Senior AI Production Engineer — Forward-Deployed (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Melbourne; On-site; AUD 240,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

The role emphasizes ownership from prototype to enterprise deployment, developing reusable architectures, and driving measurable customer outcomes while scaling the FDE practice across engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading AI agented development and AI tooling efforts.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Own production excellence across workstreams.
• Scale the team's effectiveness and mentor junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation via accelerators and reusable platforms.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentorship

Communication with stakeholders

AI tools and agent development

Multi-service architecture

Production systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

The role emphasizes ownership from prototype to enterprise deployment, developing reusable architectures, and driving measurable customer outcomes while scaling the FDE practice across engagements.