Sr. Software Development Engineer, Center for Quantum Computing

Amazon • Pasadena, CA

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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.

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

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

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level