Amazon
Principal AI Scientist, Telco Tech, AWS Industries
$183K–$284K
Bellevue, WA +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
New York, NY
Dallas, TX
Cupertino, CA - Experience
- 10+ years in specified technology domains.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
About the job
Leads AI research and development for telecommunications networks, delivering scalable AWS solutions and co-developing AI-native networking capabilities with major operators.
What you'll do
- Lead AI model research and development from design and training through evaluation, optimization, and production deployment on AWS.
- Develop network ontologies, knowledge graphs, and AI methods for network data and operations.
- Co-develop AI-native 6G solutions with telecommunications operators and represent AWS in industry forums and standards bodies.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps guiding IT transformations toward cloud computing.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level, through training, workshops, or publications.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, or database design and implementation.
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
Pay
210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually (base salary); 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually (base salary); 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, graph neural networks (GNNs), foundation models, transformer architectures, knowledge graphs
AI focus
Build AI models, network ontologies, and privacy-preserving distributed training approaches for telecommunications network reasoning, optimization, autonomous operations, and AI-native 6G.
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