AWS' Quantum General Manager Joins Google

The general manager of quantum technologies at Amazon Web Services Simone Severini has left for Google after spending more than six years at the cloud giant, which is developing its own quantum computers along with offering other companies' systems on its Braket service. He is also a professor of physics of information at UCL.

"Excited to share that I'm starting a new chapter as Distinguished Engineer at Google, based in the Bay Area," Severini said on LinkedIn. "Looking forward to exploring new challenges, working with the talented teams here, and finding out whether there's life beyond quantum after all."

Severini told DCD that, at Google, he is "looking to contribute wherever my background - in connecting people with different expertise across academia and industry - can be most useful. It’s a chance to explore new directions, still broadly aligned with my interest in computing and its role in discovery."

He added: “After a wonderful journey building AWS’s quantum effort, I felt I had accomplished my mission as a founder.”