Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (AWS)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Melbourne seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed with enterprise customers and own AI-enabled production systems end-to-end. You will design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade software, mentor teammates, and drive customer adoption by delivering cohesive AI solutions with performance, reliability, and cost controls.

This role involves travel up to 50% and close collaboration with customer engineers to translate business problems into

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams. Translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
• Build production AI applications powering AI workflows — retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, data integration.
• Own production for your workstream: scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance.
• Mentor and uplift: train new team members and provide meaningful code-review feedback.
• Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments.

Skills

Software development

Agile experience

Communication

AI concepts

Agentic development

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd in Melbourne seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed with enterprise customers and own AI-enabled production systems end-to-end. You will design, build, deploy, and operate production-grade software, mentor teammates, and drive customer adoption by delivering cohesive AI solutions with performance, reliability, and cost controls.

This role involves travel up to 50% and close collaboration with customer engineers to translate business problems into