Senior AI Production Engineer — Forward Deployed

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and operating AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice. You will lead technical delivery across customer engagements, make cross-service architectural decisions, and drive production readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years of leadership in design or architecture of systems.
• Experience mentoring or leading an engineering team.
• Ability to convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled production systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements and AI programs.
• Make architecture decisions spanning services and org boundaries.
• Define and drive production AI systems with reliability and scale.
• Define operational standards and incident readiness playbooks.
• Scale team effectiveness through patterns, interviewing and mentoring.

Skills

5+ years of software development

5+ years of programming

5+ years of design/architecture lead

Mentor / tech lead experience

Communicate to technical & non-tech

Lead agentic & spec-driven development

Experience with AI tools & prompts

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and operating AI-powered production systems.

You will own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice. You will lead technical delivery across customer engagements, make cross-service architectural decisions, and drive production readiness.