Senior AI Production Systems Architect — TS/SCI FDE

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

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems inside customer environments. The role requires a US Citizen with an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and involves leading multi-workstream AI programs, architectural decisions, and hands-on development.

You will mentor engineers, define production standards, and drive acceleration of AI adoption across engagements, aligning with AWS services and customer technology

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.
• Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher).
• 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 and own the technical strategy for multi-workstream AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale, including multi-agent orchestration and enterprise retrieval systems.
• Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness criteria for AI systems and reliability.
• Scale the team's effectiveness by defining engineering patterns and mentoring junior FDEs.
• Accelerate customer transformation by creating reusable accelerators and feeding learnings back into AWS services.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship

Leadership

Agile experience

AI development

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems inside customer environments. The role requires a US Citizen with an active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and involves leading multi-workstream AI programs, architectural decisions, and hands-on development.

You will mentor engineers, define production standards, and drive acceleration of AI adoption across engagements, aligning with AWS services and customer technology