Senior AI Field Deployment Engineer

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 to embed with enterprise customers in the Washington, D.C. region, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, write production-grade software, and scale patterns that serve multiple projects across the FDE practice. Travel 30–50% is expected.

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 of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Experience leading agentic development at production scale (AI a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams and translate business problems into scalable AI systems.
• Build production AI applications powering AI and agentic workflows with scalable architectures.
• Own production from design through rollout, with monitoring, testing, and CI/CD.
• Accelerate customer transformation by codifying reusable patterns and reference architectures.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to AWS AI and forward deployment best practices.

Skills

Software development

Mentoring

Communication

AI production systems

Agentic development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers in the Washington, D.C. region, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, write production-grade software, and scale patterns that serve multiple projects across the FDE practice. Travel 30–50% is expected.