Senior Solutions Developer, Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE)

About the role

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. As a prototype developer, you will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will 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, as well as domains such as Agentic, AI/ML, AR/VR/Spatial, IoT and Serverless. Most prototypes explore the art of the possible with Generative AI. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role. In this role, it's imperative that you're self-guided and disciplined in managing your time to ensure success.

Key job 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

Qualities we are 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
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, good communication and being hands-on — you will often be the lead technical person in the room and 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 — at AWS, we have a credo of "Work hard. Have fun. Make history". You will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be 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

What we offer

• Endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources to help you develop into a better-rounded professional
• Work-life harmony with flexibility as part of our working culture
• A team dedicated to supporting new members with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, celebrating knowledge sharing and mentorship
• Career growth with projects assigned 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
• Inclusive culture with employee-led affinity groups, ongoing events and learning experiences including Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences
• 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

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 package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

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