Hybrid Quantum-HPC Platform Engineer

Nvidia Corporation in; Westford (MA); Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA seeks a Senior HPC and Quantum Systems Engineer to lead the hybrid Quantum-HPC platform engineering efforts in a state-of-the-art facility. You will build, deploy, and operate a platform that couples large GPU clusters with physical quantum processors and orchestrate access via APIs, CUDA-Q, cuQuantum, and Slurm.

You will ensure reliability and lifecycle management of the quantum environment, coordinate with networking and facilities for power and cooling, and collaborate with hardware

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on experience operating HPC or large-scale compute infrastructure in production environments.
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree with equivalent experience in Physics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Computer Science (PhD a plus).
• Strong background in Linux systems administration, job schedulers (Slurm or equivalent), and computing environments committed to reliable operation.
• Proven experience working in data center environments, including networking, storage, power, and operational constraints.
• Familiarity with quantum computing concepts and hardware architectures (neutral atom, trapped ion, superconducting, photonic).
• Experience with or strong interest in quantum software environments including CUDA-Q, Qiskit, Cirq, PennyLane, Braket, or similar.
• Comfort working across system boundaries: control systems, APIs, networking, and performance tooling.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and operate a hybrid computing platform combining large-scale NVIDIA GPU clusters with physical quantum processors.
• Integrate quantum control systems and access nodes with HPC infrastructure using APIs and orchestration frameworks.
• Be responsible for the reliability, performance, administrations, and lifecycle management of the Quantum environment.
• Work closely with networking and facilities teams to ensure power, cooling, timing, environmental controls, and low-latency connectivity meet quantum hardware requirements.
• Serve as a technical interface to quantum hardware partners, collaborating on system bring-up, connectivity, control interfaces, and co-design opportunities.
• Help define hosting, systems architecture, and integration requirements for new quantum systems entering the facility.
• Partner with internal researchers and engineers to deploy, optimize, and benchmark hybrid workloads across simulation, quantum error correction, calibration, optimization, and machine learning.
• Prototype, document, and evaluate end-to-end workflows that demonstrate the capabilities of the platform.
• Support researchers with application solving and standard methodologies.

Skills

Linux administration

HPC operations

Job scheduling (Slurm)

Quantum software environments

APIs and orchestration

Networking and data center ops

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

CUDA-Q

cuQuantum

NVQlink

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Braket

Slurm

Job description

NVIDIA seeks a Senior HPC and Quantum Systems Engineer to lead the hybrid Quantum-HPC platform engineering efforts in a state-of-the-art facility. You will build, deploy, and operate a platform that couples large GPU clusters with physical quantum processors and orchestrate access via APIs, CUDA-Q, cuQuantum, and Slurm.

You will ensure reliability and lifecycle management of the quantum environment, coordinate with networking and facilities for power and cooling, and collaborate with hardware