Senior AI FDE, AWS – Enterprise Production AI (Gov)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Job summary
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic customer and deliver AI-powered production systems end-to-end. You will design architectures, write production-grade software, and own outcomes from prototype to deployment.
The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher), plus travel up to 25% as needed. You will mentor engineers and scale the FDE practice.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming with at least one programming language.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture of systems.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or engineering team lead.
- Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
- Experience leading AI-enabled production-scale development.
- Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and set strategy for AI programs.
- Architect and build production AI systems at enterprise scale.
- Define production readiness criteria and observability standards.
- Define engineering patterns and mentor junior FDEs.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and accelerate value delivery.
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Job description
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic customer and deliver AI-powered production systems end-to-end. You will design architectures, write production-grade software, and own outcomes from prototype to deployment.
The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher), plus travel up to 25% as needed. You will mentor engineers and scale the FDE practice.
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