Principal Solutions Architect, Generative AI, Startups, AWS

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

Trusted by more startups around the world, AWS makes the power of cloud computing accessible for all by giving founders everywhere access to the same technology that powers the world's largest companies. With nearly 20 years of experience gained from supporting hundreds of thousands of startups that have come before, we help founders prove that their world-changing ideas are possible, at any stage of growth or level of funding. This is why more startups, and over 80% of unicorns, build on AWS.

Startup Solutions Architects work hand in hand with AWS customers to help them make the most of the Cloud. They are at the crossroads of business and technology and engage with startups of different stages. Supporting the overall technical relationship between customers and AWS, they work to understand the customer's business needs and give prescriptive guidance on how to create business value with technology. Solutions Architects also have broader impact at scale, taking a supporting role in creating and presenting technical content and best practices.

In this role you will get to practice your creativity, linking technology to tangible solutions and educating AWS customers about the art of the possible. You will have the opportunity to grow cloud-native reference architectures for a variety of use cases. You will have the support to grow your expertise in industry and technology areas of depth. Every day you will be learning something new from your customers, your peers and your own experiments.

Principal Solutions Architects work on the more complex customer challenges and opportunities. They have a leading role in mentoring others and developing the team capabilities. They combine an informed view of the market with their understanding of emerging technology trends to support innovation across the startup customer base. Externally, they are recognized thought leaders and refine the strategy of our customers. Internally, they earn a reputation of role models and deliver bar-raising guidance to the broader Solutions Architecture team.

You will be part of a team that is responsible for driving adoption of AWS technologies while bringing differentiated value to customers. This is a team dedicated to Startups, an important and growing subset of customers for AWS. Startups follow unique technology adoption patterns and growth trajectories that distinguish them from traditional businesses, so you will be employing engagement strategies and programs tailored to their business needs and technical preferences.

Key job responsibilities
* As a Solutions Architect, you will work directly with customers to accelerate their challenging and important projects and recommend best-practice architectures in line with their long-term business outcomes.
* You operate as a trusted advisor for startups. The best interests of the customer will shape the guidance you provide. You work backwards from their priorities and find inventive ways to add value with solutions utilizing AWS and its Partners' technology.
* You capture and share the voice of the customer to influence the roadmap of new features and services for AWS. You use your customer understanding to support the creation or updates of technical content and reference architectures (e.g. white papers, code samples, blog posts).
* Evangelize and educate about AWS technology and industry trends (e.g. workshops, user groups, meetups, public speaking, online videos or conferences).

To be successful in this role you need to be passionate about startups and cloud architectures. You are a builder with genuine curiosity about how technology can support your customers' business models and objectives. You are a lifetime learner that develops areas of depth in technical domains relevant to your interests and your customer's outcomes. You are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, where you will be positively challenged and consistently embrace the Amazon Culture.

A day in the life
The Solutions Architect team at AWS is responsible for helping customers successfully implement cloud technologies. In a typical week you will meet multiple customers and you will collaborate with them on designing and operating well-architected solutions. You will earn their trust and show them the art of the possible, educating them around the capabilities of AWS. Partnering with internal teams and experts, leveraging a deep knowledge of our tools and products, you'll craft highly-scalable, flexible, and resilient cloud architectures that address our customers' business problems. As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to continuously learn and innovate daily.

The startup organization at AWS comprises experts from across the global ecosystem, including former founders and CTOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and mentors who upskill today's founders to navigate challenges and opportunities as they build their business, and our Startup Solutions Architect team is where the magic happens. is dedicated to working with startup companies as they build and scale their businesses. We're here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible – and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so. We are a group of technologists with varied backgrounds; from fresh graduates to ex-CTOs, all growing our skills and startup expertise, while working on cutting edge technology use-cases with some of the world's most innovative companies. For Solutions Architect who like to invent, there's no better place to build than on the AWS Startup SA team.

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Work/Life Balance
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.

Inclusive Team Culture
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Mentorship and Career Growth
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with building, validating and deploying GenAI models and applications on cloud infrastructure.
- Sound knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, with working knowledge of frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow, JAX or MXNet.
- Knowledge of MLOps tools and workflows for model development, validation, and deployment.
- High level of communicating effectively across internal and external organizations, with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience driving technical and/or organizational change of significant complexity

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Professional experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS and/or AWS certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional)
- Expertise in one or more of the following: DevOps, Containers, Big Data Solutions, Serverless, Networking, Security, Databases, IOT, AI/ML, Cloud Migration and IT Transformation.
- Hands-on experience benchmarking and optimizing performance of models on accelerated computing (GPU, TPU, AI ASICs) clusters with high-speed networking.
- Experience scaling model training and inference using technologies like Slurm, ParallelCluster, Amazon SageMaker
- Experience in developing and deploying large scale machine learning or deep learning models and/or systems into production, including batch and real-time data processing

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