High Performance Computing HPC Specialist SA - National Security National Security Data and AIML Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services is seeking a High Performance Computing (HPC) Solutions Architect to support our Intelligence Community customers in the Maryland Northern Virginia and Washington DC area. This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance with polygraph.

Are you excited to help the Intelligence Community (IC) leverage performant networks and computing nodes to solve the most important workloads in analytics modeling simulation and artificial intelligence Thrilled to be a key part of Amazon who has been investing in agile and elastics compute for decades pioneering and shaping the worlds technology Come join us!


Key job responsibilities
HPC is growing in importance as these systems are necessary for the explosion importance of ML and AI. Were seeing more and more amazing work being done from autonomous vehicles and imagery analysis to financial trading and shipping logistics. Given the scale required for HPC the cloud is an ideal place to deploy workloads and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leader. Were looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. Someone who is devoted to helping IC customers understand how HPC can make a big difference to their mission.

As a HPC Solutions Architect (SA) you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing solutions that leverage AWS services enable and optimize workload key performance indicators. As part of the Specialist Solutions Architecture team you will work closely with the other Specialist SAs to enable largescale customer use cases and drive the adoption of AWS for HPC. You will interact with other SAs in the field providing guidance on their customer engagements and you will develop white papers blogs reference implementations and presentations to enable customers and partners to fully leverage HPC on AWS. You will also create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate AWS solutions into customer architectures.

You must have deep technical experience working with technologies related to HPC such as highspeed I/O (storage networking) processing (including GPU accelerators) and code customization to exploit underlying hardware. A strong engineering physics computer science or mathematics background is preferred in addition to experience helping customers architect enterprise grade solutions. You will be familiar with the ecosystem of software and hardware vendors in the HPC space. You must have the ability to leverage this knowledge to help AWS customers in their software selection process.

Candidates must have great communication skills and be very technical with the ability to impress AWS customers at any level from executive to developer. Previous experience with AWS is desired but not required provided you have experience building large scale solutions. You will get the opportunity to work directly with senior engineers at customers partners and AWS service teams influencing their roadmaps and driving innovation.

If you are someone who enjoys innovating likes solving hard problems and working on innovative technology we would love to have you on the team.

This position requires that the candidate selected must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

About the team
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Bachelors degree
3 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
Current active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Experience working with end user or developer communities
5 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
Experience in a technical role within a sales organization
Understanding of deep learning training and inference workloads and requirements for high performance compute network and storage
5 years building or optimizing computational applications for large scale HPC systems (e.g. physics based simulations) to take advantage of high performance networking (e.g. Amazon EFA Infiniband RoCE) distributed parallel filesystems (e.g. Lustre BeeGFS GPFS) and accelerators (e.g. GPUs customsilicon)

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.