Principal GenAI Specialist SA

Amazon
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA / New York, New York, USA / Denver, Colorado, USA2026-03-24ONSITE

About the job

As an AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect (SA), you will serve as a Subject Matter Expert for designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI/ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI solutions that leverage AWS services. Working at the intersection of innovation and enterprise requirements, you'll architect production-grade solutions that are reliable, well-governed, and compliant with industry standards. Your expertise will be important in helping organizations build responsible AI practices, from traditional ML to advanced Generative AI and Agentic AI systems, while defining robust governance frameworks and secure AI pipelines that scale efficiently.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain technical trusted advisor relationships with influential technical decision-makers to drive successful adoption and deployment of AWS services, with particular focus on enterprise-grade AI/ML architectures, Generative AI solutions, and agentic systems.

Architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions leveraging AWS's comprehensive AI stack, from traditional ML services to leading Generative AI offerings. Work closely with customers to understand their business needs and design solutions that optimize both performance and cost while ensuring robust governance and responsible AI practices.

Serve as a thought leader in the AI/ML space by developing compelling technical content and practical implementations showcasing modern AI architectures. Create reference architectures, workshops, and demos that highlight integration patterns for LLMs, RAG systems, autonomous agents, and GenAIOps best practices. Share insights through AWS Blogs, public speaking events, and technical communities.

Build and nurture an internal AWS community of AI/ML experts, focusing on knowledge-sharing across traditional ML, Generative AI, and Agentic AI domains. Establish best practices for emerging technologies and create enablement materials for the broader AWS technical community.

Collaborate across AWS teams to accelerate customer success with AI/ML implementations. Work with business development, professional services, and support teams to ensure effective adoption of AWS AI services, from proof-of-concept to production deployment.

Act as a technical liaison between customers and AWS engineering teams, ensuring successful implementation of AI solutions while maintaining alignment with AWS's well-architected framework and AI best practices.

Qualifications

Minimum

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

Preferred

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