Forward-Deployed Engineering Manager: AI Delivery Leader

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Sign-on bonus

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead a pod of FDEs embedded in strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery and engineering quality for AI systems.

You will guide technical direction, drive production excellence, and coach engineers, while balancing customer outcomes with people development and AWS standards. Expect 30–50% travel and cross-functional collaboration with customer leaders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience 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. Own delivery across one or more customer engagements. Staff and structure the team for optimal customer coverage. Define execution cadences and ensure consistent engineering quality across active programs. Requires 30–50% travel.
• Guide technical direction. Provide technical oversight for customer AI programs within your scope. Review architecture decisions and ensure alignment with customer needs and AWS best practices. Resolve technical blockers and elevate strategically when needed.
• Own production excellence for your team. Ensure operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production readiness criteria are met for AI systems your team builds. Drive improvements that raise the operational bar within your scope.
• Build and develop the team. Hire, develop, and retain FDE talent. Coach junior FDEs toward independence and career growth. Drive performance management and create development plans. Contribute to hiring bar and calibration standards.
• Accelerate customer adoption. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption within your customer engagements. Ensure learnings are codified into reusable patterns and fed back into the broader FDE practice.

Skills

Engineering management

Software development

Agile environments

AI/ML deployment

Leadership communication

AI agents

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead a pod of FDEs embedded in strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery and engineering quality for AI systems.

You will guide technical direction, drive production excellence, and coach engineers, while balancing customer outcomes with people development and AWS standards. Expect 30–50% travel and cross-functional collaboration with customer leaders.