Senior Prototyping Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 18, 2026. First seen by Alion on Aug 3, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
Amazon is seeking a Senior Prototyping Engineer to join the AWS Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering team. As part of an agile AI enabled development team you will support AWS customers to develop prototypes specific to their articulated strategic vision for new products and services.
Our Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering (PACE) capability is designed to help our customers leverage this new way of working to deliver tangible technology and business outcomes using lean principles, iterative AI/GenAI powered agile development, agentic approaches through multi-functional teams and a lightweight rapid development cycle.
The prototyping team is a hands-on team of cross functional developers supporting AWS customers to build rapid MVP experiments adapted to their specific, innovation focused, use cases. The role of a Prototyping Engineer is to apply these methods to assemble and deliver technology and business outcomes for the world’s leading clients.The job will cover the LATAM geography, with some traveling to customer sites.
Key job responsibilities
- Architect, develop, test and implement loosely coupled distributed software solutions.
- Research and employ up-to-date technological developments in customer engagements.
- Drive the AWS platform by aligning customer requirements with AWS service teams’ roadmaps.
- This role will focus on customers using AWS for research, development, and innovation.
- Author or contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as white-papers, tutorials, blogs, etc.
- Position requires travel, generally, between 0 - 25%.
About the team
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Basic qualifications
- 7+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
- 5+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 2+ years of programming experience
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
Preferred qualifications
- Experience architecting/operating solutions built on AWS
- Experience in IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries
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