Sr. Advanced Compute Specialist SA - National Security, National Security Specialists Solutions

Sr. Advanced Compute Specialist SA - National Security, National Security Specialists Solutions Architecture Team

Amazon Web Services is seeking an Advanced Computing Solutions Architect to support our Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Energy (DoE), and broader U.S. Federal Government customers.

Are you excited to help U.S. Government customers leverage performant networks, computing nodes, and emerging technologies to solve the most important workloads in advanced computing? From high performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing to large-scale analytics, modeling, and simulation, this role sits at the forefront of next‑generation compute. Thrilled to be a key part of Amazon, who has been investing in agile and elastic compute for decades, pioneering and shaping the world's technology?

Come join us!

Advanced computing is growing in importance as these systems are critical to the explosion of ML, AI, quantum research, and scientific discovery. We are looking for someone passionate and deeply excited about this space. As an Advanced Computing Solutions Architect (SA), you will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for designing solutions that leverage AWS services to enable and optimize advanced computing workloads and their key performance indicators.

You will work across multiple domains including HPC, quantum computing (Amazon Braket), custom silicon (AWS Graviton, AWS Trainium, AWS Inferentia), and high‑performance networking. You will collaborate with other Specialist SAs, develop white papers, blogs, reference implementations, and presentations, and create field enablement materials to help the broader SA population integrate advanced computing solutions into customer architectures.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The position further requires the candidate to opt into a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.

• 8+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of working with Advanced Compute technologies including, but not limited to, Accelerated Compute, High Performance Compute, and/or Quantum Computing
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph

• Experience working with end user or developer communities
• Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
• Understanding of deep learning training and inference workloads and requirements for high performance compute, network and storage

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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, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at .

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