{"id":226877,"url":"https://alion.io/job/planqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry","title":"Team Lead – Gate-Based Quantum Chemistry","company":{"id":9437,"name":"planqc","domain":"planqc.eu","url":"https://alion.io/company/planqc","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Personio","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":85,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0.167,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":109,"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Garching bei München, Germany"],"countries":["DE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":64000,"max_usd":122000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":58},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-20T20:11:29Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-20","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T06:15:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":77,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":77},"description":"Your mission\nplanqc builds full stack neutral-atom quantum computers. What decides whether they become useful is which applications they can run, and at what cost in real physical resources. Quantum chemistry and correlated electronic materials are the most credible candidates, and answering the question rigorously takes early fault-tolerant algorithm design grounded in block encodings, qubitization and quantum signal processing.As Team Lead for Gate-Based Quantum Chemistry, you will build and lead the team that turns these algorithms into a credible path to useful quantum advantage on our hardware. You will set the technical direction for our gate-based algorithm work in quantum chemistry and correlated materials, and translate it into concrete, resource-estimated algorithms whose costs are expressed in the operations our machines actually perform. Together with the hardware team you will identify which architectural choices matter most for end-to-end application performance, and feed that insight back into both algorithm design and hardware development.\nThe role combines technical leadership with real people responsibility. You will hire your team members, set their priorities, and give them room to grow. It suits someone who has led a research team before, who thinks end-to-end about cost and application value, and who is comfortable moving between hardware physicists, software engineers, and industrial customers.\nYour responsibilities\nLead and grow a team of quantum chemistry scientists, including hiring, onboarding, prioritisation, technical mentoring, career development, and performance feedback.\nOwn the technical roadmap for gate-based algorithms in quantum chemistry and correlated electronic materials, balancing scientific ambition against realistic hardware timelines.\nDesign, analyse, and benchmark fault-tolerant quantum algorithms based on block encodings, qubitization and quantum signal processing, including end-to-end resource estimation for application-relevant problem instances.\nDrive hardware and software co-design with our hardware and architecture teams, translating algorithmic requirements into hardware specifications and exploiting the specific strengths of neutral-atom platforms in algorithm design.\nTake responsibility for internal and external projects, delivering customer, consortium, and grant-funded work on time and at high scientific quality.\nAcquire new projects and partners by identifying industry and research opportunities, leading grant proposals, and representing planqc in customer meetings, consortia, and at conferences.\nCommunicate results credibly to technical and non-technical audiences, from publications and customer deliverables to internal decision documents.\nWhat you bring\nPhD in Physics, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Chemistry, or a related field.\nSeveral years of post-PhD experience in academia or industry working on quantum algorithms.\nProven track record in people management. You have led a team or research group and have experience in hiring, developing, and retaining scientists.\nExpert knowledge of fault-tolerant quantum chemistry algorithms and techniques like block encodings, qubitization, quantum signal processing and quantum singular value transformation.\nHands-on experience with quantum resource estimation and algorithmic cost analysis under realistic error-correction assumptions.\nNice to have\nKnowledge of, or clear interest in, dynamical mean-field theory and strongly correlated materials.\nFamiliarity with neutral-atom quantum computing and its architectural features.\nExperience with tensor network methods and classical simulation of quantum systems.\nExperience writing successful grant proposals or acquiring industrial projects.\nSolid scientific Python skills and experience with collaborative software development.\nExperience working in an agile (Scrum) environment.\nGerman language skills.\nWhy join planqc\nAt planqc, you will work on one of the most promising quantum computing architectures alongside a highly driven and collaborative team spanning physics, engineering, and software.We combine deep-tech research with an engineering mindset, turning scientific breakthroughs into scalable quantum systems.\nJoining us means:\nBringing quantum advantage to quantum chemistry use cases by leveraging hardware software co-design workflows\nCollaborating with an exceptional, international team across disciplines\nContributing to a fast-growing quantum startup at a pivotal stage\nBenefits at planqc\nFlexible working: Flexible hours and hybrid work where the role allows.\nCompany pension: Betriebliche Altersvorsorge with an employer contribution.\nHealth and fitness: EGYM Wellpass for gyms, pools and studios, plus regular Health Days.\nJob bike: Lease a bike through planqc.\nLearning and development: Trainings and conference participation, including international conferences. Plus regular internal learning sessions where colleagues share their knowledge.\nRelocation and visa support: Practical support for international hires and their move to Germany or Austria.\nFour locations: Headquarters in Garching, an office in central Munich, plus sites in Ulm and Innsbruck.\nTeam culture: Regular team and company events throughout the year, from after work socials to our summer and Christmas parties.\nIf you're excited about leading the team that turns fault-tolerant quantum chemistry algorithms into a credible application for neutral-atom quantum computers, we'd love to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5522,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"Germany","iso":"DE","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Quantum Computing Hardware"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T09:26:49Z"},{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T10:20:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":50,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.83,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":77,"expected_fill_days":109,"reasons":["conf:4","win:late","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/planqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/planqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T07:03:39Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12402,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":9437},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=9437"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fplanqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fplanqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fplanqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/planqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fplanqc-team-lead-gate-based-quantum-chemistry"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":226877}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"planqc.eu","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":226877},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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