Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering

AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to design build and deploy production-grade AI systems. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to embed with FDE delivery teams and own the security posture of production AI systems deployed in customer environments.

You conduct security reviews perform threat modeling build security automation and ensure every FDE-delivered system meets both AWS and customer security standards. You move at the speed of the FDE team: weeks not quarters. You dont just flag risks and hand them back. You find the vulnerability design the fix and ship the control.

This role combines the depth of a senior application security engineer with the urgency and customer-facing presence of forward-deployed engineering. You secure AI/ML pipelines end-to-end build reusable security tooling that scales the FDE practice and operate with a production mindset from day one of deployment.

This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen.

Key job responsibilities
- Conduct security design reviews threat modeling and architecture assessments for production AI systems (agentic workflows RAG pipelines orchestration layers model integrations customer data pipelines)
- Embed with FDE delivery teams in customer environments; assess infrastructure security posture identify gaps implement controls while maintaining delivery velocity
- Build security automation and tooling: scanning testing monitoring capabilities purpose-built for forward-deployed AI systems; create reusable security accelerators
- Implement controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection guardrail bypass model endpoint hardening training data protection output filtering data isolation
- Integrate security into FDE engineering workflows: CI/CD security gates secrets management dependency scanning container security
- Triage and respond to security incidents in production AI systems; build monitoring and alerting for AI-specific security signals
- Document solutions as reusable patterns playbooks and architectural guidance
- Requires up to 25% travel

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A day in the life
You start the day reviewing a pull request from an FDE engineer building a multi-agent orchestration system for a healthcare customer catching an authorization gap before it ships. Mid-morning youre on-site with the customers security team walking through your threat model for their RAG pipeline. After lunch youre writing a reusable Terraform module that enforces data isolation for multi-tenant AI deployments. You close out the day running automated guardrail tests against a Bedrock-powered application before it goes live. Every week brings a different customer a different architecture and a new AI security challenge.

About the team
AWS Forward Deployed Engineering embeds AI engineers directly inside strategic enterprise customers to build production AI systems. AWS invested $1B in this initiative. We move at the speed of the customer: demonstrating ROI in weeks not quarters. We are customer-obsessed. We lead customers toward outcomes build together and leave behind scalable patterns. Security is our enabling function: without it nothing goes to production. Our culture is people-first anti-burnout bold and engineering-excellence-driven.

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- 5 years of any combination of the following: application security frameworks identity and access controls incident response mobile security cloud computing and security AI security threat intelligence and penetration testing experience
- 5 years of work in identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans experience
- 4 years of (non-internship) scripting programming and security code review in common programming languages experience
- Knowledge of at least two of the following programming languages: Scala Java Python C/C or Go
- Experience with threat modeling and penetration testing or experience that includes strong analytical skills attention to detail and effective communication abilities

- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- US government security clearance of top secret or above or 7 years of IT platform implementation in a technical and analytical role experience
- Experience with compliance & security standards including PCI DSS ISO 27001 HIPAA and NIST
- Experience with AWS technologies

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

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 Mountain View - 183000.00 - 247600.00 USD annually
USA MA Boston - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 175100.00 - 236900.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 178400.00 - 226700.00 USD annually