Principal Specialist SA, AI Security, AWS WWSO Security Services

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Amazon Web · Seattle, WA

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About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS 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? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating - that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. 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.

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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.

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