Senior AI Production Engineer - Customer-Facing FDE

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing and deploying production AI systems and reusable architectures that scale.

You will own end-to-end outcomes, collaborate with customer engineering teams, and drive architectural decisions that align with long-term technology strategy. This role requires significant travel and a passion for delivering measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture for production systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

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 and mentor junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable platforms.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

AI tooling

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS Services

React/TypeScript/Python/Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing and deploying production AI systems and reusable architectures that scale.

You will own end-to-end outcomes, collaborate with customer engineering teams, and drive architectural decisions that align with long-term technology strategy. This role requires significant travel and a passion for delivering measurable business outcomes.