Software Development Engineer - Device Design & Simulation, Center for Quantum Computing

- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in system design, including design patterns, reliability and scaling aspects
- MSc or PhD in a STEM discipline
- Strong background in numerical computing, simulation, and data processing
- Experience programming with Julia and Python
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Experience developing design verification and electronic design automation tools
- Experience working with scientists in a research environment
- Experience building software using AWS services

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The AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is hiring a Software Development Engineer to develop our data applications and infrastructure with a focus on supporting device and architecture theory and device design. You will work closely with other Software Development Engineers, Research Scientists, and a Technical Program Manager.

Key job responsibilities
* Work directly with scientists and engineers to understand their problems and propose workable solutions. Translate user stories into software design documents demonstrating sensible trade-offs between complexity and delivery.
* Implementation of design proposals in a logical and maintainable manner. Taking ownership over the stability and quality of the software stack by identifying, proposing, and implementing features that will accelerate our realization of quantum computing technologies.
* Identify bottlenecks, pain points, integration issues, and develop improvements to the design team's workflows.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, resourcefulness, a bias for action, superior problem-solving skills, and excellent communication skills. Candidates should also possess a genuine curiosity and readiness to grasp the domain knowledge of our research scientists. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a software engineer embedded in a research organization, you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and contribute to the development of fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Example projects include:

* Build and maintain cloud infrastructure to facilitate physics simulation workloads.
* Develop a framework enabling research scientists to orchestrate and administer their simulations.
* Enhance the modeling and error estimation capabilities of simulation pipelines by incorporating advanced statistical techniques.
* Design database schemas modeling processes and artifacts of our processor design workflow

About the team
You will be joining the Device Lifecycle software development team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of software engineers who are building software that enables scaling up quantum computing technologies.