Senior Quantum Cryogenic Control Electronics Scientist

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

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to design cryogenic control electronics for large-scale superconducting quantum processors, focusing on digital circuits and qubit control. You will take designs from concept through simulation, layout, and fabrication handoff, evaluating wiring, power, and thermal budgets while collaborating with qubit-device teams.

The role includes publishing results where appropriate and delivering tapeout-ready artifacts

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

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 dissipation at each cryogenic stage, 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 the organization's 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

Algorithms

Data structures

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in CS/CE/ML or related field

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to design cryogenic control electronics for large-scale superconducting quantum processors, focusing on digital circuits and qubit control. You will take designs from concept through simulation, layout, and fabrication handoff, evaluating wiring, power, and thermal budgets while collaborating with qubit-device teams.

The role includes publishing results where appropriate and delivering tapeout-ready artifacts