Embedded AI Production Engineer - FDE II

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship and Career Growth

Work/Life Balance

Inclusive Team Culture

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II) to embed directly inside strategic enterprise customers. You will independently design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer’s engineering team, delivering measurable business outcomes.

You will own features across the full software lifecycle and coach teammates on quality code. The role requires design mastery, collaboration with customers, and travel (30–50%).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 2+ years of experience in Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environments.

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams to understand business value and translate requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems. Travel 30–50%.
• Build production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration, data integration; optimize latency, reliability and cost.
• Own production across the full software lifecycle: scoping, design, code, tests, deployment, maintenance; troubleshoot incidents and implement monitoring and CI/CD.
• Mentor and uplift team members on code quality, participate in code reviews, and help others grow.
• Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments and feeding back into AWS services.

Education

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II) to embed directly inside strategic enterprise customers. You will independently design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer’s engineering team, delivering measurable business outcomes.

You will own features across the full software lifecycle and coach teammates on quality code. The role requires design mastery, collaboration with customers, and travel (30–50%).