We are seeking a Principal Solutions Architect to serve as the senior technical leader for a portfolio of AWS's largest and most strategic semiconductor customers. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of **Electronic Design Automation (EDA)** and **Generative AI**, partnering with C-suite and engineering leadership at the world's leading chip designers, foundries, and semiconductor IP companies to shape and accelerate their cloud transformation.
This is a builder-facing, customer-obsessed role. You will not just advise - you will architect the reference patterns, influence the AWS product roadmap, and mentor a community of Solutions Architects across the segment. Your success will be measured first and foremost by **customer outcomes**: the business problems you help solve, the workloads you help move to and optimize on AWS, and the measurable impact your customers realize.
Key job responsibilities
### Customer Impact & Outcomes
- Own the senior technical relationship for several of the largest semiconductor accounts, translating each customer's business objectives (faster tape-outs, reduced design cycle time, cost-per-wafer efficiency, time-to-market) into AWS architectures and adoption plans.
- Lead high-stakes technical engagements from discovery through production, keeping the customer's business outcome as the primary framing lens for every recommendation.
- Serve as the trusted advisor to VP/CTO-level stakeholders, earning the right to influence multi-year technology strategy.
### EDA Domain Leadership
- Architect and optimize large-scale **EDA workloads** on AWS - front-end (logic/RTL simulation, synthesis, verification) and back-end (place-and-route, physical verification, timing/signoff) flows at scale.
- Guide customers on high-throughput HPC design, elastic compute (Spot/On-Demand fleets), high-performance shared storage (FSx for Lustre, NFS appliances), scheduler integration (LSF, Slurm), and license optimization for EDA tools (Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens EDA).
- Advise on Graviton adoption for EDA tooling, cost/performance benchmarking, and hybrid burst-to-cloud patterns.
### Generative AI Leadership
- Help semiconductor customers apply **Generative AI** to their business - from design assistants, RTL/verification copilots, and knowledge-mining across design data, to GenAI-accelerated documentation, test generation, and yield/manufacturing analytics.
- Architect production GenAI solutions on **Amazon Bedrock**, agentic patterns (AgentCore), model customization, RAG over proprietary design data, and responsible-AI guardrails.
- Establish reference architectures that bridge EDA and GenAI (e.g., LLM-assisted design workflows) and evangelize them across the segment.
### Technical Influence & Scale
- Operate with **organization-wide (org+) influence** - your architectures, mechanisms, and thought leadership should scale beyond your accounts to the broader HTES segment and AWS field.
- Create reusable assets: reference architectures, whitepapers, workshops, and internal enablement that raise the technical bar for the entire SA team.
- Represent the voice of the semiconductor customer to AWS service teams; influence the product roadmap for EDA and GenAI capabilities.
- Mentor and develop SAs across the segment, contributing to hiring, calibration, and technical community-building.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences and at C-level, including training, workshops, publications
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of database design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
- Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Deep hands-on experience architecting large-scale HPC and/or EDA workloads (semiconductor design, verification, or manufacturing compute).
- Demonstrated expertise designing and deploying **Generative AI** solutions in production (LLMs, RAG, agentic systems, model customization).
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually
USA, CA, San Francisco - 210,200.00 - 284,300.00 USD annually
