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Staff Quantum Applications Scientist - Life Sciences

About IonQ: IonQ, Inc. [NYSE: IONQ] is the world’s leading quantum platform and merchant supplier - delivering integrated quantum solutions across computing, networking, sensing, and security. IonQ’s newest generation of quantum computers,

Company

IonQ

Location

Göteborg, Västra Götaland, Sweden

Status

Open

Posted

2026-03-06T22:05:18+00:00

IonQ is hiring a staff-level scientist for its Quantum Applications team, based in Gothenburg or Toronto, to design hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for life sciences problems such as drug discovery and therapeutics, aimed at commercial use. The work spans optimising workflows for trapped-ion hardware with compiler and cloud engineers, and presenting results to client teams. The posting asks for a doctorate or equivalent, three-plus years with computational and ML/AI tools in bioinformatics, and three-plus years developing quantum algorithms in Python using Qiskit, PennyLane or Cirq.