Senior AI Production Systems Engineer - Forward Deployed

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers, design and deploy AI-powered production systems, and own outcomes from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment.

You will lead multi-workstream engagements, define technical strategy, and architect scalable AI solutions while mentoring others and driving measurable customer business outcomes. Expect 30–50% travel and close collaboration with customer teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years 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 and own the technical strategy and execution for complex AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale, designing foundational architectures for multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, and decision platforms.
• Own production excellence across workstreams by defining standards, evaluation frameworks, and readiness criteria for AI systems.
• Scale the team's effectiveness by defining engineering patterns, mentoring junior engineers, and guiding customer-facing projects.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Tech leadership

Mentoring

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

AWS services

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers, design and deploy AI-powered production systems, and own outcomes from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment.

You will lead multi-workstream engagements, define technical strategy, and architect scalable AI solutions while mentoring others and driving measurable customer business outcomes. Expect 30–50% travel and close collaboration with customer teams.