Sr. Advanced Compute Specialist SA - National Security, National Security Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

About the Role

Amazon Web Services is seeking an Advanced Computing Solutions Architect to support our Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Energy (DoE), and broader U.S. Federal Government customers. This role sits at the forefront of next-generation compute, from high performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing to large-scale analytics, modeling, and simulation.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing solutions that leverage AWS services to enable and optimize advanced computing workloads and their key performance indicators
• Work across multiple domains including HPC, quantum computing (Amazon Braket), custom silicon (AWS Graviton, AWS Trainium, AWS Inferentia), and high-performance networking
• Work closely with other Specialist Solutions Architects to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for advanced computing
• Interact with other Solutions Architects in the field, providing guidance on their customer engagements
• Develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage advanced computing on AWS
• Create field enablement materials for the broader Solutions Architect population to help them understand how to integrate AWS advanced computing solutions into customer architectures
• Work directly with senior engineers at customers, partners and AWS service teams, influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of working with Advanced Compute technologies including, but not limited to: Accelerated Compute, High Performance Compute, and/or Quantum Computing
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Must be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph
• Must opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Understanding of deep learning training and inference workloads and requirements for high performance compute, network and storage
• Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required, provided you have experience building large scale solutions

Skills and Background

• Deep technical experience working with technologies related to advanced computing, such as high-speed I/O (storage, networking), processing (including GPU and custom accelerators), quantum computing frameworks, and code customization to exploit underlying hardware
• Strong engineering, physics, computer science, or mathematics background preferred
• Experience helping customers architect enterprise grade solutions
• Familiarity with the ecosystem of software and hardware vendors in the advanced computing space, including HPC and quantum
• Ability to leverage this knowledge to help AWS customers in their technology selection process
• Great communication skills with the ability to impress AWS customers at any level, from executive to developer

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)

Pay

Base salary range: $153,600.00 - $207,800.00 USD annually (Arlington, VA and Herndon, VA locations). Final compensation determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

About the Team

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