Amazon
FPGA Engineer, MQS Center for Quantum Computing
$144K–$194K
Pasadena, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 3+ years of industry FPGA development; 2+ years developing embedded software in C, C++, or Rust.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and integrate FPGA-based quantum control hardware and embedded software, improving platform performance and meeting experimental requirements for quantum computing.
What you'll do
- Refine hardware/software requirements and propose control-platform architecture updates.
- Implement RTL subsystems and embedded software, and verify designs in simulation and real-world conditions.
- Integrate features with the Python-based experimental software stack and coordinate rollouts.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 3+ years of industry experience with FPGA development.
- Experience with a scripting language and 2+ years developing embedded software in C, C++, or Rust.
- Experience with hardware bring-up/debugging and standard communication interfaces (USB, PCIe, Ethernet).
Nice to have
- M.Sc. degree, or equivalent, in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or Computer Science.
- Experience with soft core RISC-V implementation, Xilinx SoC platforms, high-level synthesis tools, RTOS applications, device drivers/kernel development, high-performance networking, low-latency distributed computation, or Linux kernel internals.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, C++, Rust, Python, bash, TCL
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