Hello all,
I’m in my final year of PhD and looking to graduate this fall. I looked extensively for a job related to my field and didn’t even get an interview. I work on cavity QED, phase transition and non-Gaussian light generation (broadly AMO physics/ Quantum Optics). There are many quantum computing related companies that have received significant funding and garnered a lot of attention, I was expecting that I would at least get one interview but that has not been the case.
I have a first-author publication in PRL and a second author in PRX Quantum and will have a couple more on arxiv soon. And the work is related to non-classical photonic states generated from light matter interactions which seems to the brief some companies like Infleqtion and Atom Computing are looking for. (I’m an international student, not sure if that really changes things or not ).
Do they prefer people with a postdoc or some extremely specific skill set? Are there any other industry roles that I can try for? I’d really appreciate any help as I’m close to graduating and would like to be able to make my rent. Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts on this if possible.