Principal Specialist SA, AI Security, AWS WWSO Security Services

Application deadline: May 24, 2026

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise in critical security domains. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers facing complex security challenges at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. SSAs craft secure, scalable, and resilient technical architectures that address these challenges while maintaining the highest security standards. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

This 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 and partners succeed. Together, specialists and partners provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.


Key job responsibilities
• Lead complex AI security engagements with enterprise customers, guiding their adoption of secure AI architectures including Bedrock guardrails, agentic identity and access patterns, and AI governance frameworks
• Help customers deploy and operationalize AWS AI-powered security services, including Security Agent, to accelerate threat detection, investigation, and response
• Design security architectures for generative AI and agentic workloads, addressing model access control, data protection in AI pipelines, prompt injection mitigation, and output governance
• Develop the AI security practice across the AWS field community by creating training, enablement content, reference architectures, and scalable programs
• Amplify voice of the customer back to AWS AI security product teams, surface field patterns, identify gaps, and translate feedback into clear requirements that shape the roadmap
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI threat landscape, emerging attack vectors for AI systems, and defensive techniques to continuously improve guidance to customers
• Create and deliver internal/external training, workshops, and conference presentations on AI security best practices
• Collaborate with service teams, security specialists, AI/ML specialists, and partners to build joint solutions that address the most complex AI security challenges customers face
• Author AI security best practices, reference architectures, and prescriptive guidance that scales impact beyond individual engagements
• Build and maintain relationships with AWS Partners in the security and AI ecosystem to design and deliver joint architectures


A day in the life
As a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect for AI Security, you will lead complex customer engagements across the full spectrum of AI security: securing AI workloads and data pipelines, implementing governance and access controls for agentic systems, and helping customers adopt AWS AI-powered security services. You will develop and scale technical expertise across the AWS field community, and work closely with AWS service teams to translate what you learn from customers into product improvements.

About the team
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Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. - 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 - Knowledge of distributed systems 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 with any combination of the following: application security frameworks, identity and access controls, incident response, mobile security, cloud computing and security, AI security, threat intelligence, and penetration testing
- Experience in deploying identity and access management systems, or experience with threat modeling and penetration testing and experience in any Bigdata architecture
- Experience in designing and producing content for a technical audience, such as Software Engineers, System Administrators, or IT professionals

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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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, CO, Denver - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, GA, Atlanta - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 201,000.00 - 272,000.00 USD annually
USA, TX, Houston - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 182,800.00 - 247,300.00 USD annually