Senior AI Forward Deployed Engineer – Enterprise Production

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers and lead the design, build, deployment, and operation of AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice. The role requires leading multi-workstream delivery, mentoring junior FDEs, and driving AI adoption across customer engagements while maintaining active TS/SCI clearance

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher).
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (AI a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and define architecture strategy.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale for enterprise engagements.
• Own production excellence by defining testing, observability, and incident-response standards.
• Scale the team's effectiveness by defining patterns, mentoring, and participating in hiring.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable accelerators and expanding AI adoption.

Skills

Mentorship

Leadership

Security clearance

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 to embed with enterprise customers and lead the design, build, deployment, and operation of AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice. The role requires leading multi-workstream delivery, mentoring junior FDEs, and driving AI adoption across customer engagements while maintaining active TS/SCI clearance