Senior Solutions Developer, Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking an experienced prototype developer for the Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team. You will work with customers and AWS teams to craft prototypes across domains like AI/ML, IoT, and serverless, delivering rapid iterations and business value.

You will collaborate with senior leaders, mentors, and other engineers to ensure high-quality prototypes, learn new technologies, and drive adoption of AWS solutions in enterprise environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, infrastructure.
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in software or Internet industries.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers to determine outcomes, define scope, and design and implement prototypes with a small team in 4–6 weeks.
• Identify opportunities to scale impact through internal and external facing initiatives.
• Mentor others.

Skills

Cloud computing

Software development

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Data & analytics

Job description

Description

Do you have a builder’s mentality where “show me” means more than “tell me”? Are you passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies? Are you adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches and the validate the technical feasibility of solutions?

As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

As a prototype developer, you will partner with customers and other AWS teams to craft solutions that address customer use cases and accelerate the adoption of AWS. You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains across a range of industry verticals like automotive, energy, health care, telco, manufacturing and media and entertainment. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role. In this role, it’s imperative that you’re self‑guided and disciplined in managing your time to ensure success.

You will help shape and build prototypes covering a spread of domains such as Agentic, AI/ML, AR/VR/Spatial, IoT and Serverless. Most prototypes explore the art of the possible with Generative AI. The ability to learn new technology and develop solutions that meet a high-quality bar and convey business value is critical to the role.

Here Are Some Qualities We Are Looking For

• Have a passion for educating, training, designing, and building cloud solutions for a diverse and challenging set of customers which are primarily large enterprises.
• The ideal candidate will have past experience working as a developer or hands‑on solutions architect. You will enjoy keeping your existing technical skills honed and developing new ones. You will regularly take part in deep‑dive education and design exercises to create world‑class solutions built on AWS.
• As a technical leader, you combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability (i.e. comfortable on the white‑board and also on the keyboard).
• You will engage often in early stages of customer use‑cases and also in competitive situations. Being able to deal with ambiguity, good communication and being hands‑on are important qualities - you will often be the lead technical person in the room and you will be collaborating with other senior leaders from technical and business domains.
• Push the technical bar. You will have appetite and take the initiative to learn new topics and experiment, covering domains such as AI/ML, agentic design, serverless and IoT in an enterprise context.
• Be great fun to work with. At AWS, we have a credo of “Work hard. Have fun. Make history”. In this role, you will love what you do, and instinctively know how to make work fun. You will be dynamic and creative, willing to take on complex challenges and make a big impact.

Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better‑rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Key job responsibilities

Engage with customers on a specific use case to determine desired outcomes, define a scope and design and implement it (code, CDK, docs) with a small team of developers in 4-6 weeks

Identify opportunities to scale your impact through internal and external facing initiatives

Mentor others

A day in the life

While on a customer prototype engagement, you will work collaboratively with other developers, Customer Success Manager and specialists to deliver results. The small team working on the prototype will change from project to project based on availability, specialized skills required and career growth interests. Team members come from across the US and EMEA. Larger team meetings occur periodically to share knowledge and get updates on goals, etc.

Inclusive Team Culture

Mentorship & Career Growth

Work/Life Balance

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge‑sharing, mentorship and other career‑advancing resources here to help you develop into a better‑rounded professional.

We value work‑life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

About The Team

As trusted customer advocates, the Prototyping AI Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers in creating the early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. The team is looking for experienced and motivated technologists who possess a unique balance of technical depth and strong interpersonal and writing skills.

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience
• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
• Experience leading or developing high quality, enterprise scale software products using a structured system development lifecycle
• Design, building, deploying and operating agentic solutions using multi‑agent orchestration.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, San Francisco - 176,600.00 - 239,000.00 USD annually

USA, IL, Chicago - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 169,000.00 - 228,600.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Austin - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, TX, Dallas - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Arlington - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, VA, Herndon - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10513753