Full-Stack Software Engineer Control Calibration AWS Center for Quantum Computing

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multidisciplinary team of scientists engineers and technicians on a mission to develop a faulttolerant quantum computer.

We are looking to hire a FullStack Software Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing calibrating and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate will be able to translate highlevel science requirements into software implementations (e.g. Python APIs/frameworks React components database schemas) that are performant scalable and intuitive. This requires someone who 1 has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers and 2 demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. This role has a particular emphasis on UI/UX development for the purposes of visualizing experimental data collected from our devices.

Key job responsibilities
Develop realtime dashboards that allow experimentalists to inspect the state of quantum device calibration.
Design intuitive scalable visualizations for understanding the performance of quantum computing systems.
Collaborate with scientists to build user interfaces that accelerate their daytoday experimental workflows.
Profile and optimize the performance of the database API and infrastructure to enable faster page load times.
Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure that underpins the web services offered by our team.
Empower others to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles a bias for action superior problemsolving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a software engineer embedded in a research organization you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation.

A day in the life
The lifetime of your projects will likely begin with a lot of discussion and negotiation with our scientists and engineers to translate their software and hardware feature requests into design proposals that demonstrate sensible tradeoffs between complexity and delivery. Once a design proposal has been accepted you will implement it in a logical and maintainable manner. You will also be encouraged to take ownership over the stability and quality of the software and hardware stack by identifying proposing and implementing features that will accelerate our realization of quantum computing technologies.

About the team
You will be joining the software team within the AWS Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and software engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.

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2 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language
2 years of Python software development experience
2 years of Javascript software development experience
Experience with fullstack web development (e.g. clientserver architectures databases)
Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning design implementation testing deployment and maintenance)

Experience working with scientists in a research environment
Experience working with SQL databases
Experience with AWS tools and services
Experience with GraphQL and React
Experience with common opensource scientific software
Experience in experimental physics or quantum computing

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.