Amazon
Principal Technical Account Manager, ES - NAMER - US-Frontier AI
$210K–$284K
San Francisco, CA · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of distributed applications experience and 7+ years of technical engineering experience; the posting also states a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related discipline or 7+ years of related work experience. Preferred: 4+ years in AI/ML, distributed computing, or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree; also listed as a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline or 7+ years of related work experience.
About the job
Provides strategic technical guidance to enterprise customers implementing, operating, and optimizing AWS AI/ML and HPC infrastructure, especially distributed model training and inference.
What you'll do
- Lead technical engagements and performance optimization for distributed AI/ML workloads on GPU and Trainium clusters.
- Guide customers in designing and validating production-grade training, inference, storage, scheduling, and MLOps solutions.
- Coordinate with AWS engineers and service teams to resolve issues, improve reliability and capacity, and advise customer leaders.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree; the posting also accepts a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Math, or related discipline or 7+ years of related work experience.
- 7+ years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience.
- 7+ years of technical engineering experience.
Nice to have
- 4+ years of experience in AI/ML, distributed computing, or GPU-accelerated infrastructure.
- Experience in a 24x7 operational services or support environment, or as a technical lead in an internal enterprise or external customer-facing environment.
Pay
210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS Parallel Computing Service (PCS), AWS ParallelCluster, PyTorch FSDP, DeepSpeed, SageMaker HyperPod, Amazon FSx for Lustre, AWS Step Functions, AWS Batch
AI focus
Supports frontier AI/ML customers with distributed model training and inference, GPU/Trainium infrastructure, HPC-to-AI solutions, and production AI/ML workloads.
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