Starting September 2023, Jason will be working as a Quantum Research Intern at Hughes Research Laboratories (HRL Labs) in Malibu, California. Jason will be working with the quantum theory team at HRL on the DARPA Quantum Benchmarking grant. He will work on the framework to benchmark quantum computers’ ability to solve industry relevant quantum simulation and quantum chemistry calculations. His focus is on the appropriate difficulty metrics for Hamiltonian instances, and progressive testing of larger systems along these metrics. This also includes the task of choosing synthetic Hamiltonians for which the answer is known so that the performance of the quantum device can be accurately measured.