Senior AI FDE Engineer — Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking aForward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems. You will lead architecture across multiple streams, write production-grade software, and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to deployment.

The role requires US citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, plus the ability to travel up to 25% and operate in a fast-paced, delivery-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of large systems.
• Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher).
• Experience leading AI/agentic development at production scale (AI agents a plus).
• Experience with AWS services and enterprise-scale delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and set technical strategy.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale (multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, decision intelligence).
• Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness criteria for AI systems.

Skills

Software development

Leadership/mentoring

AI/ML delivery experience

Agentic development

Modern language stack (React/TS/Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

RAG pipelines

Prompt engineering

Python

TypeScript

React

Go

Job description

Amazon is seeking aForward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems. You will lead architecture across multiple streams, write production-grade software, and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to deployment.

The role requires US citizenship and active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, plus the ability to travel up to 25% and operate in a fast-paced, delivery-driven environment.