>>12285870>Does anyone here actually work on quantum computing in an industry position?Sort of. My company has been throwing fun money at internal projects and I ended up leading a QC project. I've never been to graduate school, but am apparently employable for this kind of work by virtue of being the only person interested enough to suggest anything. My physics background is bad, but quantum computing can be understood with very little QM and I'm so deep in the literature I can propose plausible projects. I imagine most people who do quantum computing in industry and aren't building hardware have a similar background. Once I'm done laying the groundwork, they'll probably hire someone like OP to move things along.
If you have several publications, a PhD, and you can talk about getting a job as "a career move" rather than "starting a career", you don't have anything to worry about. Industry is a desperate struggle to find applications for your work that can bring in external funding. I imagine grant chasing feels the same. Pick your poison.
