Forward Deployed AI Engineer: Production Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Seattle (WA)

On-site

USD 144,000 - 194,000

Full time

20 hours ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team.

FDE IIs write production-grade software and own delivery of complete AI workstreams end-to-end — from requirements gathering through production deployment. FDE IIs are autonomous contributors delivering features across the full software lifecycle, balancing design

Qualifications

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
2+ years 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 and agentic workflows. Optimize for latency, reliability, and cost.
Own production for your workstream across the full software lifecycle: scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance.
Mentor and uplift teammates; actively reviews code and provides feedback.
Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable AI patterns and accelerators.