Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer — Enterprise Production

Amazon Web Services

Melbourne

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 260,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer engineering teams. You will create reusable architectures and patterns that scale the FDE practice, driving measurable business outcomes and enterprise-grade reliability.

You will lead technical delivery, own strategy across multi-workstream AI programs, and mentor junior engineers while

Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
5+ years programming in at least one language.
5+ years leading design/architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience mentoring, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
Design foundational architectures for multi-agent orchestration and enterprise retrieval systems.
Define operational standards and production readiness criteria for AI systems.
Scale the team's effectiveness by defining patterns and mentoring junior FDEs.