Amazon System Development Engineer AWS CQC 

United States, California, San Francisco 

550430117

The AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is looking to hire a Systems Development Engineer to develop and maintain high performance computing (HPC) systems on AWS that CQC scientists and engineers use for quantum computing hardware design and simulation. These systems enable running large-scale HPC applications with MPI- and OpenMP-based parallelism on EC2 instances, as well as provide graphical environments to run computer-aided engineering applications.Key job responsibilities
- Administer cloud-based HPC environments, including automating the deployment and maintenance of clusters, automating application testing, provisioning user accounts, managing and updating operating systems and software environments, building and deploying containers, debugging problems, and securing these systems.
- Anticipate computational resource needs within, and expand the capabilities of, the CQC to support developing a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. Improvements to computational infrastructure will allow the CQC to expand physical modeling capabilities used within design, utilizing the scalable compute power of AWS to accelerate the design cycle.Diverse Experiences
AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.Work/Life Balance

- 4+ years of systems design, software development, operations, automation, and process improvement experience
- Experience leading the design, automation, deployment, and support of large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Experience with high-performance computing schedulers (OpenPBS, Slurm) and package managers (Spack or similar)
- Experience with technologies for heterogeneous large-scale computing (CUDA-aware MPI, etc.)
- Proficient in Python, C++, Cmake, Bash scripting
- Proficient with GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD
- Experience with computer-aided engineering and visualization applications
- Experience with AWS compute, storage, networking, and security services
- Bonus: experience with Prefect, ECS, EKS, JuliaPursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.