Forward-Deployment AI Engineering Lead

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager (FDE Manager) to lead a pod of engineers embedded with strategic enterprise customers.

You will own delivery execution, engineering quality, and the growth of your team, delivering production AI systems that meet customer expectations and uphold AWS standards. You will guide technical direction across one or more engagements, review architecture decisions, resolve blockers, and ensure production readiness.

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 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.
• Staff and structure the team for optimal customer coverage and define execution cadences.
• Provide technical direction and review architecture decisions for customer programs.
• Own production excellence and ensure readiness criteria for AI systems.
• Hire, develop, and retain FDE talent and drive performance management.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate customer adoption and codify learnings into reusable patterns.

Skills

Engineering management

Software development

Agile environments

Technical communication

AI/ML production

Leadership development

Delivery programs

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/Engineering/Math or related)

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager (FDE Manager) to lead a pod of engineers embedded with strategic enterprise customers.

You will own delivery execution, engineering quality, and the growth of your team, delivering production AI systems that meet customer expectations and uphold AWS standards. You will guide technical direction across one or more engagements, review architecture decisions, resolve blockers, and ensure production readiness.