Internship Opportunities

We use a number of resources, such as the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) website and the Quantum Computing Report, to provide you here with a curated list of current and relevant internship positions at local or global companies/institutions. The QED-C, established as part of the National Quantum Initiative Act, lists hundreds of open industry positions in quantum software and hardware, many at the Bachelor’s and Master's level.

Other resources can be found by visiting the SJSU Career Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy's Life After College and LinkedIn pages. Feel free to contact Dr. Ehsan Khatami <ehsan.khatami@sjsu.edu> with information about other resources or opportunities that can be included in this page.

Unless specified otherwise, the following opportunities typically have an open application period and open start dates and ask that you specify your availability during some period of time. We try our best to update the list weekly. The symbol ♣ means new since the last update.

Local

• ♣ Company: UCLA (Los Angeles)
  Instructional Laboratory Manager (This is a full-time position)
  Topics: Support for the quantum technology instructional laboratories, maintain and continually improve existing laboratory curriculum and associated equipment for the Master of Quantum Science and Technology program at UCLA, etc.
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
•  ♣ Company: PsiQuantum (Palo Alto, CA)
  Intern, Quantum Applications
  Topics: 'Work with world experts in quantum algorithms, compilation and fault tolerance to contribute to the development of useful applications for large-scale, fault tolerant quantum computers'
  In-Person: Yes(?)
  
  
• ♣ Company: Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA)
  Intern - Quantum Information Science (summer)
  Topics: High-performance software implementations of algorithms from randomized numerical linear algebra (RandNLA)
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: SandboxAQ (Bay Area)
  Residency Programs Several positions (they are technically called PhD residencies, however, they consider Masters level too)
  3-12 months; the role may be fulfilled full time, part time, or a combination depending on the needs of the resident and the team.
  Topics: Quantum security, quantum sensing, quantum simulation and optimization, AI, science learning
  In-Person: Residents and their SandboxAQ team can mutually arrange for either remote or on-site residencies at several locations globally. Residents focused on photonics hardware may be based at our lab near Stanford University in the Bay Area.
  
  
• Company: Google (Mountain View & San Francisco CA, and other places)
  Student Researcher
  Topics: Open-ended and exploratory (Googly Quantum stuff)
  In-Person: Yes
  Apply by June 7, 2024
  
  

• Company: NTT Research (Sunnyvale, CA)
  Internship
  Topics: Diverse, ranging from AI to chips to quantum communication
  In-Person: Yes(?)

Elsewhere in the country

• ♣ Company: Microsoft (Santa Barbara, CA)
  Research Intern - Quantum Information and Computation
  Topics: Quantum algorithms, digital quantum simulation, fault-tolerant codes and their decoding algorithms, quantum circuit synthesis and optimization, quantum computational complexity, etc.
  In-person: Yes
  
  
• ♣ Company: QuEra (Boston, MA)
  Summer Internship - Quantum Systems
  Topics: Holography and Laser Beam Optimization, Algorithm Development, Experimental Support and Data Analysis
  In-person: Yes
  
  
• Company: HRL Laboratories (Malibu, CA)
  Quantum Technology Intern
  Topics: Ranges from quantum simulations to experimental work
  In-person: Yes
  U.S. citizenship required.
  
  
• Institute: Air Force Research Laboratory (Dayton, OH)
  Quantum Dynamics of Mitochondria Internship
  You must be a U.S. Citizen.
  Topics: Understanding of the quantum dynamics of electron transfer in mitochondria and their regulation by photoactivated nanomaterials
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: Triton Systems (Chelmsford, MA)
  You must be US Citizens or Permanent Resident.
  University Internships
  Topics: General quantum research (appears to be experimental)
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: D-Wave (Bellevue, WA)
  Internships
  Topics: Quantum computing, commercialization 
  In-Person: ?

Global

• ♣ Company: HAIQU (Waterloo, Canada)
  Paid Internship: Quantum Algorithm Design
  Topics: Research, design, and prototype quantum algorithms for specific applications
  This company has other internship opportunities in noise mitigation and machine learning.
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• ♣ Company: IBM (Johannesburg, South Africa)
  Research Science Intern (Quantum)
  Topics: Working with Qiskit and 1developing a community of individuals driven to contribute to Quantum computing research and education', etc.
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• ♣ Company: Quandela (Massy, France)
  Quantum Applications Engineer - Internship
  Topics: Designing and enhancing cutting edge algorithms and working with industry customers
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: NanoQT (Tokyo, Japan)
  Research Internship
  Topics: Quantum optics, ultracold atoms, quantum networks
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: Phasecraft (London and Bristol)
  2024 Quantum Algorithms Internship Programme
  Topics: Quantum algorithsm, appears to be theoretical
  In-Person: Yes
  The closing date is 12th February 2024.
  
  
• Company: TNO (Quantum Technology department, The Hague, Netherlands)
  Master Thesis Intern at TNO Applied Crypto and Quantum Algorithms
  Topics: Quantum networks and security
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: Orange Quantum Systems (Delft, Netherlands)
  Quantum Engineer
  Have to be EU Citizen or be able to work legally in Netherlends.
  Topics: Product development; interface between experimental physics and software engineering
  In-Person: Yes
  
  
• Company: BEIT (Krakow, Poland)
  Internship
  Scroll down to Career and click on Intern
  Application process is unclear.
  Topics: Quantum algorithm development(?)
  In-Person: ?