Sr. Software Development Engineer, Center for Quantum Computing

About the position

The AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is seeking a Sr. Software Development

Engineer to lead the technical direction of our software team responsible for

accelerating the hardware operations flywheel. You will work closely with other

Software Development Engineers, Research Scientists, and a Technical Program

Manager.

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.

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.

Responsibilities

• You will lead the system architecture design, introduce best practices and

influence the team’s long-term decisions to ensure high-quality products. You

will also mentor and develop other engineers.

• You will 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.

• You will design software and implement it 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.

• You will identify bottlenecks, pain points, integration issues, and develop

improvements to the fabrication team's workflows.

• Build and maintain data streaming pipelines from our fabrication tools.
• Deploying forecasting ML models to production for predictive maintenance of

our fabrication tools.

• Develop features for streamlining fabrication planning, timeline estimation

and retrospective analysis of product flows.

• Design database schemas modeling processes and artifacts of our device

lifecycle workflow

Requirements

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software

development experience

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language

experience

• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and

scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Nice-to-haves

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including

coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes,

testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave