Senior Quantum Design Automation Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Design Automation Engineer to join our software team and advance quantum device design automation.

You will work with chip designers to translate science requirements into Python APIs, automation routines, and HPC workflows, shaping scalable software for quantum computing.

The role emphasizes mentorship, collaboration with researchers, and applying open-source tools and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate design.

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience working with scientists in a research environment.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance).
• Experience setting up and running HPC workflows.
• Experience running physics simulations using Python.

Responsibilities

• Work with designers to build a quantum processor design automation flow. This will involve a combination of writing new software and influencing the working model of our scientist collaborators on the design team.
• Develop a shared Python library for analysis and optimization routines that can be re-used across designs.
• Profile and improve the performance of design, simulation, & analysis tools to enable scaling to larger devices.
• Leverage infrastructure-as-code to define and orchestrate high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
• Make changes to the database and UI as necessary to capture and visualize design progress and performance.
• Look for opportunities to accelerate design workflows by taking advantage of the latest advancements in scientific computing, machine learning, and open-source chip layout and design software.
• Empower scientists to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

HPC workflows

Physics simulations

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

AWS tools

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Design Automation Engineer to join our software team and advance quantum device design automation.

You will work with chip designers to translate science requirements into Python APIs, automation routines, and HPC workflows, shaping scalable software for quantum computing.

The role emphasizes mentorship, collaboration with researchers, and applying open-source tools and infrastructure-as-code to accelerate design.