Senior AI Production Engineer (FDE) – US Govt, TS/SCI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, and running AI-powered production systems. You will own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to deployment, crafting reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice.

The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. You will lead architects across multiple services, drive production readiness, and mentor junior engineers

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture (patterns, reliability, scaling) of systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
• Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (AI a plus).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and own the technical strategy for multi-workstream AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at enterprise scale and define scalability and reliability.
• Define operational standards and production-readiness criteria for AI systems.
• Scale team effectiveness by defining engineering patterns and mentoring junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable accelerators and sharing learnings with AWS services.

Skills

5+ years software development

5+ years programming experience

5+ years design/architecture

Mentor or tech lead

AI tools & prompt engineering

Agentic/production-scale development

Education

Bachelors in CS or equivalent

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, and running AI-powered production systems. You will own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to deployment, crafting reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice.

The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility. You will lead architects across multiple services, drive production readiness, and mentor junior engineers