HPC Platform Engineer, Software, Center for Quantum Computing

The Models Quantum & Silicon (MQS) 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 an HPC Platform Engineer to develop automate and maintain high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure on AWS that CQC scientists and engineers use for quantum computing hardware design and simulation. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable large-scale HPC workloads with MPI-based parallelism on EC2 instances manage graphical environments for computer-aided engineering applications and accelerate the research computing lifecycle through automation and infrastructure-as-code. The ideal candidate will be able to translate high-level science and simulation requirements into reliable deliverables (including cluster orchestration job scheduling CI/CD pipelines reproducible environments and artifact management) that are performant scalable and secure. This requires someone who (1) has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers (2) demonstrates ownership by initiating and driving projects to completion and (3) is comfortable operating at the intersection of traditional HPC and cloud-native infrastructure.

Why MQS
Models Quantum & Silicon is a brand new organization within Amazon. Were building the full stack of compute to power the next era of innovation. One Org. One Mission. Limitless Impact!

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Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include some combination of the following:

* Administer and automate cloud-based HPC environments by deploying and maintaining clusters managing OS and software stacks building containers provisioning users and securing systems.
* Support computer-aided engineering and computational science workflows (e.g. Palace) by improving HPC environment robustness performance and availability across instance types and regions.
* Anticipate and expand CQC computational capacity leveraging AWS to accelerate the quantum hardware design cycle.
* Design reproducible development environments and own dependency build and release management across interdependent research software projects.
* Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Docker AWS CDK).
* Maintain Amazons high security bar while enabling fast-paced development; implement observability and monitoring for rapid debugging and high uptime.

We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles a bias for action superior problem-solving and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As an HPC Platform Engineer embedded in 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 strengthen and scale our HPC platform and accelerate the computational workflows that underpin quantum hardware design. This requires working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against time-to-delivery. Once a proposal has been reviewed and accepted youll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth rollout. You will work closely with engineers and scientists on the team to understand their simulation workloads parallelism requirements and tooling needs.

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

- 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
- 2 years of designing or architecting (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience using infrastructure-as-code to design and deploy cloud services

- Experience with distributed systems at scale
- Experience in an AWS environment including VPC EC2 EBS S3 SQS CloudFormation and Lambda
- Experience in network fundamentals (DNS DHCP TCP/IP routing switching HTTP)
- Experience in Kubernetes Docker or containers ecosystem
- Experience working with scientists in a research environment
- Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure

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