Cloud HPC Engineer for Quantum Computing

Amazon Web Services (AWS); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco seeks an HPC Platform Engineer to develop, automate, and maintain high-performance computing infrastructure on AWS for the MQS Center of Quantum Computing.

The role supports quantum computing hardware design and simulation with MPI-based parallelism and containerized environments. You will collaborate with scientists and engineers, translate complex science requirements into reliable, scalable infrastructure, and drive CI/CD pipelines,

Qualifications

• Automate, deploy, and support large-scale infrastructure.
• 2+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code to deploy cloud services.

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 computational workflows by improving HPC robustness, performance, and availability across instance types 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

Automation

CI/CD

Python

Rust

Golang

C++

Java

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS CDK

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco seeks an HPC Platform Engineer to develop, automate, and maintain high-performance computing infrastructure on AWS for the MQS Center of Quantum Computing.

The role supports quantum computing hardware design and simulation with MPI-based parallelism and containerized environments. You will collaborate with scientists and engineers, translate complex science requirements into reliable, scalable infrastructure, and drive CI/CD pipelines,