Principal and Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Compute and ML Services

What you'll do

• Own architecture and hands-on delivery of critical systems, making end-to-end decisions across hardware interfaces and customer APIs.
• Lead cross-organization initiatives, shape technical vision and roadmaps, and mentor senior engineers.
• At Senior Principal level, set multi-year direction and drive architectural transformations across AWS Compute and ML Services.

What they ask for

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience owning technical architecture and end-to-end delivery, and partnering with senior leadership.
• Track record of leading multiple concurrent technical initiatives and driving lasting decisions.
• Experience influencing across organizational boundaries without positional authority.

Nice to have

• 15–25+ years of deep hands-on technical expertise in complex distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale systems programming, virtualization, operating systems, performance engineering, or hardware-software co-design.

Pay

230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually (base salary), Cupertino; 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually (base salary), Santa Clara; 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually (base salary), New York; 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary), Arlington; 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary), Herndon; 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary), Seattle

Tools

EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud), SageMaker, Bedrock, PCI

AI focus

Architects and leads AI/ML infrastructure, including platforms for generative AI at scale, AI model marketplaces, and infrastructure for large training and inference workloads.