Senior AI Production Architect - FDE for US Gov

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's team. You write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment.

The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. You will shape architecture across multi-workstream programs, mentor junior engineers, and drive measurable

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements. Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale: multi-agent orchestration and enterprise retrieval systems.
• Own production excellence across workstreams. Define operational standards and production-readiness criteria.
• Scale the team's effectiveness. Define engineering patterns and mentor junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and create reusable accelerators.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Team leadership

Mentoring

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with a strategic enterprise to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's team. You write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment.

The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. You will shape architecture across multi-workstream programs, mentor junior engineers, and drive measurable