Principal Engineer, Long Term Planning and Forecasting

LTPF owns the demand forecasts and long-term plans that drive Amazons top-line capacity investments working capital and network topology decisions worldwide. Our outputs are reviewed by Stores and Operations leadership up to the CEO level and they set the terms for billions of dollars in capex. We enable our mission with systems that coordinate inputs across distributed organizations and produce globally optimized plans.

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to own the technical architecture that makes that possible. You will set the engineering direction across unified forecasting coordinated planning system and GenAI agentic insights platform. You will drive tech primitives standardized and auditable outputs and self-service interfaces.



Key job responsibilities
1. Own the technical architecture across systems. Drive simplification and establish the primitives and the migration path for the legacy systems.
2. Set and hold the engineering bar in design reviews across science engineering and product.
3. Drive AI adoption as engineering infrastructure including agentic tooling skills and spec-driven development practices that change how the org builds and make the productivity gains measurable.
4. Partner across supply chain functions operations and Finance to drive system simplification and efficiency.


- 5 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- Experience leading engineering teams as a mentor or tech lead or experience leading the architecture and design (architecture design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience in an operational environment developing fast-prototyping piloting and launching analytic products
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering a related field or equivalent experience
- Experience leading change in multiple site environments and influenceing those that are not direct reports or within your organization

- Experience with forecasting planning optimization or simulation systems in a supply chain retail or financial planning context
- Experience building data platforms where reproducibility lineage and auditability are first-class requirements
- Experience building agentic or LLM-based systems in production and experience driving AI-assisted development practices across an engineering organization
- Experience working directly with scientists and economists as primary collaborators
- Experience partnering with Finance organizations on systems whose outputs feed financial planning and external reporting
- Track record of deprecating legacy systems

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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