Principal AI Infrastructure Architect for Foundation Models

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 183,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to design cloud architectures for Foundation Model Providers, enabling training, fine‑tuning, and serving of state‑of‑the‑art models at exabyte scale.

You will lead technical discussions with executives, collaborate with EC2, Bedrock and S3 teams, and drive best practices across GPU, networking and distributed training to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient AI infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology domain experience (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences and at C‑level, including training, workshops, publications.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end‑to‑end technology roadmaps toward cloud computing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and foster relationships with model providers, becoming their trusted technical advisor and strategic partner.
• Develop deep knowledge of core foundational services (Compute, Network, Storage) along with ML expertise to build long‑term relationships with customer engineering teams.
• Dive deep to understand the details of model provider’s environment, business goals, and technical requirements for building and deploying foundation models.
• Design and implement advanced cloud architectures that enable model providers to scale their AI research and production workloads efficiently.
• Partner closely with AWS service teams (EC2, Global Networking, EKS, Bedrock, S3) to influence roadmaps and develop custom solutions that meet model provider’s unique requirements.
• Identify patterns and technical solutions that can be broadly applied across the FMP segment to accelerate innovation.
• Lead technical discussions that articulate the business value of AWS platform and services to both technical architects and executive stakeholders.
• Drive technical and architectural best practices for GPU optimization, network throughput, distributed training, and cost efficiency at massive scale.

Skills

Cloud computing

CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

GPU optimization

Kubernetes

Docker

Executive communication

Technical leadership

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Containers ecosystem

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Principal Solutions Architect to design cloud architectures for Foundation Model Providers, enabling training, fine‑tuning, and serving of state‑of‑the‑art models at exabyte scale.

You will lead technical discussions with executives, collaborate with EC2, Bedrock and S3 teams, and drive best practices across GPU, networking and distributed training to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient AI infrastructure.