Research DevOps Engineer, Software, Center Quantum Computing

Research Dev Ops Engineer, Software, Center for Quantum Computing

Job  | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Overview

The 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 looking to hire a Research Dev Ops Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental and theoretical physics teams to enable their work characterizing, calibrating, and operating novel quantum devices.

The ideal candidate will translate high‑level science requirements into Dev Ops deliverables (CI/CD scripts, hybrid IaC setups, standardized development environments, artifact repositories, etc.) that are performant, scalable, and secure. This role emphasizes accelerating the research software development lifecycle at CQC through automation, standardization, and managing hybrid (cloud + physical lab) infrastructure.

• Design and maintain standardized, reproducible development environments for research scientists.
• Own dependency, build, and release management across interdependent research software projects.
• Develop and streamline CI/CD pipelines for low‑overhead automated testing and rapid deployment.
• Manage hybrid infrastructure spanning cloud services and on‑prem physical hardware.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (e.g., Docker, AWS CDK).
• Maintain Amazon’s high security bar without slowing down the pace of internal development.
• Implement best practices for observability and monitoring to enable rapid debugging and high service uptime.
• Empower others to contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation.

The majority of your time will be spent on projects that accelerate the development of our internal research software stack. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals, balance implementation complexity against time‑to‑delivery, drive implementation, and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure smooth roll‑out. Many high‑level experimental goals have cross‑cutting requirements, so you’ll often work closely with other engineers or scientists on the team.

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

• 3+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 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.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code to design and deploy cloud services.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance).

• Experience working with scientists in a research environment.
• Experience with Dev Sec Ops  features in Git Lab Ultimate.
• Experience setting up standardized, reproducible Python environments.
• Experience with networking and network security fundamentals.

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

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

USA, CA, Pasadena - $ - $ USD annually.

February 28, 2026 (Updated about 1 hour ago)