Control Stack Manager, Center Quantum Computing

Control Stack Manager, Center for Quantum Computing

The Amazon 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 Control Stack Manager to join our growing software group. You will lead a team of interdisciplinary scientists and software engineers, focused on developing research software and infrastructure to support the development and operation of scalable fault‑tolerant quantum computers.

You will interface directly with our experimental physics and control hardware teams to develop and drive a vision for the experimental quantum computing software‑hardware interface.

Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or legally admitted as a refugee or granted asylum, or be able to obtain a U.S. export license.

• Develop a technical vision for the quantum software‑hardware interface in collaboration with senior engineers.
• Collaborate effectively with science and hardware teams to derive software needs and priorities.
• Own resource allocation and planning activities for your team to meet the needs of internal customers.
• Be comfortable “getting your hands dirty” (i.e. diving deep into architecture, metrics, and implementation).
• Regularly provide technical evaluation and feedback to your reports (via code review, design docs, etc.).
• Drive hiring activities for your team — develop growth plans, source candidates, and design interview loops.
• Coach and empower your employees to become better engineers, scientists, and communicators.

The majority of your time will be spent orchestrating, coaching, and growing the control stack team at the Center for Quantum Computing. This requires collaborating with other science and software teams and working backwards from the needs of our science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science needs and priorities into software project proposals and resource allocations.

Once project proposals have been accepted, you will support and empower your team to deliver these projects on time while maintaining high standards of engineering excellence. Because many high‑level experimental goals have cross‑cutting requirements, you’ll need to stay in sync with partner science and software teams.

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

• 3+ years of science or engineering team management experience.
• Experience managing the full software development lifecycle and implementing software best practices.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  Commercial, academic, or open‑source quantum control systems; RFSoC development platforms + FPGA development (e.g. AMD ZCU
  216); laboratory test and measurement equipment and drivers (e.g. Spectrum Analyzer, VNA).
• Proven track record of collaborating with scientists and/or hardware engineers to develop software.
• Experience sourcing, interviewing, and hiring software engineers & scientists.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience with one or more of the following:
  Control software & techniques for quantum computing; programming language implementation or compiler development; embedded systems & strict timing constraints (e.g. bare metal, RTOS, custom Linux builds); software telemetry systems and standards (e.g. Cloud Watch, Open Telemetry); high‑performance networking technologies (e.g. RDMA, Ulta Ethernet, UALink); and distributed systems (e.g. distributed event streaming).

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees,…