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Senior Prototyping Engineer, Prototyping and AI Customer Engineering
Amazon
On-siteseniorPosted May 15, 2026
About the Role
Apply lean principles and iterative AI/GenAI powered agile development to build rapid MVP experiments and deliver technology and business outcomes for AWS customers.
Requirements
Proven skill in distributed systems design, large-scale automation, database design, API design, and security, with strong Python/Javascript/Typescript skills and an AI-first, lean startup mindset.
Full Job Description
The AI revolution is changing everything. This disruption is occurring everywhere, fueled by rapidly evolving technologies that will impact virtually all industries, from consumer products, retail and healthcare to highly complex industrial engineering like automotive and aerospace. AWS is uniquely positioned to help our customers build the agility required to compete in these evolving marketplaces.
Core to Amazon’s innovation DNA is its methodology for executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest and most cost effective way to prove new ideas, technologies and business models in a real-world environment.
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 role of a Prototyping Engineer is to apply these methods to assemble and deliver technology and business outcomes for the world’s leading clients.
Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset, constantly challenge the norm and looking for better solutions? Do you have an AI first mindset with a lean startup mentality, a good imagination and startup commercial acumen? Are you passionate about technology, understand systems architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies?
Have you built a reputation for innovation, using technology, across the full stack, creatively to solve business problems? Do you naturally build strong relationships with colleagues and work collaboratively to bring solutions to the market?
Amazon is seeking a Senior Prototyping Engineer to join the AWS Japan 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.
So, if you are someone who innovates, likes solving hard problems and working on leading innovative technology, we would love to have you on the team! 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 job will cover the Japan geography, with some traveling to customer sites.
Key job responsibilities
In this position, you will play a pivotal role in building ground breaking capabilities, maintaining operational excellence through a strong Amazonian devops culture, and championing the needs of the customer.
We are seeking passionate Prototyping Engineers with proven and demonstrable skill and expert knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, database design and implementation, API design and implementation and security. Key language skills Python, Javascript/Typescript.
The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating technology outcomes that are robust. A commitment to team work, agility and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance technical outcomes requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must.
About the team
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.
#aws-jp-sa-ap
#AWSJAPAN
Core to Amazon’s innovation DNA is its methodology for executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest and most cost effective way to prove new ideas, technologies and business models in a real-world environment.
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 role of a Prototyping Engineer is to apply these methods to assemble and deliver technology and business outcomes for the world’s leading clients.
Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset, constantly challenge the norm and looking for better solutions? Do you have an AI first mindset with a lean startup mentality, a good imagination and startup commercial acumen? Are you passionate about technology, understand systems architectures & platforms and quick to pick up emerging technologies?
Have you built a reputation for innovation, using technology, across the full stack, creatively to solve business problems? Do you naturally build strong relationships with colleagues and work collaboratively to bring solutions to the market?
Amazon is seeking a Senior Prototyping Engineer to join the AWS Japan 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.
So, if you are someone who innovates, likes solving hard problems and working on leading innovative technology, we would love to have you on the team! 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 job will cover the Japan geography, with some traveling to customer sites.
Key job responsibilities
In this position, you will play a pivotal role in building ground breaking capabilities, maintaining operational excellence through a strong Amazonian devops culture, and championing the needs of the customer.
We are seeking passionate Prototyping Engineers with proven and demonstrable skill and expert knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large scale automation and workflow management, database design and implementation, API design and implementation and security. Key language skills Python, Javascript/Typescript.
The ideal candidate is passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating technology outcomes that are robust. A commitment to team work, agility and strong communication skills (to both business and technical partners) are absolute requirements. Creating reliable, scalable, and high performance technical outcomes requires exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience building large-scale distributed systems. This person has thrived and succeeded in fast paced environment where learning new concepts quickly is a must.
About the team
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.
#aws-jp-sa-ap
#AWSJAPAN