Principal, Senior, Distinguished Engineer — AWS Applied AI Solutions , AWS Applied AI Solutions

Amazon
Bellevue, WA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-06-17ONSITE

About the job

At AWS Applied AI Solutions, we're revolutionising the future of work and enterprise technology. Our vision is to empower every business to innovate with AI — making intelligent operations effortless and unleashing companies and their employees to focus on what matters most. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to adopt and easy to use.

Responsibilities

• Architect and drive the technical vision for next-generation AI infrastructure and platforms that enable Agentic AI capabilities across our service portfolio

• Design the foundational systems, frameworks, and intelligent agents that make human-AI collaboration intuitive, trustworthy, and productive

• Build highly reliable, secure, and scalable distributed systems that seamlessly scale from small businesses to global enterprises

• Define technical standards and best practices for integrating AI capabilities across diverse domains — from multi-modal communications and geospatial intelligence to IoT and autonomous operations

• Create extensible architectures that support expansion into new business applications, establishing reusable patterns that teams across Amazon can build upon

• Make difficult trade-off decisions and drive awareness of the downstream impact of technical choices

• Align multiple teams to a coherent technical vision and deliver systems that fit well together

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

• 10+ years of experience leading large-scale projects in software development, infrastructure, architecture, compute, or networking

• 8+ years of design, architecture, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications running on cloud

• Technical expertise in designing, architecting, and building complex, large-scale distributed systems

• Experience improving software development lifecycle processes, best practices, operations, and automation

• Experience mentoring and growing engineering communities on complex technical challenges

• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, and agile development

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information clearly to diverse audiences

Preferred

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

• 15+ years of relevant experience

• 5+ years of design, architecture, implementation, or consulting experience with distributed applications on AWS

• 3+ years working directly with enterprise customers to assess needs, identify solutions, and resolve technical disagreements

• Experience with big data systems, analytics, containerised microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture

• Experience shipping business-grade AI solutions and agentic systems

• Hands-on experience building and iterating on AI/ML-driven products, including prototypes through production systems