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START HERE: Welcome to the Quantum Engineering Lab ⚛️
Hey everyone, so glad to see you here 👋 Here’s how to get started (do this right now – it’ll take 10 minutes): 🎥 Watch the pinned video in this post (if you haven't already) 👋 Introduce yourself in a post. Share one challenge you’ve faced on your quantum career journey (big or small). Also feel free to post any questions you have right now 🗳️ Vote in the poll below 📱 Download the Skool app 📚 Check out the Classroom tab at the top I HIGHLY encourage you to use your real name and profile picture. This is a professional community, and we all want you to bring your genuine self to the discussion. What's your current education or employment status?
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Goal of this Community: Build Your Quantum Career Roadmap🗺️
Hey everyone, Every Quantum company has a roadmap. Why? Because without one, it’s almost impossible to know where you’re going. The same applies to building a career in Quantum Engineering. It’s not about blindly chasing a job title. It’s about figuring out your path, step by step. That’s what this community is here for: helping you sketch out your own roadmap. Not a cookie-cutter one, but something personal that fits your skills, interests, and goals. Along the way, we’ll dig into questions like: 👉 Why do you actually want to work in Quantum Computing? 👉 Which technical skills do you genuinely enjoy? 👉 How could those skills impact Quantum? 👉 What kinds of roles exist that would use them? 👉 What Quantum knowledge is worth focusing on? 👉 How do you level up until you’re really good at your technical and Quantum skills? 👉 How do you actually get your first experience in Quantum? Just like companies revise their roadmaps all the time, you’ll probably update yours too. And that’s normal. This community is about supporting each other as we figure it out, share wins, and help each other move closer to landing (and thriving in) a Quantum role.
Goal of this Community: Build Your Quantum Career Roadmap🗺️
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[DO THIS NOW] Make your intro post!
Title: Intro: Hey I’m Ari, and I’m a Quantum Hardware Engineer at IBM Hey! Everyone make your first post introducing yourself. Copy this post and answer: 1. What’s your educational background 2. What’s one challenge you faced learning quantum computing or navigating a quantum career? 3. Bonus points: share a picture of your workspace! Here’s my answers: 1. I have a bachelors degree in computer engineering and a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin 2. My biggest challenge when navigating my quantum career was getting my first research experience. 3. See below for my workspace pic!!
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I'm doing something super challenging and I'll be gone for ~12 days
HI guys, I'll be gone from 11/19/2025 - 11/30/2025 and I won't be able to be online at all. Watch the video to find out what I'm doing for those days.
I'm doing something super challenging and I'll be gone for ~12 days
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Given that I have a pretty good understanding of my skills, experience, and where I want to go, I thought I'd combine these milestones into one post to save some time (plus its exam season!) What TECHNICAL work do you look forward to doing? I've always been better at and enjoyed my hardware/electronics/devices classes more than my software classes. This has been reflected in my grades, and where I choose to spend my time on. I know that if/when I enter the quantum engineering industry, I will somewhat prefer to be physically tinkering with, debugging, and building things in the lab rather than sitting in front of a monitor. As a result, I choose to focus my efforts in improving those skills. This is reflected in my experience with materials fabrication and characterization, and in my RF lab work. What's one thing you will do to deepen your technical skills? The technical skill that I have in mind is RF engineering. So far, I have done coursework on it, and I have done a undergraduate research project that exposed me to MATLAB, HFSS, and VNA testing. I intend to complete an internship next summer on this topic as well, where I will be exposed to Python scripting, circuit design, and fabrication. I hope that after these experiences, I will be able to apply to quantum positions beyond my senior year. I will also be taking some electives in quantum physics and computing. What is your unique starting point? As approach the end of my undergraduate degree (3 semesters left), I will have had a lot of research experience (with results hopefully soon), internship experience, and a good GPA. My most competitive asset in industry is my RF engineering experience, while my research experiences prepares me for graduate school. My biggest qualm is that I was not able to directly get any quantum experience to apply my RF skills to before graduating. I goal is to hopefully do a capstone related to quantum computing, and then apply to graduate programs where I can apply my RF skills to a quantum computing lab. I already volunteer a lot in different leadership positions in both technical and non-technical clubs, so I'd say I have a good grasp on the soft skills.
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