Machine Learning Engineer, Automated Calibration Services

Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for its Automated Calibration Services team. The role builds and deploys models that predict qubit drift, optimize calibration decisions, and measure the impact of model-driven calibrations on device performance.

Responsibilities:

• Build models that predict qubit drift and device health, and turn those predictions into decisions about which routine runs and when
• Replace exhaustive parameter sweeps with sequential optimisation, using Bayesian optimisation, active learning or comparable methods, to reach the same tuning outcome in less device time
• Apply computer vision and signal analysis to device measurement data where those methods outperform simpler alternatives
• Build the feature and telemetry pipelines out of the calibration store that these models depend on
• Quantify uncertainty, so the orchestration can separate a high-confidence recommendation from a low-confidence one and act accordingly
• Validate models against held-out device data, including the case where the device has changed since training
• Deploy models into the calibration loop with monitoring, fallback paths and a kill switch
• Distinguish real drift and defects from measurement noise, and set the thresholds that trigger action
• Work with physicists to encode what they already know as priors and constraints rather than making the model learn it twice
• Instrument the loop so the effect of a model-driven calibration on qubit performance is measurable after the fact
• Feed device characterisation and noise models back to Compiler Services and Control & Error Correction
• Document models, assumptions and failure modes, so an automated decision can be explained to the owner of the affected device