Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to design build deploy and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customers engineering team. FDEs write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business outcomes. They create reusable architectures patterns and engineering mechanisms that scale the entire FDE practice.

Key job responsibilities
Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand the customers business processes technical architecture and operational constraints. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems. Requires 30 50% travel.
Build production AI applications. Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows orchestration layers for multi-agent systems retrieval pipelines workflow automation decision intelligence. Integrate foundation models customer data sources APIs and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences. Optimize for latency reliability observability cost and security.
Own production. Take systems from design through production rollout and operationalization. Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models distributed systems data pipelines and application services. Put in place monitoring evaluations guardrails and the operational mechanisms (testing CI/CD rollback resiliency) that keep AI systems healthy at scale.
Accelerate customer transformation. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer workflows. Codify reusable patterns accelerators and reference architectures that benefit future customers and feed back into AWS.
Raise the bar. Mentor engineers. Contribute to AWS engineering best practices for AI and forward deployment. Push reusable components and learnings back into AWS products and services.


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- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus)
- Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks agent tooling RAG pipelines and prompt engineering

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience working with AWS Services
- Experience with one of the following programming languages: Python Ruby C# or C
- 3 years of agile software development methodology experience
- Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale
- Background as a founder engineering lead or startup builder with high ownership and urgency
- Experience architecting and delivering complex multi-component systems in customer production environments
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA East Palo Alto - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually
USA MA Boston - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 184900.00 - 250200.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually