Principal AI Scientist

About the Role Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a world-class Principal AI Scientist to lead cutting-edge research and development at the intersection of artificial intelligence and telecommunications network infrastructure. In this role, you will pioneer AI-native approaches to network modeling, reasoning, and optimization — shaping how the world’s largest telecommunications operators harness AI to build, operate, and evolve next-generation networks. You will serve as the technical thought leader for network-domain AI science within AWS’s telecommunications practice — defining strategy, driving research, and delivering production-ready solutions that unlock transformative business value for Tier-1 operators. What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end research and development of AI models for telecommunications networks — from architecture design, training methodology, and evaluation through optimization and production deployment on AWS.
• Design and develop network ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic representations that enable AI systems to reason over complex, multi-vendor, multi-domain network topologies.
• Develop and apply graph neural networks (GNNs), foundation models, transformer architectures, and other advanced AI techniques to network telemetry, configuration, and operational data.
• Drive AI-Native 6G co-development with Tier-1 telecommunications operators — translating their network AI challenges into research programs, proof-of-concept engagements, and scalable production solutions.
• Represent AWS as a technical thought leader in global industry forums and standards bodies — shaping the direction of AI for networks, publishing research, and positioning AWS as the platform of choice.
• Build deep partnerships with AWS Service Teams to integrate network AI capabilities into the broader AWS AI/ML and infrastructure platform.
• Author and deliver strategic narratives, science papers, and technical documents for AWS leadership and customer executives.
• Design privacy-preserving, distributed model training approaches that enable operators to leverage sensitive network data without centralization.
• Collaborate across a multidisciplinary team to support customer engagements, industry co-innovation programs, and developer scaling initiatives.
• Mentor and influence a community of Solutions Architects, Field Development Engineers, and partner engineers on AI/ML best practices for telecommunications. What We're Looking For
• 10+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, and data.
• Deep hands-on expertise in building, training, and evaluating AI/ML models at scale, with mastery of telecommunications network architectures, protocols, and data systems.
• Proficiency in graph neural networks, foundation models, transformer architectures, and other advanced AI techniques for network telemetry and operations.
• Experience leading AI-Native 6G co-development with Tier-1 operators and translating network AI challenges into research programs and production solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to publish and present research; serve as a technical thought leader in industry forums.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional AWS service teams and guide customers through deployments. Compensation & Benefits
• Inclusive culture and diversity programs (e.g., CORE, AmazeCon).
• Mentorship and career growth opportunities; ongoing learning.
• Flexible work arrangements and work-life balance.
• Direct access to AWS leadership and senior customer executives in a high-impact role.