Principal Design Technologist – AI-Driven SSOG Prototyping

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Principal Design Technologist to serve as the technical advisor on innovation for AWS SSOG. You will judge novel interaction models, push agentic design frontiers, and turn breakthroughs into production Rhythm components across multiple products.

You will work at a staff/principal level, prototyping high‑fidelity, production‑ready experiences, and defining patterns that raise the technical bar for the entire design organization.

Qualifications

• A demonstrable portfolio of shipped, production‑grade interfaces for complex, data‑dense technical products.
• Expert front‑end engineering ability: production code in React/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and collaboration with engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining design‑system components at scale, architecture and accessibility.
• Experience translating novel interaction concepts into technically validated, shippable patterns.
• Experience operating at Staff/Principal level (or equivalent) as a design technologist or design engineer at a top tech company.
• A track record of influence as a technical advisor or force multiplier across teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Director of Design's technical advisor on innovation: judge which novel interaction models are worth betting on and chart the path to realization.
• Push the frontier of agentic interaction design with high‑fidelity prototypes to prove out ideas that haven’t shipped yet.
• Invent patterns and reusable components; set the technical standard for state of the art across SSOG.
• Turn breakthrough prototypes into production‑ready Rhythm components on AWS Core to scale validated patterns across products.
• Build the connective tissue of the innovation flywheel: tooling and systems to sense, synthesize, and scale emerging interaction patterns quickly.
• De‑risk bold bets by stress‑testing feasibility early so the org can commit to ambitious ideas with confidence.
• Raise the innovation bar through prototypes, patterns, and pairing to make the team braver and more technically capable.

Skills

Shipped interfaces

React/TypeScript

Design systems

Staff/Principal level experience

Technical advisor

Prototype to production

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Principal Design Technologist to serve as the technical advisor on innovation for AWS SSOG. You will judge novel interaction models, push agentic design frontiers, and turn breakthroughs into production Rhythm components across multiple products.

You will work at a staff/principal level, prototyping high‑fidelity, production‑ready experiences, and defining patterns that raise the technical bar for the entire design organization.