Senior Quantum Cryogenic Control Electronics Scientist

Amazon Science; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to research and design cryogenic control hardware for large-scale quantum processors, focusing on superconducting digital circuits. You will model and simulate superconducting logic, evaluate wiring, power and thermal budgets, and co-design control with qubit devices.

You will lead design from concept through simulation, layout, and fabrication handoff, presenting results and contributing to peer-reviewed publications within a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML or related field.
• Experience publishing in top-tier peer-reviewed venues or patents.
• Proficiency programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, HPC.

Responsibilities

• Design and simulate superconducting digital circuits and cryogenic control/readout electronics for scalable qubit control.
• Develop and validate Josephson-junction circuit models, timing and margin analyses, and verification methodology for superconducting digital designs.
• Quantify system-level trade-offs—wiring count, power, latency, footprint—across candidate control architectures and communicate recommendations.
• Co-design control interfaces with qubit-device colleagues so control electronics and quantum devices are developed as one system.
• Deliver design artifacts through design-request and design-review processes, including tapeout-ready layouts and verification reports.
• Present results internally and, where appropriate, publish in peer-reviewed venues.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Publications

Education

PhD or Master’s with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML or related field

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon Science seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to research and design cryogenic control hardware for large-scale quantum processors, focusing on superconducting digital circuits. You will model and simulate superconducting logic, evaluate wiring, power and thermal budgets, and co-design control with qubit devices.

You will lead design from concept through simulation, layout, and fabrication handoff, presenting results and contributing to peer-reviewed publications within a collaborative team.