Senior Design Automation Engineer, Software, Center for Quantum Computing

About the role

The Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. We are looking to hire a Senior Design Automation Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our superconducting chip design teams to enable their working designing, simulating, and improving the performance of our quantum devices.

Responsibilities

• Work with designers to build a quantum processor design automation flow. This will involve a combination of writing new software and influencing the working model of our scientist collaborators on the design team.
• Develop a shared Python library for analysis and optimization routines that can be re-used across designs.
• Profile and improve the performance of design, simulation, & analysis tools to enable scaling to larger devices.
• Leverage infrastructure-as-code to define and orchestrate high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
• Make changes to the database and UI as necessary to capture and visualize design progress and performance.
• Look for opportunities to accelerate design workflows by taking advantage of the latest advancements in scientific computing, machine learning, and open-source chip layout and design software.
• Empower scientists to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience working with scientists in a research environment
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance)
• Experience setting up and running high-performance computing (HPC) workflows
• Experience running physics simulations using Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with chip design and layout software
• Experience with superconducting quantum computing
• Experience with common open-source scientific software
• Experience with AWS tools and services (or more generally, cloud computing)
• Experience with releasing open source software and/or publishing research papers

Pay

Base salary range: $192,200 - $260,000 annually (USA, CA, San Francisco). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).