Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer (TS/SCI)

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II to join customer teams and deliver production AI systems end-to-end. You will design, code, deploy, and operate features across AI workflows, with travel up to 50% and high ownership. You’ll mentor peers and influence best practices in scalable systems.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance and a strong background in React/TypeScript/Python/Go, AWS services, and production-grade software development in agile environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or a related field.
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience in a highly agile environment
• Experience with agentic and spec-driven development (developing AI agents a plus)
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering
• US government security clearance of top secret or above
• Experience working with AWS Services
• Experience working in customer production environments
• Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production environments
• Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency
• Prior experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
• Experience interfacing with customers or leading technical projects with external stakeholders
• Experience working with teams that build and scale end-to-end production systems

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams. Translate requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
• Build production AI applications powering AI and agentic workflows.
• Own production for your workstream across the full software lifecycle and troubleshoot incidents.
• Mentor and uplift teammates on high-quality code and best practices.
• Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable patterns and accelerators.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

AI tooling

Prompt engineering

AWS

Communication

Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Startup experience

Production systems

Customer-facing

End-to-end prod

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math or related field

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

AWS

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer II to join customer teams and deliver production AI systems end-to-end. You will design, code, deploy, and operate features across AI workflows, with travel up to 50% and high ownership. You’ll mentor peers and influence best practices in scalable systems.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance and a strong background in React/TypeScript/Python/Go, AWS services, and production-grade software development in agile environments.