Senior Principal Engineer: AI Compute & ML Infra

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC invites applications for Principal Engineer and Senior Principal Engineer roles within AWS Compute and ML Services in the Virginia area. You will own architecture and delivery of critical systems spanning compute platforms, ML infrastructure, and custom silicon, driving design decisions from hardware interfaces to customer APIs with emphasis on latency, security, and reliability.

Leaders will mentor engineers, spearhead cross-team initiatives across AWS, and shape

Qualifications

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience owning technical architecture, end-to-end delivery, and partnering with senior leadership.
• Track record of leading multiple concurrent technical initiatives and driving decisions that stuck.
• Experience influencing across organizational boundaries without positional authority.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture and hands-on delivery of critical systems across compute platforms, ML infrastructure, or custom silicon.
• Drive end-to-end design decisions from hardware interfaces to customer-facing APIs with latency, security, and reliability.
• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning multiple AWS organizations to deliver cohesive systems.
• Author and champion technical vision documents, influence roadmaps, and represent AWS in architectural reviews.
• Make hard architectural calls at the hardware-software boundary with billions of customer-hours impact.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers through reviews and hands-on leadership.
• Establish and raise the operational bar: you build it, you own it, you improve it.

Skills

Technical leadership

System architecture

Cross-team collaboration

End-to-end delivery

Hardware-software co-design

Cloud infrastructure

Mentoring

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC invites applications for Principal Engineer and Senior Principal Engineer roles within AWS Compute and ML Services in the Virginia area. You will own architecture and delivery of critical systems spanning compute platforms, ML infrastructure, and custom silicon, driving design decisions from hardware interfaces to customer APIs with emphasis on latency, security, and reliability.

Leaders will mentor engineers, spearhead cross-team initiatives across AWS, and shape