Principal AI & Emerging Tech Specialist, Emerging Technology

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider. AWS runs a globally distributed and resilient environment operating at massive scale and enabling businesses and government agencies to run their operations and applications on AWSs multi-tenant infrastructure. Through AWS virtual infrastructure customers all over the world innovate faster with emerging technologies like AI/machine learning including generative AI high performance computing quantum and more.

Our World Wide Public Sector (WWPS) team is looking for an exceptional sales candidate who is excited about accelerating customers journey to transform their mission areas and business functions with emerging technology. The candidate will join our fast growing AWS National Security Emerging Technology team to support sensitive and critical US Defense and Intelligence cloud
technologies and activities.

In this AI & Emerging Tech Specialist role you will focus on developing customer use cases driving adoption and shaping the go-to-market strategy across multiple customer agencies in close collaboration with each account team. You will work backwards from customers mission needs to develop integrated solutions that leverage AWS and partner data analytics generative AI and emerging technology capabilities. As an AI & Emerging Tech Specialist you will partner with customer executives and builders as they adopt DataOps MLOps and AI governance best practices to operationalize AI at scale in secure and classified environments.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess an active Top Secret security clearance. The position further requires that after start the selected candidate obtain and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph and satisfy other security related requirements.

Key job responsibilities
- Prospect into new AI and emerging technology customers and buying centers by working closely with AWS account teams and partners to identify mission-driven use cases for generative AI agentic AI ML at the edge quantum and other emerging capabilities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert in AI and emerging technologies including generative AI foundation models and associated AWS services providing specialized sales guidance technical enablement and thought leadership to account teams and customers.
- Meet regularly with national security executives and mission owners to understand their mission requirements existing architectures and technology roadmaps and introduce AWS AI data analytics and emerging technology services that accelerate mission outcomes.
- Negotiate and close large complex AI and emerging technology opportunities working across multiple agencies and buying centers to drive adoption at scale.
- Work closely with Amazon business leaders including customer account teams hardware and software engineering leaders professional services and technical program managers to align emerging technology solutions with customer mission needs.
- Represent the voice of the customer; collaborate with field and central teams to bring customer feedback to product teams. Lead curation of custom feature requests regional availability requirements and unique mission use cases across classified and unclassified environments.
- Identify opportunities for Marketing and Public Policy engagements that position AWS as a trusted partner for AI and emerging technologies in the national security community.
- Leverage Defense and Professional Associations to establish AWS as a thought and industry leader in AI and emerging technologies deepening customer intimacy nurturing existing partner relationships developing new partnerships and uncovering new opportunities.

A day in the life
This is a highly dynamic role and as such your typical day could include 2-3 morning meetings with agency executives program officers and the afternoon you might be leading an internal strategy or working session with key stakeholders from NatSec account teams service teams or Professional Services.

About the team
The team you would join specializes in AI and Emerging Technologies for National Security with a core focus on generative AI frontier AI ML at the edge quantum mission networking and advanced computing. We pride ourselves on our deep technical expertise and mission knowledge. Members of our team dive deep into their technical specialties stay ahead of trends in mission adoption of emerging technologies and develop best practices for accelerating responsible adoption across classified and unclassified environments.

As a high-performing sales organization embedded within the NatSec community the team serves as a trusted partner to end users agency leadership and the policy community helping customers navigate the rapidly evolving AI and emerging technology landscape to deliver mission impact.

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 hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the worlds most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating thats 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
AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas fresh perspectives and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll 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 theres nothing we cant achieve.



- Bachelors degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
- 7 years of technology platform sales with an understanding of government IT data centers cloud services and cloud adoption experience
- Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Current active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

- 10 years of direct sales or business development in software cloud or SaaS markets selling to C-level executives experience
- Experience with AI/ML technologies
- Experience with one or more of the following domains: analytics security storage DevOps application development or machine learning
- Experience interpreting data and making business recommendations
- Experience developing negotiating and executing business agreements
- Experience with generative AI foundation models or agentic AI solutions
- Track record of building new business categories or emerging technology practices from the ground up

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

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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt 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 MD Jessup - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually
USA VA Herndon - 176100.00 - 238200.00 USD annually


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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1
Yearly Salary Salary: 176100 - 238200

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