Sr. Applied AI Solutions Architect - Public Sector, Amazon Connect
Amazon · Arlington, VA · Solutions Architect
About this role
Amazon is hiring a senior-level AI Engineer in the machine learning function based in Arlington, VA. The posting calls out experience with Python, Node.js, AWS, Serverless. Compensation is listed at $169,000–$228,600 per year.
- Role
- AI Engineer
- Function
- machine learning
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Arlington, VA
- Department
- Solutions Architect
- Posted
- Apr 15, 2026
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Job description
from Amazon careersThis position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains, providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges. The Applied AI Solutions Architecture team within AWS is seeking a hands-on, customer-obsessed Solutions Architect to accelerate customer adoption of Amazon Connect's AI capabilities. As an Applied AI Solutions Architect, you will be embedded with customers to help them prepare their Amazon Connect implementations for production by focusing on three critical pillars of agentic AI: Model Selection — Guiding customers through evaluating and selecting the right foundation models (via Amazon Bedrock) for their contact center use cases, balancing latency, accuracy, cost, and compliance requirements. Prompt Configuration — Designing, testing, and optimizing AI prompts and system instructions for Amazon Connect AI agents, including self-service agents, answer recommendation agents, and custom orchestrator agents. Tool Configuration — Architecting and building the tool integrations (APIs, Lambda functions, data connectors, knowledge bases) that agentic AI…