Amazon
Sr. Prototyping Solutions Architect, AWS Specialists and Partner Prototyping Team
$154K–$239K
Santa Clara, CA +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 6+ years in each of the two specified experience areas; no other total-years requirement stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build short-cycle, customer-focused AWS prototypes that demonstrate emerging technologies, validate technical feasibility, and establish a path to production.
What you'll do
- Qualify and scope strategic prototyping use cases with AWS teams, customers, and partners; architect, design, and build working prototypes.
- Create reusable best practices, reference architectures, and patterns, and share customer insights with AWS Service teams.
- Present technical demonstrations and talks to business and technical audiences.
What they ask for
- 6+ years of design, implementation, or consulting experience in applications and infrastructures.
- 6+ years of experience in specific technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
- Experience presenting and speaking with executives, IT, management, and developers.
- Experience architecting or operating solutions built on a cloud service provider; Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Experience presenting to technical and non-technical executive audiences; writing technical articles, speaking at technology conferences, or contributing to open source.
- Experience building prototypes, proofs of concept, or minimum viable products under tight timelines; hands-on depth in emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning, data, IoT and edge, or robotics.
Pay
176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually (base salary); 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary); 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, AI and machine learning, IoT and edge, robotics
AI focus
Build and evaluate prototypes involving physical AI and autonomous robotics, world models and vision-language-action models, autonomous scientific discovery and instrument agents, and agentic developer intelligence such as multi-agent systems and code agents.
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