Lab Software Engineer, Control & Calibration, AWS Center for Quantum Computing

Description

he Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer.

We are looking to hire a Lab Software Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing, calibrating, and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate will be able to translate high-level science requirements into software implementations (e.g. CDK scripts, telemetry systems, instrument servers, data visualizations) that are performant, scalable, and secure. This requires someone who (1) has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers, and (2) demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. As a Lab Software Engineer, this role has a particular emphasis on ensuring the availability and consistency of the laboratory software infrastructure that supports the experimental physics efforts at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing.

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Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities include the following :

Develop and integrate telemetry systems to enable real-time observability and monitoring of our laboratory software and hardware.

Ensure availability and consistency of server-level and instrument-level logs, metrics, and traces.

Partner with science teams to build intuitive and compact visualizations from observability data.

Leverage infrastructure-as-code to continuously deploy improvements to our laboratory software systems.

Empower others to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, a bias for action, superior problem-solving, and excellent communication skills. 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 stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.

A day in the life

The majority of your time will be spent on projects that extend the functional capabilities or performance of our internal research software stack. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against time-to-delivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted, you'll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many high-level experimental goals have cross-cutting requirements, you'll often work closely with other engineers or scientists or on the team.

About the team

You will be joining the software team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and software engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.

Export Control Requirement :

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be able to obtain a U.S export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements, please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.

Basic Qualifications

2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Experience programming with at least one software programming language

2+ years of development / programming / scripting language (Python / Java / Bash / Perl) experience

Experience with full-stack web development (e.g. client-server architectures, databases)

Experience working with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Grafana)

Experience with using infrastructure-as-code to design and deploy cloud services

Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with scientists in a research environment

Experience with AWS tools and services (e.g. CDK)

Experience with standard laboratory test and measurement equipment

Experience with Javascript and React

Experience in experimental physics or quantum computing

Experience with IoT solution development or deployment

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