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# Principal Applied AI Architect, Applied AI & Data Architecture

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $182,800.0 - $247,300.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Application Frameworks, Systems Engineering, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Database Design, Distributed Systems, IT Management, Open Source Technology, Software Engineering, AgentCore, Agentic-AI, Information Technology, Amazon Bedrock, Data Analytics
- **Published:** October 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/9B05AAFE7BD1460EA490CE916087D1A6/job/

## About the Role

* 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
 * 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, * Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
 * Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
 * Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
 * Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
 * Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud

## Description

Do you want to help customers build AI agents that change how work gets done? As a Principal, Solutions Architect in AWS, you will design and productionize agentic systems using services like Amazon Bedrock and AgentCore, contribute to open-source AI accelerators, and help customers adopt AI-native software development practices. Your time splits roughly 50/50 between direct customer engagements and building reusable assets that scale your impact. On the customer side, you will guide teams through hands-on architecture and unblock adoption. On the builder side, you will create reference implementations, open-source tools, and technical content that enable the broader community. This is a global role where you will maintain deep relationships with AI service teams and collaborate with specialists and builder customers across regions to stay current on capabilities and influence product roadmaps., * Design end-to-end agentic solutions for customers, making informed trade-off decisions across model selection, orchestration patterns, tool and context design, evaluation and guardrails, and latency/cost optimization.

 * Serve as a trusted technical advisor by diving into technical details with customer teams, identifying opportunities and risks, and leading discussions that accelerate AI service and platform adoption.
 * Build and contribute to open-source AI accelerators, reference implementations, and reusable frameworks that help customers and the broader community adopt agentic architectures faster.
 * Develop and deliver technical content such as workshops, sample code, presentations, and white papers that share best practices and lessons learned from real-world engagements.
 * Collaborate with internal teams including sales, engineering, and support to translate customer feedback into clear technical requirements, resolve root-cause issues, and close the loop between what customers need and what AWS builds.

A day in the life

You start your morning reviewing a customer's architecture proposal, preparing feedback on their scaling strategy and security posture before a design review call. After the call, you sketch out an updated reference architecture that addresses the constraints discussed. In the afternoon, you collaborate with an engineering team to document a feature request a customer raised, then wrap up by refining a workshop you are building to share best practices with a broader customer audience.