[11] In 2002, he left Europe to work as a postdoctoral researcher with Robert J. Schoelkopf within the Department of Applied Physics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
[11] During this time, he was an author on papers regarding the coupling of superconducting qubits via a cavity bus and the coherent interaction of a single photon to a Cooper-pair box, among others.
[7][13][14] In 2004 he was appointed as an associate research scientist in the Department of Applied Physics at Yale and in June 2005 he was elected as a tenure-track assistant professor at ETH Zurich.
Since January 2006, Wallraff has held a professorship position at ETH Zurich where he is the head of the Quantum Device Lab within the Laboratory for Solid State Physics.
[31][32] He is also a member of the Scientific Committee for the Swiss National Science Foundation National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Quantum Science and Technology (QSIT),[33] a member of the Global Future Council for the Future of Computing at the World Economic Forum,[34] and an Associate Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.