Sr WW Specialist Solutions Architect, Research – GenAI, Applied Full-time

Do you want to help define the future of Go to Market (GTM) at AWS using generative AI (GenAI)?

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.

Within SMGS, you will be part of the core worldwide GenAI Applied Computational Machine Learning team, responsible for defining, building, and deploying targeted strategies to accelerate customer adoption of our services and solutions across industry verticals.

You will be working directly with the most important customers (across segments) in the GenAI model training and inference space helping them adopt and scale large-scale workloads (e.g., foundation models) on AWS. You will conduct model performance evaluations, optimizations and work directly with engineering and product to optimize the ML stack for efficiency and scale. You will conduct external/internal evangelism, and developing demos and proof-of-concepts

Key job responsibilities

You will help develop the industry’s best cloud-based solutions to grow the GenAI business. Working closely with our engineering teams, you will help enable new capabilities for our customers to develop and deploy GenAI workloads on AWS. You will facilitate the enablement of AWS technical community, solution architects and, sales with specific customer centric value proposition and demos about end-to-end GenAI on AWS cloud.

You will possess a technical and business background that enables you to drive an engagement and interact at the highest levels with startups, Enterprises, and AWS partners. You will have the technical depth and business experience to easily articulate the potential and challenges of GenAI models and applications to engineering teams and C-Level executives. This requires deep familiarity across the stack – compute infrastructure (Amazon EC2, Lustre), ML frameworks PyTorch, JAX, orchestration layers Kubernetes and Slurm, parallel computing (NCCL, MPI), MLOPs, as well as target use cases in the cloud.

You will drive the development of the GTM plan for building and scaling GenAI on AWS, interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable GenAI solutions to solve them (often via proof-of-concepts). You will also work closely with account teams, research scientists, and product teams to drive model implementations and new solutions.

You should be passionate about helping companies/partners understand best practices for operating on AWS. An ideal candidate will be adept at interacting, communicating and partnering with other teams within AWS such as product teams, solutions architecture, sales, marketing, business development, and professional services, as well as representing your team to executive management. You will have a natural appetite to learn, optimize and build new technologies and techniques. You will also look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.

This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of technological transformations, as a key technical leader. Additionally, you will work with the AWS ML and EC2 product teams to shape product vision and prioritize features for AI/ML Frameworks and applications. A keen sense of ownership, drive, and being scrappy is a must.

About the team

The Applied Computational Machine Learning team is highly specialized on computational workloads, performance evaluations and optimization. We work with Foundation model builders and large scale training customers, dive deep into the ML stack including the hardware (GPUs, Custom Silicon), operating system (kernel, communication libraries (NCCL, MPI), Frameworks (PyTorch, NeMO, Jax) and models (Llama, Nemotron…). We also work with containers (Docker, Enroot), orchestrators (EKS) and schedulers (Slurm). We work and influence with the most technical customers and advanced engineering teams in the GenAI space and develop best practices and tools to measure and optimize performances throughout the ML stack.

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

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent

– 8+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

– 3+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

– 5+ years building or optimizing computational applications for large scale HPC systems (e.g. physics based simulations) to take advantage of high performance networking (e.g. Amazon EFA, Infiniband, RoCE), distributed parallel filesystems (e.g. Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS) and accelerators (e.g. GPUs, custom-silicon)

– Understanding of deep learning training and inference workloads and requirements for high performance compute, network and storage

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of infrastructure architecture, database architecture and networking experience

– Experience working with end user or developer communities

– 8+ years building or optimizing computational applications for large scale HPC systems (e.g. physics based simulations) to take advantage of high performance networking (e.g. Amazon EFA, Infiniband, RoCE), distributed parallel filesystems (e.g. Lustre, BeeGFS, GPFS) and accelerators (e.g. GPUs, custom-silicon)

– Experience in deep learning training and inference workloads and requirements for high performance compute, network and storage.

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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 compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.