Prototype Architect: Physical AI & Generative AI

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Prototyping Architect to build production-ready Physical AI prototypes for customers, combining Generative AI, robotics, and simulation with digital twins and synthetic data pipelines. You’ll write code, design simulations, and shape architectures for agentic AI and AI-driven workflows.

Based in Seattle area, the role requires travel ~25% and close collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver fast, tangible prototypes that demonstrate what’s

Qualifications

• 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Intellectual curiosity to keep technical skills current and stay abreast of industry trends and applications.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• BS level technical degree; Computer Science or Mathematics preferred.
• Excellent verbal skills and ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build working Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Physical AI prototypes directly with customers using AWS AI services and cloud-native architectures.
• Design and build Physical AI prototypes spanning digital twin environments, discrete event simulation, robotic policy training, and synthetic data generation.
• Leverage AI-driven development tools to accelerate prototype development, implementing prompt patterns, function calling, agent orchestration, and simulation pipeline automation.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customers on LLM selection, agent design, Physical AI architecture, and AI adoption strategy.
• Collaborate with Technical Program Managers, Design Technologists, and Prototyping Architects to deliver engagements on time with lasting impact.
• Create and share reusable patterns and thought leadership through simulation frameworks, code libraries, whitepapers, blogs, and conference talks.
• Work across the AWS ecosystem to distill customer needs and influence product features and roadmaps for Physical AI and simulation workloads.

Skills

Design and implementation experience

Strong communication skills

Full-stack development across multiple

Customer-facing advisory

Ability to learn quickly

Education

BS in Computer Science or Mathematics

Tools

AWS Bedrock

SageMaker

IoT TwinMaker

IoT SiteWise

NVIDIA Omniverse

Isaac Sim

World Foundation Models tools

Cursor

Kiro

Q Developer

Claude Code

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Prototyping Architect to build production-ready Physical AI prototypes for customers, combining Generative AI, robotics, and simulation with digital twins and synthetic data pipelines. You’ll write code, design simulations, and shape architectures for agentic AI and AI-driven workflows.

Based in Seattle area, the role requires travel ~25% and close collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver fast, tangible prototypes that demonstrate what’s