Software Development Engineer II, Centre for Quantum Computing

The Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is hiring a Software Development Engineer to build AI-native systems that accelerate quantum device research and fabrication. You will work at the intersection of software engineering machine learning and experimental science building workflows and data infrastructure that connect scientists hardware engineers and AI models into a tightly integrated development loop.

Key job responsibilities
- Design and build data lakes and pipelines that unify experimental fabrication and metrology data from heterogeneous sources into a single queryable platform for scientists and engineers

- Develop AI-native workflows that automate the experiment-analysis-recommendation cycle: ingest results run ML models surface insights and propose next steps with minimal human intervention

- Build LLM-powered tools and autonomous agents that allow researchers to query visualize and reason over fabrication and experimental data using natural language

- Partner directly with research scientists process engineers and hardware teams to understand their problems deeply and translate research needs into working software

- Implement ML-driven analysis systems (e.g. automated defect detection yield prediction process optimization) that operate on live fabrication data

- Design and build recommendation engines that evaluate design-of-experiment tradeoffs (cost time performance) and surface actionable suggestions to research teams

- Own the reliability scalability and operational health of the systems you build including monitoring alerting and on-call support

- Contribute to the technical direction of the Device Lifecycle team through design documents architecture reviews and code reviews

About the team
You will be joining the Device Lifecycle software development team within the AWS Center for Quantum Computing. Our team builds the software that enables scaling up quantum computing technologies from fabrication execution systems to AI-powered research tools. We are a small high-impact team where every engineers work directly shapes the pace of quantum device development.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 4 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Knowledge of Machine Learning and LLM fundamentals including transformer architecture training/inference lifecycles and optimization techniques
- Experience in machine learning data mining information retrieval statistics or natural language processing
- Experience with research and investigation skills or equivalent
- Experience in semiconductor fabrication foundry operations or cleanroom environments

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Pasadena - 143700.00 - 194400.00 USD annually