Principal Design Technologist: AI-Driven SSOG Prototypes

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 202,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in the United States is seeking a Principal Design Technologist to serve as the technical advisor for AWS SSOG, shaping next‑gen interaction models with high‑fidelity prototypes and production‑ready Rhythm components.

You will lead hands‑on prototyping, partner with Delight Lab and design‑system engineers, and set a technical standard across six products, moving ideas from research to production.

Qualifications

• Shipped, production-grade interfaces for complex, data-dense products (observability, security, developer tools).
• Expert front-end engineering: high-fidelity prototypes, production code in React/TypeScript, collaborating as a peer in the codebase.
• Experience building/designing system components at scale, accessible and cross-team adoption.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Director of Design's technical advisor on innovation and chart paths for new models.
• Prototyping advanced interaction ideas through high-fidelity prototypes.
• Invent new interaction patterns and reusable components; set technical standards across SSOG.
• Turn prototypes into production Rhythm components on AWS Core to scale across products.
• Build tooling and systems to sense, synthesize, and scale interaction patterns.

Skills

Shipped interfaces

Front-end dev

Design-system experience

Interaction patterns

Staff/Principal experience

Technical advisory track record

Tools

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Job description

Amazon Inc. in the United States is seeking a Principal Design Technologist to serve as the technical advisor for AWS SSOG, shaping next‑gen interaction models with high‑fidelity prototypes and production‑ready Rhythm components.

You will lead hands‑on prototyping, partner with Delight Lab and design‑system engineers, and set a technical standard across six products, moving ideas from research to production.