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Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Agentic AI

Amazon

Location

Seattle, WA

Type

Full-time

Posted

5/8/2026

Compensation

$200,100 - $270,600 per year

Undergraduate with 5+ Years of Experience
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·FY 2025

Job description

Agentic AI at AWS is seeking exceptional Principal Engineers to lead the development of next-generation AI agent platforms, services, and tools. This role involves tackling complex challenges in the Generative AI space while delivering high-impact technical projects. The team is focused on building scalable, efficient, and fault-tolerant systems that enhance customer experiences. Candidates will have the opportunity to shape technology and drive innovation in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of design and development engineering experience.
  • Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
  • Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects, driving strategic technical decisions.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large scale, highly available, secure cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience with AI software systems including Agents.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-impact technical projects and architect software systems built to scale.
  • Build trend-setting AWS services in the Generative AI field.
  • Deliver strategic technical projects that have significant bottom-line impact.
  • Design and architect large-scale systems that are scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant.
  • Provide technical leadership by mentoring engineers and guiding complex technical decisions.
  • Work across domains including compute, databases, networking, identity, and ML science teams.

Benefits

  • Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.

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