Amazon
Principal Applied AI Architect, Applied AI & Data Architecture
$183K–$247K
Arlington, VA +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Arlington, VA
Seattle, WA
Irvine, CA
Dallas, TX - Experience
- 10+ years in specific technology domain areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
About the job
Designs and productionizes agentic AI systems for AWS customers while building reusable open-source tools, reference implementations, and technical content.
What you'll do
- Design end-to-end agentic solutions, balancing model selection, orchestration, evaluation, guardrails, latency, and cost.
- Advise customer teams on architecture and AI adoption, and share technical requirements and feedback with internal teams.
- Build reusable AI assets and deliver workshops, sample code, presentations, and white papers.
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 that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent; database design and implementation or equivalent; or experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
Pay
182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore
AI focus
Design and productionize agentic AI systems, including model selection, orchestration, tool and context design, evaluation, guardrails, and latency/cost optimization; build AI accelerators and reference implementations.
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