Senior Hybrid Quantum–HPC Platform Engineer

NVIDIA; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 224,000 - 431,000; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the Hybrid Quantum–HPC Platform Engineering effort. You will build and operate a platform that combines NVIDIA GPU clusters with physical quantum processors, and you’ll integrate quantum control with HPC infrastructure using APIs and orchestration tools.

You will ensure reliability and performance of the quantum environment, work across Linux systems, schedulers, networking, and storage; collaborate with partners; and enable researchers through

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.

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 (CUDA-Q, cuQuantum, NVQlink, Slurm).
• Be responsible for reliability, performance, administrations, and lifecycle management of the Quantum environment (Linux, QPU hardware, job schedulers, networking, containers, storage).
• Collaborate with networking and facilities teams to ensure power, cooling, timing, environmental controls meet hardware requirements.
• Serve as a technical interface to quantum hardware partners for system bring‑up, connectivity, and co‑design opportunities.

Skills

Linux administration

Quantum concepts

CUDA-Q

Slurm

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in Physics/EE/CS

Tools

Qiskit

Cirq

PennyLane

Braket

Job description

NVIDIA is seeking an experienced engineer to lead the Hybrid Quantum–HPC Platform Engineering effort. You will build and operate a platform that combines NVIDIA GPU clusters with physical quantum processors, and you’ll integrate quantum control with HPC infrastructure using APIs and orchestration tools.

You will ensure reliability and performance of the quantum environment, work across Linux systems, schedulers, networking, and storage; collaborate with partners; and enable researchers through