Sr. Principal Tech Lead, AWS Transform

Amazon
Santa Clara, CA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-06-18ONSITE

About the job

We are looking for a Senior Principal Tech Lead Manager for AWS Transform, a frontier agent for migration and modernization. You will help architect and drive the technical evolution of autonomous AI agent systems that modernize mission-critical enterprise infrastructure and very large codebases. We help our customers transition to a future of continuous modernization and help them unlock the full potential of GenAI. We do this through the first-of-its-kind multi-agent, multi-user, multi-domain system that orchestrates workflows across multiple teams within an enterprise.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a nimble team of AI scientists, fostering a culture of rapid experimentation and research excellence while keeping the team tightly aligned to product impact; set the technical vision for building state-of-the-art learning systems with knowledge graphs, reasoning, and validation capabilities that operate beyond foundational model boundaries; translate that vision into concrete research and engineering milestones for your team; balance innovation with operational excellence, mentoring senior scientists and creating an environment where a small, high-caliber group can move fast and punch above its weight.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD, or Master's degree in CS, CE, ML or related field experience; Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language; Experience in any of the following areas: AI (NLP or multi-modality models), Deep Learning, LLM model training, graph learning, software engineering.

Preferred

15+ years of relevant, broad research experience after PhD degree or equivalent; First author publications at Tier-1 ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, CVPR.