FPGA Engineer 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 for an FPGA Engineer to contribute to our quantum control platform. As a part of the control stack team you will develop and integrate RTL designs and embedded software with an eye towards overcoming novel challenges in experimental quantum computing such as highthroughput device characterization & calibration or enabling realtime quantum error correction protocols. The ideal candidate will help us work backwards from our broader experimental goals driving improvements to our control platform at the hardware/software interface while ensuring that highlevel requirements (e.g. latency bandwidth resource utilization) are met.

This position is onsite at our lab located on the Caltech campus in Pasadena CA.


Key job responsibilities
Work with stakeholders to understand and refine hardware/software requirements.
Propose architectural or microarchitectural updates to our control platform to meet requirements.
Implement RTL subsystems in Verilog or SystemVerilog.
Develop embedded software in C C or Rust for highperformance nearrealtime tasks.
Verify & validate designs both in simulation and in benchtop / realworld conditions.
Ensure new features are successfully integrated into our Pythonbased experimental software stack.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles resourcefulness and a bias for action superior problemsolving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a member of 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 majority of your time will be spent on projects that extend the functional capabilities or performance of our existing control platform. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate hardware and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against timetodelivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted you will drive the implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many highlevel experimental goals have crosscutting requirements youll often work closely with other software or hardware engineers on the team.

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

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Bachelors degree or equivalent
3 years of noninternship professional FPGA development experience using Verilog/VHDL or equivalent
2 years of experience developing embedded software in C C or Rust
Experience with a scripting language (bash TCL Python etc)
Experience performing hardware bringup/debugging
Experience with standard communication interfaces (e.g. USB PCIe Ethernet)

. degree or equivalent in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Physics or Computer Science
Experience with soft core RISCV implementation
Experience with Xilinx SoC platforms
Experience with highlevel synthesis tools
Experience developing realtime operating system (RTOS) applications
Experience with lowlevel device driver and kernel development (esp. on Xilinx MPSoC or other ARM architectures)
Experience with highperformance networking technologies (e.g. DPDK RDMA)
Experience with lowlatency distributed computation
Knowledge of Linux kernel internals and networking or storage subsystems architecture

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