Lab Software Engineer, Control & Calibration, AWS Center Quantum Computing

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 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 hiring a Lab Software Engineer to join our growing software team. The role works closely with experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing, calibrating, and operating novel quantum devices.

The ideal candidate translates high‑level science requirements into software implementations (e.g. CDK scripts, telemetry systems, instrument servers, data visualizations) that are performant, scalable, and secure. This position emphasizes ensuring the availability and consistency of laboratory software infrastructure that supports experimental physics efforts at AWS Center for Quantum Computing.

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• Develop and integrate telemetry systems for real‑time observability and monitoring of laboratory software and hardware.
• Ensure availability and consistency of server‑level and instrument‑level logs, metrics, and traces.
• Partner with science teams to build intuitive and compact visualizations from observability data.
• Leverage infrastructure‑as‑code to continuously deploy improvements to laboratory software systems.
• Empower others to contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

The majority of time is spent on projects that extend the functional capabilities or performance of our internal research software stack. You work backwards from science staff needs within the experimental roadmap, translate requirements into design proposals, drive implementation, and coordinate with stakeholders for smooth rollout. Many high‑level experimental goals cut across teams, requiring collaboration with engineers and scientists.

You will be part of the software team at AWS Center for Quantum Computing, comprising scientists and software engineers building scalable software for quantum computing technologies.

• 2+ years of professional software development experience (non‑internship).
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience for new and existing systems.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• 2+ years of development/scripting experience with Python/Java/Bash/Perl.
• Experience with full‑stack web development (client‑server architectures, databases).
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Open Telemetry, Grafana.
• Experience using infrastructure‑as‑code to design and deploy cloud services.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment,…