Senior AI Production Engineer - Forward Deployed

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

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Arlington, VA seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed inside strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering teams.

You will write production‑grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment, creating reusable architectures and patterns that scale the FDE practice.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• Experience leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex AI programs.
• Make architecture decisions spanning multiple services and boundaries.
• Align technical approach with the customer’s long-term technology strategy.
• Travel 30-50% as required.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.

Skills

Software development

Programming

Leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in Arlington, VA seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed inside strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering teams.

You will write production‑grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment, creating reusable architectures and patterns that scale the FDE practice.