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    "description_html": "<div class=\"job_description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;\"><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><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;\">:&#160;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style=\"line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;\"><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:#2b333a;\"><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:1.38;text-align:justify;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:#2b333a;\"><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. 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