AWS Cloud HPC Engineer for Quantum Computing Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 148,700 - 201,200; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an HPC Platform Engineer to develop, automate, and maintain HPC infrastructure on AWS for quantum computing hardware design and simulation.

You will enable large-scale MPI-based workloads, manage graphical environments, and drive reproducible environments and artifact management across research software projects. Join a team advancing quantum computing hardware and software in a dynamic research setting.

Qualifications

• Experience automating, deploying and supporting large-scale infra.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.
• Experience with Linux/Unix environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code to deploy cloud services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Administer and automate cloud-based HPC environments by deploying and maintaining clusters, managing OS and software stacks, building containers, provisioning users, and securing systems.
• Support computer‑aided engineering and computational science workflows by improving HPC environment robustness, performance, and availability across instances and regions.
• Anticipate and expand CQC computational capacity, leveraging AWS to accelerate the quantum hardware design cycle.
• Design reproducible development environments and own dependency, build, and release management across interdependent research software projects.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Docker, AWS CDK).
• Maintain Amazon's high security bar while enabling fast-paced development; implement observability and monitoring for rapid debugging and high uptime.

Skills

Automating infrastructure

CI/CD

Python

Ruby

Golang

Java

C++

C#

Rust

Linux

IaC

Distributed systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco is seeking an HPC Platform Engineer to develop, automate, and maintain HPC infrastructure on AWS for quantum computing hardware design and simulation.

You will enable large-scale MPI-based workloads, manage graphical environments, and drive reproducible environments and artifact management across research software projects. Join a team advancing quantum computing hardware and software in a dynamic research setting.