., requirements gathering, defining software architecture, documentation, verification &amp; validation, etc.)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Provide leadership in software best practices, including continuous-integration pipelines, unit testing, &amp; code review.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Basic Qualifications and Experience:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Demonstrated experience in low-level networking/systems programming (e.g. networking/low-latency communication (RDMA), concurrency and authoring of high-performance libraries, OS internals)</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Proficiency in high-performance Modern C++ (C++17/20 preferred) and Python.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Deep understanding of computer architecture (CPU, GPU, memory hierarchy) coupled with hands-on experience in optimizing code for runtime and memory efficiency using professional profiling tools (e.g. perf, scalene, valgrind).</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Proven ability to rapidly diagnose and resolve complex issues across compiled and interpreted environments using industry-standard debuggers.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Preferred Knowledge and Experience:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><ul><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">MSc, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Familiarity with code parallelization and accelerators: multithreading (e.g., OpenMP, C++ threads), multiprocessing (e.g., MPI), GPUs (e.g. CUDA, HIP/ROCm) or compiler offload directives.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience in designing and implementing scalable &amp; reproducible scientific workloads on HPC / supercomputer platforms or cloud hardware (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Expertise in quantum computing, as demonstrated by extensive coursework, thesis, or peer-reviewed publications.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li><li style=\"list-style-type:disc;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Experience with writing complex quantum workflows and optimizing the use of quantum resources.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:700;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Values</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for culture at Xanadu. Learn more about our values</span></span></span></span></span></span><a href=\"https://www.xanadu.ai/values\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span><span>here</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style=\"font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>This is for a new position. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and internal benchmarks. The base salary range is 120,000 - 160,000 CAD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.<p> </p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for culture at Xanadu. Learn more about our values <a href=\"https://www.xanadu.ai/values\">here</a>.</span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to building an inclusive, safe, and equitable culture and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. We are committed to meeting the needs of all individuals and support a barrier-free workplace. Should you require accommodations at any point during the recruitment process please contact Recruiting at <a href=\"/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5123343223243825383f36777267656a29303f3035247f3038\">recruiting&#64;xanadu.ai</a>. </span></span></p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the screening and assessment of applicants for this position. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.</span></span></p>",
    "description_text": "About Xanadu\n Xanadu’s mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere.\n At Xanadu, we are learners, innovators, researchers, collaborators and problem solvers. We are creating something that has never been built before. Few people in their life will be able to be a part of something like this, where if we are successful, the technologies we develop will solve some of the world’s most challenging problems, and literally change the world. And that is something to be excited about!\n Your Role and Responsibilities\n Building a high-performance software stack that makes optimal use of quantum hardware resources is key to realizing early, game-changing applications of quantum computing. As part of the PennyLane Performance Team, you author high-performance libraries that enable ultra-low latency communication between FPGAs and GPUs, develop other high-performance extensions such as the PennyLane-Lightning simulator suite, and contribute to the performance monitoring and benchmarking tooling for the PennyLane & Catalyst quantum software stack, ensuring PennyLane is the highest-performing framework for quantum computing.\n You will:\n Develop primitives/libraries that enable ultra-low latency communication between devices in a distributed, heterogeneous system (CPU/GPU/FPGA)\n Develop high-performance software components, adapting to new hardware platforms and programming paradigms.\n Convert abstract descriptions of algorithms into efficient & understandable software implementations.\n Develop the framework for benchmarking the compilation and execution pipeline, tracking quantum resources through the stack, and profiling the quantum software.\n Interpret and communicate complex concepts to the wider team.\n Participate in software system specification, design, and quality assurance (e.g., requirements gathering, defining software architecture, documentation, verification & validation, etc.)\n Provide leadership in software best practices, including continuous-integration pipelines, unit testing, & code review.\n Basic Qualifications and Experience:\n BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.\n Demonstrated experience in low-level networking/systems programming (e.g. networking/low-latency communication (RDMA), concurrency and authoring of high-performance libraries, OS internals)\n Proficiency in high-performance Modern C++ (C++17/20 preferred) and Python.\n Deep understanding of computer architecture (CPU, GPU, memory hierarchy) coupled with hands-on experience in optimizing code for runtime and memory efficiency using professional profiling tools (e.g. perf, scalene, valgrind).\n Proven ability to rapidly diagnose and resolve complex issues across compiled and interpreted environments using industry-standard debuggers.\n Preferred Knowledge and Experience:\n MSc, PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or a related field.\n Familiarity with code parallelization and accelerators: multithreading (e.g., OpenMP, C++ threads), multiprocessing (e.g., MPI), GPUs (e.g. CUDA, HIP/ROCm) or compiler offload directives.\n Experience in designing and implementing scalable & reproducible scientific workloads on HPC / supercomputer platforms or cloud hardware (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).\n Expertise in quantum computing, as demonstrated by extensive coursework, thesis, or peer-reviewed publications.\n Experience with writing complex quantum workflows and optimizing the use of quantum resources.\n Values\n Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for culture at Xanadu. Learn more about our values here .\nThis is for a new position. Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and internal benchmarks. The base salary range is 120,000 - 160,000 CAD. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.\n Our values are important. They are fundamental and lay the foundation for culture at Xanadu. Learn more about our values here .\n We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We are committed to building an inclusive, safe, and equitable culture and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. We are committed to meeting the needs of all individuals and support a barrier-free workplace. Should you require accommodations at any point during the recruitment process please contact Recruiting at [email protected] .\n Please be advised that we may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in the screening and assessment of applicants for this position. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.",
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