I'm a physicist-adjacent mathematician, a working topological graph theorist at DWave. I'm an architect (more like a quantum architect, elbereth) for the hardware team and also a developer / researcher in algorithms.
On the hardware side, I enumerate and evaluate qubit topologies, and solve combinatorial puzzles of packing of qubits, couplers, couplers and their control structures, for my team to implement said topologies. Our processors are a fun mix digital and analog, and in development, that's "digital until things get too analog"
On the software side, I research, write and maintain embedding algorithms which are used to fit problems onto the chip, and I also work in hybrid quantum / classical optimization and sampling algorithms.
This kind of work seems very pleasant on the mathematical side.
May I ask in what company do you work? Also, what kind of study did you go through?
I'm almost at the end of my bachelor in mathematics, and I want to get close to physics and quantum computing. Your experience seems relevant!
On the hardware side, I enumerate and evaluate qubit topologies, and solve combinatorial puzzles of packing of qubits, couplers, couplers and their control structures, for my team to implement said topologies. Our processors are a fun mix digital and analog, and in development, that's "digital until things get too analog"
On the software side, I research, write and maintain embedding algorithms which are used to fit problems onto the chip, and I also work in hybrid quantum / classical optimization and sampling algorithms.