Senior AI Production Engineer - Enterprise FDE

Emploive; Boston, Northern (MA, KY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems and driving measurable business outcomes. You will own technical strategy, architecture decisions across multi-workstream programs, and define standards for production readiness with significant travel.

Responsibilities include leading technical delivery, building scalable AI architectures, mentoring engineers, and expanding AI adoption

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.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale. Design multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, and decision platforms for complex engagements.
• Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production readiness criteria for AI systems across engagement scope.
• Scale the team: define patterns, contribute to hiring, and mentor junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating accelerators and reusable platforms to shorten time-to-value.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System architecture

Mentorship / leadership

Technical communication

AI production systems

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing and deploying AI-powered production systems and driving measurable business outcomes. You will own technical strategy, architecture decisions across multi-workstream programs, and define standards for production readiness with significant travel.

Responsibilities include leading technical delivery, building scalable AI architectures, mentoring engineers, and expanding AI adoption