1 day ago
Base Salary
$229k - $309k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the software and gateware runtime for a next-generation quantum control system.
- Build emulation tooling for exploring real-time quantum error detection and correction control-system requirements.
- Make engineering tradeoff decisions that inform the control hardware and software roadmap.
- Translate science and software requirements into design proposals and drive implementation through rollout.
- Release open-source software and publish research advancing fault-tolerant quantum computing.
- Mentor scientists and document systems to enable broader contributions to the codebase.
Requirements
- PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions while handling ambiguity and competing objectives.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience leading experienced scientists and developing junior members toward business or industry career tracks.
- Experience working with scientists in a research environment.
- Experience with quantum error correction and quantum control systems.
- Preferred: 10 or more years of relevant industry or academic experience.
- Preferred: knowledge of algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis; experience creating novel algorithms; and peer-reviewed scientific contributions.
- Preferred: experience with AWS tools and services, the broader quantum computing software stack, GPU-accelerated decoding for QEC, open-source software, and published quantum-computing research.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance and related coverage, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health support, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon package.
- Amazon provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career-development resources, employee affinity groups, and workplace flexibility.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.