Senior AI Production Engineer, Forward-Deployed

Amazon Web Services (AWS); East Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 262,000; Full time

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 from prototype to enterprise deployment.

You will lead multi-workstream engagements, set architecture direction, ensure production readiness, mentor engineers, and help accelerate customer transformation by delivering scalable AI platforms and reusable patterns.

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)

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 the foundational architectures for the most complex customer engagements.
• Own production excellence across workstreams. Define operational standards and production readiness criteria for AI systems.
• Scale the team's effectiveness. Define engineering patterns, contribute to the interview and hiring process, and mentor junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation. Identify systemic opportunities to expand AI adoption across the customer organization.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Communication

AI/ML

Agentic development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science 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 from prototype to enterprise deployment.

You will lead multi-workstream engagements, set architecture direction, ensure production readiness, mentor engineers, and help accelerate customer transformation by delivering scalable AI platforms and reusable patterns.