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New job postings continue persistent decline – Europe rebounds New quantum technology job announcements declined month/month in June, globally and across North America. The flash preliminary data for June indicates a mild decline of 2.3% for the all-inclusive global number, which is an improvement over the persistent m/m, double-digit percentage declines in recent months.  New Read more...

New job posting activity continues steep decline Monthly new job announcements once again dropped in May, globally and regionally. Globally, the number of new, public postings for Quantum Technology jobs decreased by 16.9% compared to the number of new jobs in April. Europe-based organizations experienced a decline of 25.9%, while North American organizations declined by Read more...

New job posting activity continued downward step in April Monthly new job announcements dropped in April globally and regionally. The number of new, public postings for quantum technology jobs decreased by 24.0% compared to March. Europe-based organizations experienced a decline of 23.8%, while North American organizations declined by 17.5%. The table below indicates the month-over-month Read more...

Author: Hilary Kaye/HKA Topics pertaining mostly to the business of being an emerging quantum company dominated the first QED-C plenary meeting of 2024, spread over two days on the beautiful Northwestern University campus in Evanston, IL. Federal funding opportunities, navigating trade programs, working with national labs, protection from cyber and insider threats, communicating science to Read more...

Quantum computers are making great strides in quality, fidelity, and size. At the same time, users and application developers are eager to glimpse the expected power of quantum computing for addressing real-world problems, even if routinely delivering superior performance is still years in the future. As an industry, we need to ensure that quantum computers will deliver economic advantage to a broad market. The time is ripe to anticipate the needs of would-be application developers: What programming models will they use? What do they need to be successful? How will they extract performance from quantum processing units (QPUs)? Read more...

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Looking for quantum technology talent? How do other employers advertise their job and internship openings? These questions are answered by studying the distribution of open job in the quantum industry, globally. A complex data query was made of the global database and a surprising fact was uncovered. Of the 3,681 real-time job listings for quantum Read more...

One of the big stories in 2023 related to labor demand in the quantum technologies industry is that offering internships is on the rise—big time. In 2022, the number of new internship listings globally was 199, whereas by mid-December 2023 the number of new internships was 739, a 271% increase year-over-year. The YoY growth for Read more...

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s (QED-C) third annual Carl Williams Award was presented to Mark Wippich for his leadership of the QED-C Quantum Marketplace. The award was given to Wippich at the QED-C annual meeting in Palo Alto, CA on Dec. 14, 2023. “Mark Wippich has made invaluable contributions to QED-C, from launching the Quantum Read more...

 Obtaining hands-on experience can help you land a job in the quantum industry  Emerging technologies such as quantum and artificial intelligence have a growing demand for workers and seek individuals who can enter the field, learn new skills, and rapidly grow their knowledge base. “Upskilling” existing workers who have some of the needed skills is Read more...

There’s no doubt that quantum technologies will transform existing global supply chains, providing optimization solutions surrounding labor, raw materials, logistics, management of financial assets, and more. What we seldom hear about, however, is what’s happening to develop the quantum industry’s own supply chain.   Need a component? Make or modify one  With solid roots in Read more...

The Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s (QED-C) second annual Carl Williams Award was presented to Tom Lubinski for his long-standing support of QED-C, especially its standards-related efforts. The award was given to Lubinski at the QED-C annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in December 2022. According to QED-C Executive Director, Celia Merzbacher, “The spirit of this award Read more...

Authored by: Elliott Mason For a long time, the wonderful world of quantum mechanics has baffled and astounded scientists attempting to understand the universe. This has included understanding its intrinsic phenomena that occur at the smallest possible scale and, as the recent Nobel Prize in Physics to a trio of entanglement pioneers has reminded us, Read more...

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