Hewlett Packard Labs - Sr Principal Software Designer - Remote Eligible

Hewlett Packard Labs - Sr Principal Software Designer

In the HPE Quantum and Emergent Machine Intelligence Teams at Hewlett Packard Labs, we take a first principles approach to pushing the boundaries of what is possible with HPC, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing. As a Sr Principal Software Engineer, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to develop groundbreaking distributed hybrid quantum-classical computing infrastructures. You will be crafting a full-stack software framework for quantum-HPC integration at multiple layers, implementing cutting-edge distributed quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and utility-scale applications within state-of-the-art HPC environments. As a Sr Principal, you will lead technical development as you work closely and collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, researchers, and product managers. Together, our goal is to build scalable, efficient, and innovative systems for the utility-scale distributed quantum computers that are poised to shape the future of high-performance computing.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Quantum Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or related fields.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Ability to lead a team of software engineers: defining technical direction and development milestones, managing technical risks, and driving timely delivery in collaboration with project managers and stakeholders.
• Advanced programming skills in C/C++, Python, and other scripting languages.
• Ability to work with HPC systems, optimizing existing software frameworks, and developing new applications
• A deep understanding of distributed systems, multi-node/multi-GPU workload design, and low-level memory and performance optimizations
• Expertise with MPI and/or OpenSHMEM
• Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools for high-performance and massively parallelizable applications
• Experience conducting performance benchmarking and triage on large-scale HPC clusters.
• Knowledge on general HPC components like compute, interconnects, memory, and storage.
• Experience with job scheduling workloads and orchestration tools such as Slurm and/or PBS, Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a creative, iterative mindset to tackle complex problems.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and convey technical details to non-technical partners

Desired Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Quantum Engineering, AI, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or related fields.
• Experience with programming language design
• Experience with library API design
• Experience managing of open-source projects
• Strong consensus-building skills
• Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms and generative AI.
• Solid understanding of quantum computing algorithms, computational physics, quantum many-body systems, quantum chemistry, material science, combinatorial optimization, or statistical physics.
• Experience with quantum computing SDKs (e.g., Qiskit, CUDA-Q, TensorFlow Quantum, Pennylane)
• Experience working with AI frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Strong track record of sharing findings with the broader scientific community, e.g., publishing research papers in top-tier journals and conferences

Additional Skills:

Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.