Principal Solutions Architect, Foundation Model Providers

About the role

As a Principal Solutions Architect supporting Foundation Model Providers (FMP) on AWS, you will tackle some of the most challenging and exciting problems in cloud computing today. Model provider's compute footprint represents one of the most demanding workloads on the AWS platform, pushing the boundaries of what's possible with networking, GPU infrastructure, storage, container orchestration, and distributed computing at extraordinary scale.

In this role, you'll design cloud architectures that enable model providers to train, fine-tune, and serve state-of-the-art generative AI models. You'll help solve technical challenges that few organizations in the world face - exabyte-scale data, millions of interconnected GPUs, complex networking topologies, and custom hardware acceleration requirements that define the leading edge of AI infrastructure.

You will help them solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market and building elastic, scalable, cost optimized applications. You will engage with product owners and service teams to set the strategy for AWS services.

For this role, we are looking for folks who have technical breadth complimented by technical depth in one or two areas, business aptitude, and the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions, articulating the business value of the AWS platform and services.

Key job responsibilities

• Maintain and foster relationships with model providers, becoming their trusted technical advisor and strategic partner
• Develop deep knowledge of core foundational services (Compute, Network, Storage) along with ML expertise to build long-term relationships with customer engineering teams
• Dive deep to understand the details of model provider's environment, business goals, and technical requirements for building and deploying foundation models
• Design and implement advanced cloud architectures that enable model providers to scale their AI research and production workloads efficiently
• Partner closely with AWS service teams (EC2, Global Networking, EKS, Bedrock, S3) to influence roadmaps and develop custom solutions that meet model provider's unique requirements
• Identify patterns and technical solutions that can be broadly applied across the FMP segment to accelerate innovation
• Lead technical discussions that articulate the business value of AWS platform and services to both technical architects and executive stakeholders
• Drive technical and architectural best practices for GPU optimization, network throughput, distributed training, and cost efficiency at massive scale

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management 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 with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience operating highly available, distributed systems of data extraction, ingestion, and processing of large data sets
• Experience with CUDA kernels or ML/low-level kernels, or experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution
• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem
• Knowledge of foundation model architectures, training approaches, and serving infrastructure

Additional information

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Pay and benefits

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually