Amazon
Senior Solutions Architect, AI-Applied Guidance, Well-Architected Solutions Innovation
$154K–$208K
Bellevue, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, WA
Irvine, CA
Dallas, TX - Experience
- 7+ years in specified technology domains; 3+ years of hands-on experience with production ML and/or AI systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
About the job
Sets strategic direction for AWS AI/ML architectural guidance, validating best practices with customers and influencing AWS services and the builder community.
What you'll do
- Define the long-term roadmap for AI/ML guidance aligned with AWS Well-Architected pillars; validate recommendations through prototypes and customer implementations.
- Advise on Generative AI and Agentic AI architectures, and influence AWS service roadmaps through collaboration with service teams.
- Lead guidance automation and publication, external thought leadership, and mentorship of architects.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 7+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics
- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, or advising on Machine Learning and/or AI systems in production environments
- Deep understanding of the end-to-end ML lifecycle, from data preparation through governance
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Agentic AI patterns
- Experience defining or contributing to AWS Well-Architected Guidance or similar enterprise-scale architectural review guidance
Pay
153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Amazon Q, AWS Security services, AWS Trainium/Inferentia, Amazon Kendra, Amazon OpenSearch, CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform
AI focus
Defines architectural guidance for Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, including foundation models, RAG, fine-tuning, agentic workflows, responsible AI, and AI-assisted guidance authoring.
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