Forward-Deployed AI Delivery Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead a pod of 5–15 engineers embedded within strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery execution, engineering quality, and team development for their scope.

You will drive pod outcomes across one or more concurrent engagements, define what great looks like for your team, and balance delivery with people growth while traveling 30–50% to customer sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 7+ years non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 3+ years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
• Experience with agentic and spec-driven development (developing AI agents a plus).
• Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production environments at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead FDE pod delivery across one or more customer engagements.
• Provide technical direction and review architecture decisions.
• Own production excellence and ensure readiness for AI systems your team builds.
• Hire, develop, and retain FDE talent; coach junior FDEs.
• Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption within customer engagements.
• Represent the FDE team to AWS stakeholders.

Skills

7+ years software development

3+ years engineering team management

3+ years Agile/startup environment

Experience communicating to senior领导

AI agents / AI/ML in production

Education

Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead a pod of 5–15 engineers embedded within strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery execution, engineering quality, and team development for their scope.

You will drive pod outcomes across one or more concurrent engagements, define what great looks like for your team, and balance delivery with people growth while traveling 30–50% to customer sites.