Any advice on breaking into the industry? Would be really neat to work as a quantum research engineer, or software engineer on quantum computers!

Google, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft all have quantum programs which use "regular" software engineers in various roles - for example, writing software to support researchers working in the labs. That's what I did for Microsoft. If you want to work on actual research yourself though, you'll probably need a PhD. There are some non-PhD positions that do research-adjacent work like simulating, implementing & refining researcher findings for the specific hardware the company is developing, but those are quite competitive/difficult to get (I tried!)

Microsoft also has a fairly large team working on Q# and the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit. That would also involve research-adjacent things like efficiently compiling programs to specific quantum device layouts with appropriate error correction schemes, etc.

ETH Zurich has a quantum engineering masters: https://master-qe.ethz.ch/

In that Vein, so does USC. MSc in Quantum Information Science https://viterbigradadmission.usc.edu/programs/masters/msprog...

Probably a PhD

Just wanted to say I watched your lecture on YouTube a while back and thought it was very well-done and informative. I learned a lot. Thank you!

Glad you enjoyed! I also wrote a couple of follow-up blog posts which examine quantum entanglement & quantum chemistry simulation, respectively:

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-07-chsh/

https://ahelwer.ca/post/2019-12-21-quantum-chemistry/

Nice! This seems to fit my learning style well. I prefer to understand why something matters, than progressively probe backwards into the theory.

That was incredibly insightful! Thank you sharing this!