Senior Quantum Control & QEC Scientist

Amazon; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's MQS Center for Quantum Computing seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to advance a fault-tolerant quantum computer. You will work on software that supports quantum control hardware, collaborate across teams, and drive projects from concept to production.

You’ll contribute to the control stack, release open-source software, and publish research while mentoring colleagues and shaping the roadmap for real-time quantum error detection and correction.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience working with scientists in a research environment.
• Experience with quantum error correction and quantum control systems.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the software/gateware runtime for our next-generation quantum control system.
• Build emulation tooling to explore the requirements space of control systems for real-time quantum error detection and correction.
• Make engineering tradeoff decisions to inform our control hardware/software roadmap.
• Demonstrate thought leadership by releasing open-source software and publishing research.
• Mentor and document to empower other scientists to contribute to the codebase.

Skills

Quantum error correction

Quantum control systems

Collaboration with scientists

Education

PhD or Master’s degree

Tools

AWS tools

GPU-accelerated decoding

Job description

Amazon's MQS Center for Quantum Computing seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to advance a fault-tolerant quantum computer. You will work on software that supports quantum control hardware, collaborate across teams, and drive projects from concept to production.

You’ll contribute to the control stack, release open-source software, and publish research while mentoring colleagues and shaping the roadmap for real-time quantum error detection and correction.