Senior Forward-Deployed AI Production Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside their engineering teams.

You will write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, creating scalable architectures and reusable patterns that lift the entire FDE practice.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years 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 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

• Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand the customer's business processes and technical architecture.
• Build production AI applications powering AI and agentic workflows.
• Own production from design through rollout and opertionalization.
• Accelerate customer transformation by expanding AI adoption across workflows.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to AWS engineering best practices.

Skills

Software development

Mentorship

AI/ML knowledge

Communication

Agile

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic enterprise customers, designing, building, deploying, and running AI-powered production systems alongside their engineering teams.

You will write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment, creating scalable architectures and reusable patterns that lift the entire FDE practice.