Senior AI Systems Architect - Forward-Deployed, AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sydney; On-site; AUD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will own outcomes end-to-end, craft scalable architectures, mentor junior engineers, and help accelerate AI adoption across customer organizations, with travel and cross-functional collaboration across AWS services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Experience mentoring, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with AI tools; eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs. Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale: design foundations for multi-agent orchestration and enterprise retrieval systems.
• Own production excellence across workstreams with testing strategies, observability, and incident response playbooks.
• Scale the team's effectiveness by defining patterns, participating in interviewing, and mentoring junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating accelerators and reusable platforms to shorten time-to-value.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Leadership

AI / ML concepts

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

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

You will own outcomes end-to-end, craft scalable architectures, mentor junior engineers, and help accelerate AI adoption across customer organizations, with travel and cross-functional collaboration across AWS services.