Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Amazon.com, Inc.; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon AWS is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing and running production AI systems. You will own end-to-end outcomes, define architectures, and drive multi-workstream programs with high ownership and urgency.

You will lead technical delivery, mentor junior FDEs, shape engineering patterns, and accelerate customer transformation while traveling 30–50%. A strong background in OO languages and AI tooling is expected.

Qualifications

• Mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leadership experience.
• Proficient in modern languages with OO design.
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development.
• Experience leading architecture and design for systems.
• Experience developing in the last 3 years.
• Able to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience leading AI development at production scale.
• Familiar with AI tools, eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering.
• Bachelor's in CS or equivalent.
• Experience with full SDLC and code reviews.
• Experience working with AWS services.
• Experience deploying AI/ML in enterprise production.
• Founder/leadership background with high ownership.
• Architecting multi-component systems in customer environments.
• React, TS, Python, Go experience.
• Leading customer-facing technical projects.
• 3+ years in Agile/startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex AI programs across multiple streams.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Design foundational architectures for multi-agent orchestration and enterprise retrieval/decision platforms.
• Own production excellence across workstreams with testing and observability standards.
• Scale team effectiveness by defining patterns and mentoring FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation with reusable accelerators and platform learnings.

Skills

Mentorship

Java/C++/C#

Professional dev

System architecture

Recent development

Technical communication

AI agents at scale

AI tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Education

BSc CS

SDLC

AWS experience

AI/ML at prod scale

Founder/leadership

Complex systems

React/TS/Python/Go

Customer-facing projects

Agile/Startup

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team. FDEs write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business outcomes. They create reusable architectures, patterns, and engineering mechanisms that scale the entire FDE practice.

Key job responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs. Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries. Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy. Requires 30–50% travel.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale
• Design the foundational architectures — multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms — for the most complex customer engagements. Drive clarity where neither the business problem nor technology approach is fully defined. Build production systems that handle enterprise-scale traffic and reliability requirements.
• Own production excellence across workstreams
• Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production readiness criteria for AI systems across your engagement scope. Establish mechanisms (testing strategies, observability standards, incident response playbooks) that ensure AI systems remain healthy. Drive operational improvements that raise the bar for the team.
• Scale the team's effectiveness
• Define engineering patterns, contribute to the interview and hiring process, and mentor junior FDEs into independent contributors. Coach others on system design, customer engagement, and production operations. Drive engineering excellence standards within your scope.
• Accelerate customer transformation
• Identify systemic opportunities to expand AI adoption across the customer organization. Create accelerators and reusable platforms that reduce time-to-value from months to weeks. Feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.

About the team

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• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
• Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• Experience in professional, non-internship software development
• Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in development in the last 3 years
• Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus)
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience working with AWS Services
• Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale
• Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency
• Experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments
• Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
• Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships
• 3+ years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment

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