Amazon · 6 hours ago
Sr. Software Development Engineer, Center for Quantum Computing
Pasadena, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$168K/yr - $227K/yr
5+ years expAmazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer to lead the technical direction of their software team at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. The role involves designing software, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with scientists to accelerate quantum computing technologies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
You will lead the system architecture design, introduce best practices and influence the team’s long-term decisions to ensure high-quality products. You will also mentor and develop other engineers
You will work directly with scientists and engineers to understand their problems and propose workable solutions. Translate user stories into software design documents demonstrating sensible trade-offs between complexity and delivery
You will design software and implement it in a logical and maintainable manner. Taking ownership over the stability and quality of the software stack by identifying, proposing, and implementing features that will accelerate our realization of quantum computing technologies
You will identify bottlenecks, pain points, integration issues, and develop improvements to the fabrication team's workflows
Build and maintain data streaming pipelines from our fabrication tools
Deploying forecasting ML models to production for predictive maintenance of our fabrication tools
Develop features for streamlining fabrication planning, timeline estimation and retrospective analysis of product flows
Design database schemas modeling processes and artifacts of our device lifecycle workflow
Qualification
Required
5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Preferred
5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
Company
Amazon
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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