Quantum Computing Intern

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are-with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. 

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

Skills and Competencies

Experience working with several programming languages (most importantly Python)

- Experience with cloud computing, software development and data pipelines

- Knowledge of quantum computing algorithms, particularly gate-based quantum computing

and hybrid techniques

- Experience working with quantum computing SDKs (qiskit, cirq, pennylane, or others)

- Familiarity with Tensor Network libraries and techniques (cuTensorNet, TeNPy or others) is

a desirable

- Experience on Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence algorithms and tools is desirable

- Experience on Quantitative finance is desirable

- Experience in technical writing in a scientific or technical field

Must also be experienced in:

- Performing statistical analysis

- Predictive modelling

- Conceptual modelling

- Creating tutorials, prototypes, demonstrations

Education

- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related field.

- MSc/PhD student in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related field

preferred but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

- Develop use cases for which classical algorithms struggle, identify and address computational bottlenecks with quantum/inspired methods. Engage hands-on, review current literature, participate in research, and collaborate with domain experts to craft innovative solutions.

- Identify computational bottlenecks and potential business advantage in high impact use cases for Moody’s clients in collaboration with Moody’s subject matter experts - Develop new or apply existing quantum/quantum-inspired algorithms to specific applications and benchmark them against our current classical solvers.

- Review current quantum/quantum inspired algorithms literature to choose the most promising techniques to address current computational bottlenecks - Implement new solvers with relevant libraries/SDKs and integrate them in our benchmarking platform, QFStudio

- Contribute to Moody’s IP by developing innovative solutions.

- Write white papers, thought leadership pieces, and reports with your project results - Work on resource estimation for fault-tolerant quantum computing algorithms - Demonstrate some level of autonomy and the ability to learn new skills and domains.

- Collaborate with the external academic community and business community - Partner with other ML groups inside the company to find hybrid solutions and benchmarks

About the team

The Quantum Taskforce mission is to evaluate how quantum computing can disrupt our industry

and Moody’s products in the market, evaluate the industry maturity, establish partnerships, and

position Moody’s as a referent in the quantum computing sector for finance. The team creates

proofs of concept leveraging our state-of-the-art financial models and our extensive datasets across

the company.

We have 4 focus areas:

1. Thought leadership: we translate the breakthroughs in the field to professionals in the financial

sector, build training materials and engage in use case discovery and co-development with our

clients.

2. Community: we want to stay close to research and talent by interacting with some of the most

active student communities and research groups, like research groups or research engagements.

3. Use case development - research and develop quantum or quantum-inspired algorithms for

relevant use-cases for Moody's.

4. Cybersecurity - protecting our company against the Year 2 Quantum and collaborating in the

quantum safe financial forum to ensure the whole financial sector transitions to Post quantum

crypto.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.