Senior AI Production Architect (Forward Deployed)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems and owning outcomes end-to-end alongside customer engineers.

You will write production-grade software, craft scalable architectures, and drive multi-workstream delivery. This role requires travel (30–50%), deep technical leadership, and the ability to translate business needs into reliable, enterprise-grade solutions within AWS’s AI and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus).
• 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.
• Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries.
• Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy.
• Requires 30–50% travel.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Design the foundational architectures — multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms — for the most complex customer engagements.
• Drive clarity where the business problem or technology approach is not fully defined.
• Own production excellence across workstreams.
• Scale the team's effectiveness.
• Accelerate customer transformation.

Skills

Production-grade software

AI systems design

Mentorship

Leadership

Multi-workstream delivery

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 strategic enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems and owning outcomes end-to-end alongside customer engineers.

You will write production-grade software, craft scalable architectures, and drive multi-workstream delivery. This role requires travel (30–50%), deep technical leadership, and the ability to translate business needs into reliable, enterprise-grade solutions within AWS’s AI and