Senior AI Production Engineer - Forward Deployed

Amazon Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems.

The role blends AWS SDE rigor with ownership of outcomes end-to-end, delivering reusable architectures and scalable patterns to accelerate AI adoption. The FDE leads technical strategy across engagements, writes production-grade software, mentors engineers, and drives production-readiness across multiple workstreams.

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 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.
• US government security clearance of TS/SCI or above.

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: multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
• Own production excellence across workstreams. Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, 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, create reusable accelerators that cut time-to-value.

Skills

Software dev exp

Programming exp

Design/Architecture lead

Mentoring/Tech lead

AI agent development

AI tooling

TS/SCI clearance

Education

B.S. in CS

Active TS/SCI clearance

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with a strategic enterprise customer, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems.

The role blends AWS SDE rigor with ownership of outcomes end-to-end, delivering reusable architectures and scalable patterns to accelerate AI adoption. The FDE leads technical strategy across engagements, writes production-grade software, mentors engineers, and drives production-readiness across multiple workstreams.