The AWS Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is looking to hire a Systems Development Engineer to develop and maintain high performance computing (HPC) systems on AWS that CQC scientists and engineers use for quantum computing hardware design and simulation. These systems enable running large-scale HPC applications with MPI- and OpenMP-based parallelism on EC2 instances, as well as provide graphical environments to run computer-aided engineering applications.

Key job responsibilities
- Administer cloud-based HPC environments, including automating the deployment and maintenance of clusters, automating application testing, provisioning user accounts, managing and updating operating systems and software environments, building and deploying containers, debugging problems, and securing these systems.
- Support computer-aided engineering end users by improving the robustness and performance of the HPC environment. Collaborate with partner teams and software developers to increase availability across instance types, manage data spread across clusters in different regions, and improve integration with other services.

- Anticipate computational resource needs within, and expand the capabilities of, the CQC to support developing a scalable fault-tolerant quantum computer. Improvements to computational infrastructure will allow the CQC to expand physical modeling capabilities used within design, utilizing the scalable compute power of AWS to accelerate the design cycle.

About the team
Utility Computing (UC)
AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.

Diverse Experiences
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System Development Engineer - Quantum Engineering, AWS CQC