Senior Principal Engineer - AI Compute & ML Infra Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks a Principal/ Senior Principal Engineer to own and deliver critical AWS Compute and ML Services architectures. You will lead cross-team initiatives, set technical direction, and ensure secure, high-performance systems at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in system design, technical leadership, and the ability to mentor engineers while delivering on ambitious multi-year projects that impact billions of customer hours.

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, and silicon integration.
• Drive end-to-end system design decisions across the full stack, prioritizing latency, security, and reliability.
• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning multiple AWS organizations to deliver cohesive systems.
• Author and champion technical vision documents, influence product roadmaps, and represent AWS in architectural reviews.
• Make hard architectural calls at the hardware-software boundary with large-scale impact.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers, raising the technical bar through reviews and leadership.
• Establish and raise the operational bar: you build it, you own it, you improve it.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture

System design

End-to-end delivery

Mentoring

Security

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks a Principal/ Senior Principal Engineer to own and deliver critical AWS Compute and ML Services architectures. You will lead cross-team initiatives, set technical direction, and ensure secure, high-performance systems at scale.

The role requires deep expertise in system design, technical leadership, and the ability to mentor engineers while delivering on ambitious multi-year projects that impact billions of customer hours.