Senior AI Systems Architect & Field Deployment Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and involves architecture decisions across services, production-grade software, and measurable customer outcomes. The position emphasizes ownership from prototype to enterprise deployment, with opportunities to shape reusable architectures and scale the FDE practice, while

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.
• Current, active US Government Security Clearance of TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• 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

• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Own production excellence across workstreams.
• Scale the team's effectiveness.
• Accelerate customer transformation.

Skills

Software development

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS Services

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems.

The role requires TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance and involves architecture decisions across services, production-grade software, and measurable customer outcomes. The position emphasizes ownership from prototype to enterprise deployment, with opportunities to shape reusable architectures and scale the FDE practice, while