Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)