The market right now
Alion currently lists 10 open OpenQASM jobs from 6 companies. 1 of them was posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 4 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. 1 of the 10 carries the marks of a stale or abandoned posting - open far beyond the usual time to fill, reposted, or on a board that mostly never closes a role - and is marked as likely inactive; the list can hide them. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are United States (4), Germany (1), Japan (1), and Finland (1). 20% of the listings are fully remote and a further 10% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open OpenQASM jobs right now are NVIDIA (5), Universal Quantum (1), Microsoft (1), Silicon Quantum Computing (1), QuTwo (1), and Yaqumo (1). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are OpenQASM (10), CUDA Toolkit (6), Qiskit (6), CUDA (6), Python (5), Cirq (5), NVIDIA cuQuantum (5), and HPC (4). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current OpenQASM jobs, 1 offers a relocation package and 1 includes equity. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
