Job Summary

About NIIT

NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development Corporation that is building a manpower pool for global industry requirements. The company, which was set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world’s leading training companies owing to its vast, yet comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises, and Institutions.

NIIT is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic

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Role: Technical Consultant

Duration: FLC

Mode: Remote

Location; USA

We are seeking a Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Quantum Computing to anchor the design, development, and delivery of enterprise training programs for technology, R&D, and innovation audiences. The role blends deep technical credibility with hands-on instructional capability — turning a fast-evolving field into structured, business-relevant learning that scales across our client base.

The Lead SME will partner with instructional designers, learning architects, and delivery managers to build flagship quantum learning paths spanning awareness-level executive briefings through advanced practitioner tracks (quantum algorithms, QML, post-quantum cryptography, hybrid quantum-classical workflows). The role is both author and instructor — owning content quality and personally facilitating senior-audience and train-the-trainer sessions.

Learning Design & Architecture

• Design end-to-end quantum learning paths across awareness, foundation, intermediate, and advanced tiers, mapped to defined personas (developers, architects, data scientists, security, leadership).
• Define learning outcomes, competency models, and assessment rubrics for each module; align with enterprise capability frameworks and certification pathways.
• Curate the technology stack for hands-on labs and recommend simulator vs. real-hardware progression.

Content Development

• Author technically rigorous courseware — slides, instructor guides, lab exercises, datasets, code notebooks, knowledge checks, and capstone projects.
• Translate research-grade material into corporate-ready learning with appropriate abstraction, business framing, and use-case anchoring (finance, pharma, logistics, cybersecurity).
• Maintain a content refresh cadence to keep pace with hardware progress, SDK updates, and emerging standards.

Experience

• Education: Master's or Ph.D. in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or related quantitative discipline. Specialization in quantum information science strongly preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 5+ years in a corporate environment in roles such as quantum researcher, applied scientist, R&D engineer, technical trainer, or quantum solutions architect. Pure-academic profiles without industry exposure will not be considered.
• Technical depth: Working command of quantum mechanics fundamentals, quantum circuit model, gate-based and (preferably) annealing paradigms, key algorithms, error correction basics, and quantum machine learning.
• Tooling: Hands-on with at least two of Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, Amazon Braket, Q#/Azure Quantum; comfortable in Python and Jupyter.
• Adjacent fluency: Familiarity with post-quantum cryptography landscape (NIST PQC standards), hybrid HPC-quantum workflows, and the major hardware modalities (superconducting, trapped-ion, photonic, neutral atom).
• Delivery experience: Demonstrable track record of designing AND delivering technical training to professional audiences — not just lecturing in academic settings. Should be able to share sample courseware, recordings, or learner outcomes.
• Communication: Able to pitch the same concept three ways — to a board, to an architect, to a developer — without losing rigor.