AI Production Engineer, Forward Deployed (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed with enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

You will own features across the full software lifecycle, coach others on high-quality code, and focus on measurable customer outcomes with significant travel commitments (30–50%).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience with agentic and spec-driven development (AI agents a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams and translate requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
• Build production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows with scalable designs.
• Own production for your workstream across scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• Mentor and uplift team members on coding quality and best practices.
• Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments.

Skills

Software development

Agile environments

Technical communication

Agentic development

AI tools

AWS services

Education

Bachelor or related field in CS or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed with enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

You will own features across the full software lifecycle, coach others on high-quality code, and focus on measurable customer outcomes with significant travel commitments (30–50%).