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Designing codes that exploit this noise bias is one of the most direct levers to shrink the hardware cost of a useful quantum computer, and it is exactly what this PhD is about.\nThe PhD project “Code construction & logic for biased-noise qubits,” one of 15 doctoral projects of QuBriC, the first European MSCA Doctoral Network entirely dedicated to quantum error correction (call HORIZON-MSCA-2025-DN-01-01), bridging classical coding theory and quantum hardware.\nHosted in Alice & Bob’s Error Correction team and supervised by Dr Christophe Vuillot, you will develop high-rate, biased-noise-adapted QEC codes and logical-gate protocols using lifted-product and asymmetric-distance constructions, co-design logical operations, and validate your designs through hardware-in-the-loop simulations and small-scale cat-qubit experiments.\nYour results feed directly into Alice & Bob’s roadmap toward a fault-tolerant quantum computer and into the network’s shared QEC-hardware map, including an open online library of codes and logical protocols for biased-noise qubits. Your doctoral degree will be awarded by Sorbonne Université and you will be co-supervised by Mike Vasmer (Inria Paris).\nLocation & life at Alice & Bob:\nYou’ll be based in Paris with English as your working language. We offer a hybrid work arrangement, with flexible remote up to 40% a month, and we make space for the rituals that keep us grounded, from Café Cohez on Mondays to Snacky Day on Wednesdays.\nAs part of the QuBriC training programme, depending on the advancement of the project, you may have 3 secondments:\nInria (France): fault-tolerant gate protocols and validation under realistic biased noise\nTU Delft (Netherlands): experimental benchmarking and integration of biased-noise gate demonstrations\nUniversity of Navarra (Spain): modelling and simulation of bias-adapted code performance\nResponsibilities:\nAt Alice & Bob you will:\nDevelop and benchmark high-rate, biased-noise-adapted QEC codes and corresponding logical-gate protocols using lifted-product and asymmetric-distance constructions\nCo-design logical operations (homomorphic CNOT, transversal Clifford, algorithmic subroutines), incorporating noise bias, connectivity, and measurement constraints\nValidate designs via hardware-in-the-loop simulations and small-scale cat-qubit experiments, quantifying space-time efficiency and logical error suppression\nBenchmark biased-noise performance and decoder compatibility, providing feedback to the network’s architecture and decoder work packages\nContribute to an open online library of high-rate codes and logical protocols for biased-noise qubits, including analysis of resource overhead, and to open datasets/tools for reproducible biased-noise co-design\nPublish your results in leading journals and present them at international conferences\nFollow the QuBriC doctoral training programme (QEC foundations, coding theory, architectures, decoders, hardware integration), Sorbonne Université doctoral training courses, plus Alice & Bob’s internal courses on biased noise, QEC, and cat qubit hardware\nCarry out the secondments and contribute to the network’s outreach and open-science activities\nRequirements:\nMSc degree in Quantum Engineering or Physics completed by the recruitment date\nDemonstrated background in quantum information or quantum computing (coursework, thesis, or research projects visible on your CV)\nProficiency in scientific programming with Python\nProficiency in English (written and oral)\nMSCA eligibility - 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