Amazon · 1 month ago
System Development Engineer - Quantum Engineering, AWS CQC
San Francisco, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$116K/yr - $201K/yr
4+ years expAmazon is seeking a Systems Development Engineer for its AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) to develop and maintain high performance computing systems. The role involves administering cloud-based HPC environments, collaborating with teams to enhance performance, and expanding capabilities to support quantum computing hardware design.
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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
Support computer-aided engineering end users by improving the robustness and performance of the HPC environment. Collaborate with partner teams and software developers to increase availability across instance types, manage data spread across clusters in different regions, and improve integration with other services
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
Qualification
Required
4+ years of administrative experience in networking, storage systems, operating systems and hands-on systems engineering experience
Experience in automating, deploying, and supporting 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 utilizing AWS cloud solutions in a DevOps environment
Preferred
Experience with HPC software application development and build systems
Experience administering shared-user high-performance computing (HPC) environments
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
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Funding
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$8.11BKey Investors
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1997-05-15IPO
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