Princial Solutions Architect, AI/ML, National Security Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years experience in the field of AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP and related technologies.
- 5 + years experience developing AI models in real-world environments and integrating AI/ML and other AWS services into large-scale production applications.
- Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above.
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Experience with AWS technologies

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $164,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Amazon Web Services is seeking a Principal Generative AI Learning Solutions Architect to support our Intelligence Community customers in the Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, DC area.

Are you excited to help the Intelligence Community (IC) to leverage generative AI in their missions? Eager to learn from many different enterprise use cases of AWS ML and generative AI? Thrilled to be a key part of Amazon, who has been investing in Machine Learning for decades, pioneering and shaping the world’s AI technology? Come join us!
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are helping the federal government build and use AI on the AWS Cloud. We are AI to large volumes of data and against a wide spectrum of problems.

Generative AI is rapidly growing in importance. We’re seeing more and more amazing AI work being done from simple back office applications to complex mission changing agentic workflows. Given the scale required for developing AI models, the cloud is an ideal place to deploy AI models, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leader in the deployment of AI. We’re looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. Someone who is devoted to helping IC customers understand how AI can make a big difference to their mission.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance. The position further requires that, after start, the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph or commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.


Key job responsibilities
As a Principal AI/ML Solutions Architect (SA), you will be a lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing generative AI solutions that leverage AWS services to automate solutions and drive down costs for customers. You will be a recognized leader for both internal and external customers. As part of the Specialist Solutions Architecture team, you will work closely with the other Specialist SAs to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for AI platforms. You will lead other SAs in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements, and you will develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage AI on AWS. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate AWS AI solutions into customer architectures.

You must have deep technical experience working with technologies related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, or generative AI. A strong statistics, mathematics, computer science, or technology background is preferred, in addition to experience helping customers architect enterprise grade AI solutions. You will be familiar with the ecosystem of software vendors in the AI space as well as be able to operate in Python data science environments. You must have the ability to leverage this knowledge to help AWS customers in their software selection process.

Candidates must have great communication skills and be very technical, with the ability to impress AWS customers at any level, from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers, partners and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation.

If you are someone who enjoys innovating, likes solving hard problems and working with innovative technology, we would love to have you on the team.


About the team
About AWS
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