Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leading the next phase of AI adoption and seeking a hands-on AI Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) to help customers transform AI ambition into production-ready solutions.
As part of the AWS sales organization youll work with customers facing complex AI/ML challenges that require expert-level knowledge. Youll craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures while serving as a trusted advisor throughout their generative AI and agentic AI journey.
Key job responsibilities
Build trusted technical relationships with customers of all sizes serving as their advisor for GenAI/ML and Agentic AI adoption across their cloud journey
Manage technical relationships between AWS and customers providing recommendations on security cost performance reliability and operational efficiency to accelerate AI/ML projects
Act as voice of customer internally sharing feedback and requirements to influence the AWS GenAI/ML and Agentic features roadmap
Design cloud-native architectures that link technology to tangible solutions defining GenAI/ML and Agentic architectural patterns for diverse use cases
Create and share technical content including whitepapers code samples blog posts and reference architectures; evangelize AWS AI capabilities through workshops conferences meetups and online channels
Lead technical deep dives and workshops contributing reusable code reference architectures and technical assets for the broader engineering organization
A day in the life
Your day will be a dynamic blend of technical problem-solving and strategic collaboration. Youll engage with customers across diverse industries diving deep into their unique AI challenges and crafting innovative cloud-native solutions. From architecting complex AI systems to developing reference implementations youll be at the forefront of technological innovation.
About the team
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- 4 years of experience in designing and implementing application and infrastructure solutions
- 3 years of technical customer engagement and resource management experience
- 3 years of production AI system design experience
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms and AI/ML services to build secure AI environments and implement RAG using embeddings vector stores and semantic search.
- Strong communication skills with ability to influence technical and business decision-makers across diverse audiences
- Cloud technology certification (AWS Azure or GCP Solutions Architect or equivalent)
- Advanced degree in computer science mathematics statistics machine learning or related quantitative field
- Experience with LLM optimization techniques (e.g. LoRA/QLoRA Instruction Tuning RLHF) for domain-specific tasks
- Expertise in architecting AI systems for highly regulated or security-sensitive environments (Financial Services Healthcare Public Sector)
- Proven track record of leading complex innovative technology initiatives with measurable business impact
- Hands-on experience with cloud AI/ML services (e.g. AWS Bedrock/SageMaker Azure OpenAI Service/Azure ML Google Vertex AI) for production RAG implementations
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