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Principal and Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Compute and ML Services

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-02

Core

Architecting and delivering the compute layer for the internet, including AI/ML infrastructure, serverless runtimes, and custom silicon integration at global scale.

Role type

Principal and Senior Principal Engineer (Infrastructure & ML Systems)

Builds

Compute platforms, ML infrastructure, serverless runtimes, security foundations, and custom silicon integration

Domain

Cloud Computing, AI/ML Infrastructure, Hardware-Software Co-design

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

End-to-end system architecture, distributed systems, hardware-software co-design, large-scale systems programming, virtualization, operating systems, performance engineering, cross-team leadership, technical strategy, mentorship

Preferred skills

VP/SVP-level strategy influence, growing Principal Engineering talent, firmware and kernel integration, accelerator integration, multi-year system ownership

Technologies

EC2, SageMaker, Bedrock, Graviton, PCI, Kernels, Firmware

Responsibilities

Own technical architecture and hands-on delivery of critical systems; drive end-to-end system design decisions; lead cross-team initiatives; author technical vision documents; make hard architectural calls at the hardware-software boundary; mentor senior engineers; establish operational standards; set long-term technical direction and multi-year engineering vision

Seniority

Principal (Strategy & Mentorship) / Senior Principal (Strategy & Mentorship)

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