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    "description_html": "<div class=\"job_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><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><br><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><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></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><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.&#160; What we are doing is extremely hard, the classic moon shot. 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></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;background-color:#ffffff;padding:4pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><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></span><br><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">In this role, you will lead the vision and development of the suite of software simulation tools for prototyping, optimizing, and benchmarking Xanadu&#8217;s logical architecture. Improvements to the scalability and performance of the architecture can enter anywhere in the stack, requiring a broad understanding of Xanadu&#8217;s architecture and its iterations, with a focus on the logical (quantum error-correction) layers.&#160;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">The suite of tools, which augments the existing fault-tolerant software stack, facilitates the design of the architecture under flexible choices of logical circuits, computational units, logical layouts, protocols, codes, decoders, and MBQC channels. It allows for simulating the architecture in the demanding regimes of large system sizes and low error rates under relevant sources of noise.&#160;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.656;text-align:justify;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><span style=\"font-style:normal;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:none;\">The role will require leveraging existing tooling and kicking off new projects; managing project coordinators, research software developers, and software engineers; and interfacing with researchers across Quantum Architecture and other teams in Xanadu.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p 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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. 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