Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, HPC

Sr. Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect, HPC

Job ID: 3125478 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

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 succeed. Partner teams own the strategy, recruiting, development, and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together we provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain‑specific expertise, able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization, SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert‑level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable, flexible, and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud‑based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers? Become an AWS Specialist SA!

Are you passionate about cloud computing and its potential to overcome some of the biggest challenges in High Performance Computing (HPC)? Do you have a unique combination of deep technical knowledge, business acumen and strong interpersonal skills? Do you enjoy tackling large analytical problems as massive scale? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Senior Worldwide Specialist Solutions Architect focused on HPC to work with our customers, including physics informed machine learning, CAE, Weather and accelerated computing with GPU to craft cloud‑based solutions.

As a trusted customer advocate, you will help organizations understand best practices around advanced cloud‑based solutions, and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. You will have the opportunity to help shape and execute a strategy to build mind‑share and broad use of AWS within enterprise customers. The ideal candidate must be self‑motivated with a proven track record of customer obsession and delivering results. The ability to connect technology with measurable business value is critical to a solutions architect. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, products, and technical challenges in HPC.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. Citizen and obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance.

Key job responsibilities

• Design Customer Solutions: Collaborate with the wider AWS teams to help customers and partners architect HPC solutions that leverage AWS Services.
• Engage with Solution Architects, Account Managers, Professional Services, and Partners to define an HPC Engagement strategy for AWS operational territories and key accounts, with emphasis on public sector National Super Computing Centers, Government agencies, and/or AI/ML, CAE, Weather and accelerated computing with GPU.
• Thought Leadership: Provide thought leadership on solutions that benefit customers through the use of AWS Services. This takes the form of contribution to external publications such as the AWS Compute Blog, whitepapers and reference architectures, as well as internal training of Solutions Architects, Professional Services Consultants, Technical Account Managers, and AWS Trainers.
• Serve as a key member of the business development and accounting management team in helping to ensure customer success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the AWS platform.
• Assist solution providers with the definition and implementation of technical and business strategies.
• Capture and share best‑practice knowledge amongst the worldwide AWS solution architect community.
• Understand AWS market segments, and industry verticals.
• Understand and exploit the use of internal business support systems.

About the team

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience communicating across technical and non‑technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients.
• Developer experience with HPC frameworks for workloads in a domain such as CAE, Weather Simulation, oil and gas, automotive/aerospace, financial services or pharmaceuticals.
• Proven ability to understand HPC user requirements and map these to solutions.
• Experience in architecting an HPC platform with scheduling middleware (e.g., Slurm, Torque, Symphony or GridServer).
• Experience in deployment, tuning and management of HPC technologies in a multi‑user environment.
• High level understanding of the underlying infrastructure platform and resources to run HPC services.
• Proficient in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, Python, CUDA, Bash.
• Deep GPU knowledge in HPC and/or AI/ML frameworks.
• Current, active U.S. Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields.
• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem, or experience in software development.
• Can communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Knowledge of operating systems, hardware, storage, network, security, database administration and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience implementing AWS services.
• Working knowledge of HPC schedulers and distributed/parallel file systems, underlying IT systems, and the HPC development process, high throughput and tight coupling approaches.
• An understanding of the cloud computing delivery model as it relates to HPC.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $138,200/year in our lowest geographic market up to $239,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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