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Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Agentic AI

Bellevue, Washington, United StatesFull-time$200k–$271k2026-11-12

Core

Design, build, and scale foundational AI services and multi-agent platforms to enable customers to solve complex challenges with agentic AI.

Role type

Principal Engineer (Agentic AI / Generative AI)

Builds

AI agent platforms, orchestration systems, knowledge retrieval services, and secure cloud infrastructure for autonomous agents.

Domain

Cloud Computing / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale system architecture, AI/ML engineering, multi-agent orchestration, cloud infrastructure design, technical leadership, strategic project delivery

Preferred skills

Experience with AI software systems including Agents, large-scale highly available secure cloud infrastructure

Technologies

AWS, Generative AI, Multi-agent systems, Serverless runtime, Observability tools

Responsibilities

Architect and lead engineering strategy for critical AI agent platforms; design scalable, fault-tolerant tier-zero systems; mentor engineers on complex technical issues; drive innovation in compute, databases, networking, and ML science domains.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on technical leader with strategic impact