Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Agentic AI

Agentic AI drives innovation at the forefront of artificial intelligence enabling customers to transform their businesses through cutting-edge AI solutions. We build and deliver the foundational AI services that power the future of cloud computing helping organizations harness the potential of AI to solve their most complex challenges. Join our dynamic team of AI/ML practitioners applied scientists software engineers and solution architects who work backwards from customer needs to create groundbreaking technologies.

Role Overview

We are seeking exceptional Principal Engineers to join the Agentic AI organization at AWS. This requisition represents multiple opportunities across various teams building the next generation of AI agent platforms services and tools. As AI agents proliferate across the industry AWS is at the forefront of this transformation building the technical foundation that will make sophisticated multi-agent workflows accessible to developers these roles youll design build and scale systems that genuinely move the needle for customers leveraging the latest AI-powered development tools to work faster think bigger and ship better. Were looking for Principal Engineers who bring rare technical knowledge a builders instinct and the kind of curiosity that doesnt stop at good enough.

What Youll Do

As a Principal Engineer in Agentic AI you will be a hands-on technical leader tackling the hardest most ambiguous problems in the rapidly evolving Generative AI space. You will:


Deliver high-impact technical projects and architect software systems built to scale leveraging cutting-edge AI-powered development tools to push the boundaries of whats possible.
Build trend-setting AWS services in the Gen AI field solving the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning powered solutions for customers
Deliver strategic technical projects that have significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position
Design and architect large-scale systems that are scalable efficient and fault tolerant as tier zero Amazon services
Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers and drawing from deep technical expertise to guide complex technical decisions
Shape technology product and business in a fast-moving startup environment within a large company
Work across domains including compute databases networking identity and ML science teams

Depending on your background and interests you may work on:

AgentCore Platform: Building comprehensive modular infrastructure for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents securely and at scale including serverless runtime memory identity gateway and observability components
Agent Orchestration: Developing sophisticated multi-agent coordination and workflow orchestration patterns solving intrinsically hard problems in context management state coordination and autonomous system control
Knowledge & Evaluation: Creating robust evaluation frameworks knowledge retrieval systems and augmentation services that power AI-driven solutions with accurate context-aware information
Security & DevOps: Implementing Shift Left Security by building intelligent security agents that perform application security engineering and penetration testing functions preventing insecure code from reaching production
Migration & Modernization: Accelerating enterprise modernization through agentic AI services that mainframe and VMware workloads


Key job responsibilities
Deliver some of our most strategic technical projects and design new software systems at scale

Lead architecture and engineering strategy for critical AI agent platforms and services

Mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues

Work closely with product engineering and science leaders to drive innovation

Set technical direction for platforms critical to accelerating customers agents to production

Balance technical expertise with strong analytical skills to make informed architectural decisions

Thrive in a dynamic environment where operational excellence and customer impact are paramount

About the team
This is a strategic initiative with AWS leadership visibility at the highest levels. Youll have the opportunity to:

Build and launch new AI services from the ground up

Learn state-of-the-art machine learning technology

Work with an exceptional group of product engineering and science leaders

Get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing business

Shape the future of AI while making meaningful impact for customers worldwide

Our teams have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures. We celebrate knowledge-sharing and mentorship with senior members providing one-on-one mentoring and thorough kind code reviews. We care about career growth and assign projects that help develop engineering expertise.

- 10 years of design development engineering experience.
- Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
- Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects driving strategic technical decisions.

- Experience designing building & operating large scale highly available secure cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with AI software systems including Agents.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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. Learn more about our benefits at WA BELLEVUE - 200100.00 - 270600.00 USD annually
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