Senior AI Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leading the next phase of AI adoption and is seeking a hands-on AI Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA). AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep Basic qualifications: - 7+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience - 5+ years of management of technical, enterprise customer facing resources or equivalent experience - 5+ years of design/implementation of production AI systems Preferred: - Hands-on experience with AWS ecosystems (including Bedrock, AgentCore, and SageMaker) to set up secure, private-network AI environments, and practical experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation using embeddings, vector stores, and semantic search optimization. - Able to effectively communicate across an increasing diversity of audiences internally and externally - Ability to influence customer and internal business decision makers as a technical thought leader - Cloud Technology Certification - Experience leading and influencing your team or organization, or experience writing low level drivers - Experience selling nascent products and services Ability to drive solutions to difficult problems - Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field, or PhD - Proven ability to lead projects with complex challenges with extensible, operationally excellent, cost optimized, and aligned solutions outcomes - Experience in running & fine-tuning Large and Small Language Models using advanced techniques like LoRA/QLoRA, Instruction Tuning, and RLHF to optimize for specific domain tasks. - Expertise in architecting AI systems within highly regulated or security-sensitive environments (e.g., Financial Services, Healthcare, Public Sector). Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.