Forward-Deployed AI Systems Engineer

Amazon Inc.

Herndon (VA)

Hybrid

USD 144,000 - 194,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer II to embed directly inside a strategic enterprise customer, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems with the customer team.

You’ll own features from requirements to production deployment, delivering end-to-end AI workstreams and coaching peers on high-quality code. The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

Qualifications

3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Experience in a highly agile environment.
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.
US government security clearance of top secret or above.

Responsibilities

Embed within customer engineering teams. Work with customers, stakeholders, and peers to understand the business and customer value of the systems you build.
Build production AI applications. Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows.
Own production for your workstream. Be a significant contributor to the full software development lifecycle.
Mentor and uplift. Actively mentors and trains new team members on how systems are constructed and operated.
Accelerate customer adoption. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption within your customer engagement.