Senior AI Production Engineer - Forward Deployed

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

East Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 193,000 - 262,000

Full time

22 hours ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) who embeds with strategic enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside their engineering teams.

FDEs write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business outcomes.

Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language.
5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (AI a plus).

Responsibilities

Embed within customer engineering teams and translate business problems into scalable AI systems.
Build production AI applications and integrate data sources, APIs, and existing apps.
Own production by designing, deploying, and operationalizing systems with monitoring and guardrails.
Accelerate customer transformation by codifying reusable patterns and reference architectures.
Mentor engineers and contribute to AWS engineering best practices for AI.