Senior AI Production Engineer - Forward Deployed

Amazon Inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with enterprise customers, designing and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams. You own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice.

You will lead multi-workstream AI programs, define production-ready standards, and mentor junior engineers while driving engineering excellence and customer value across engagements.

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).
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
• Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries.
• Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy.
• Requires 30–50% travel.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Architecture design

AI/ML proficiency

Mentorship

Technical communication

Production AI systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with enterprise customers, designing and running AI-powered production systems alongside customer teams. You own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, and create reusable architectures that scale the FDE practice.

You will lead multi-workstream AI programs, define production-ready standards, and mentor junior engineers while driving engineering excellence and customer value across engagements.