Senior AI Production Architect for Enterprise Deployments

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and operating AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team.

They write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment. As part of the role, you will create reusable architectures and engineering patterns that scale the FDE practice, drive operational excellence, and mentor junior

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design/architecture for systems.
• Experience as mentor, tech lead, or team leadership.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to varied audiences.
• Experience with production-scale AI development and agent tooling.
• Familiar with eval frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and set architecture strategy.
• Architect and build production AI systems at enterprise scale.
• Define operational standards, tests, and observability for AI systems.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to hiring and patterns.
• Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and build reusable accelerators.

Skills

5+ years dev exp

5+ years programming

5+ years design/architecture

Mentoring / tech lead

Technical communication

Production AI development

AI tools

Education

CS degree or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

AWS services

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and operating AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team.

They write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment. As part of the role, you will create reusable architectures and engineering patterns that scale the FDE practice, drive operational excellence, and mentor junior