Senior Forward-Deployed AI Systems Architect

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing, building and operating AI-powered systems alongside their teams.

You will own production-scale outcomes, create scalable architectures, and drive deployments from prototype to enterprise readiness in fast-paced settings. The role emphasizes leadership in system design, customer engagement, and hands-on engineering, with travel 30–50%.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery across customer engagements.
• Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
• Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries.
• Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy.
• Architect and build production AI systems at scale.
• Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production readiness criteria for AI systems across your engagement scope.
• Drive engineering excellence standards within your scope.

Skills

Software development

Architecture design

Mentorship / tech lead

Communication to stakeholders

AI production systems

AI tooling & pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS services

React

TypeScript

Python

Go

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with enterprise customers, designing, building and operating AI-powered systems alongside their teams.

You will own production-scale outcomes, create scalable architectures, and drive deployments from prototype to enterprise readiness in fast-paced settings. The role emphasizes leadership in system design, customer engagement, and hands-on engineering, with travel 30–50%.