Senior AI FDE: Enterprise Production Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing and running AI-powered production systems.

You will own end-to-end outcomes, building reusable architectures and ensuring scalable, production-grade software across multi-workstream engagements. You will travel up to 25% and collaborate directly with customer engineers, mentoring junior FDEs and shaping technical strategy to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher).
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (AI agents a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and set technical strategy for AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at enterprise scale and reliability.
• Define operational standards, testing strategies, and incident response for AI systems.
• Scale the team's effectiveness through patterns, hiring, and mentoring.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable accelerators and feeding learnings back to AWS services.

Skills

Non-internship software development

Programming experience

Design/architecture leadership

Mentor / tech lead

Active TS clearance with SCI

AI agent development experience

AI tooling & pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing and running AI-powered production systems.

You will own end-to-end outcomes, building reusable architectures and ensuring scalable, production-grade software across multi-workstream engagements. You will travel up to 25% and collaborate directly with customer engineers, mentoring junior FDEs and shaping technical strategy to deliver measurable business value.