Senior AI Production Architect & Delivery Lead

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Bellevue (WA); 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, design and deploy AI-powered production systems, and own outcomes end-to-end. You will influence architecture, drive multi-workstream delivery, and accelerate AI adoption across customer engagements.

The role emphasizes hands-on software production, mentorship, and establishing patterns that scale the FDE practice within AWS, with substantial travel expected across engagements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of scalable systems.
• Experience mentoring or tech leadership.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to stakeholders.
• Experience with AI tools, eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Own production excellence across workstreams.
• Scale the team's effectiveness.
• Accelerate customer transformation.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

AI tools

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, design and deploy AI-powered production systems, and own outcomes end-to-end. You will influence architecture, drive multi-workstream delivery, and accelerate AI adoption across customer engagements.

The role emphasizes hands-on software production, mentorship, and establishing patterns that scale the FDE practice within AWS, with substantial travel expected across engagements.