Senior AI Production Architect & Deployment Leader

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create scalable architectures that extend across services and teams. You will lead architecture decisions, drive operational excellence, mentor junior FDEs, and accelerate customer transformation by delivering reusable platforms and patterns that reduce

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• Minimum 5+ years of programming with at least one language (e.g., Python/TypeScript/Go).
• 5+ years leading design or architecture of systems for production scale.
• Experience mentoring, tech lead, or engineering leadership.
• Experience communicating complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Define operational standards and production readiness criteria for AI systems.
• Scale the team's effectiveness through patterns, hiring, and mentorship.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable accelerators and platforms.

Skills

Architecture design

Production software

AI systems

Mentorship

Stakeholder communication

React/TypeScript/Python/Go

Agile/Startup experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS Services

AI tools & eval frameworks

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create scalable architectures that extend across services and teams. You will lead architecture decisions, drive operational excellence, mentor junior FDEs, and accelerate customer transformation by delivering reusable platforms and patterns that reduce