Senior Solutions Developer, Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE)

About the role

Do you have a builder's mentality where "show me" means more than "tell me"? Are you passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures and platforms, and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and validate the technical feasibility of solutions? As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers on a specific use case to determine desired outcomes, define a scope and design and implement it (code, CDK, docs) with a small team of developers in 4-6 weeks
• Identify opportunities to scale your impact through internal and external facing initiatives
• Mentor others
• Partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS
• Help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains across a range of industry verticals like automotive, energy, health care, telco, manufacturing, and media and entertainment
• Help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as Agentic, AI/ML, AR/VR/Spatial, IoT and Serverless, with most prototypes exploring the art of the possible with Generative AI

What we're looking for

• Passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers which are primarily large enterprises
• Past experience working as a developer or hands-on solutions architect
• Enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones
• Regularly take part in deep-dive education and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS
• Combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability (comfortable on the white-board and also on the keyboard)
• Engage often in early stages of customer use-cases and also in competitive situations
• Deal with ambiguity, good communication, and being hands-on — often the lead technical person in the room collaborating with other senior leaders from technical and business domains
• Appetite and initiative to learn new topics and experiment, covering domains such as AI/ML, agentic design, serverless, and IoT in an enterprise context
• Be great fun to work with — dynamic and creative, willing to take on complex challenges and make a big impact

Basic qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
• Design, building, deploying and operating agentic solutions using multi-agent orchestration

Pay

• USA, CA, San Francisco: $176,600.00 - $239,000.00 USD annually
• USA, IL, Chicago: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York: $169,000.00 - $228,600.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Austin: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, TX, Dallas: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Herndon: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually

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.

Benefits

• 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
• Parental leave

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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 (gender 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. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future. Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we're building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

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.

A day in the life

While on a customer prototype engagement, you will work collaboratively with other developers, Customer Success Manager and specialists to deliver results. The small team working on the prototype will change from project to project based on availability, specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members come from across the US and EMEA. Larger team meetings occur periodically to share knowledge and get updates on goals, etc.

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