AI-First Content Systems Architect

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with Product Managers and marketing teams across AWS. You will shape future-state workflows, design how humans and AI agents collaborate, and deliver AI-native content systems across the content lifecycle.

You will build prototypes, wire integrations, and drive production deployments that scale to millions of assets. This role emphasizes fast validation, executive sponsorship, and cross-functional

Qualifications

• 6+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 6+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 6+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Strong technical fluency: comfort working directly with engineers, understanding system architectures, and integrating across APIs, MCPs, and data pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to build functional prototypes or near-production artifacts using AI/ML tools, no-code/low-code platforms, or direct coding, not just writing requirements for others to build.

Responsibilities

• Build to learn. Take identified opportunities and turn them into working prototypes using model APIs, agent frameworks, and lightweight code. Compress the distance from idea to conviction.
• Design the human-agent experience. Define where humans stay in the loop, at which steps, and with what controls. Shape how marketers discover and interact with agents, and how agents collaborate with each other through protocols, context passing, and trust signals.
• Turn validated prototypes into production architectures. Partner with engineering to move from "this works" to "this ships". Defining the technical path, integration points, and data contracts that make a prototype durable.
• Own agent quality in production. Define evaluation frameworks, set quality thresholds, monitor drift after model or data changes, and drive continuous improvement based on real usage.
• Build the scaffolding that accelerates the team. Create reusable patterns, agent templates, integration blueprints, and reference architectures that make PMs and engineers faster at shipping AI-native workflows.
• Evangelize what's possible. Run workshops and provocations that help stakeholders experience the future through working artifacts, not decks. Turn skeptics into co-owners by putting working software in their hands.

Skills

Software dev

Programming

System architecture

Mentorship

AI prototyping

APIs & data

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Seattle is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with Product Managers and marketing teams across AWS. You will shape future-state workflows, design how humans and AI agents collaborate, and deliver AI-native content systems across the content lifecycle.

You will build prototypes, wire integrations, and drive production deployments that scale to millions of assets. This role emphasizes fast validation, executive sponsorship, and cross-functional