Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Production AI Architect (TS)

Amazon Inc.

Herndon (VA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

23 hours ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to embed with strategic customers, designing and running AI-powered production systems. You will own outcomes end-to-end, write production-grade software, and drive multi-workstream delivery with up to 25% travel.

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility is required. You'll lead architecture decisions, build scalable AI platforms, and mentor junior engineers while shaping reusable accelerators that speed value

Qualifications

5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
5+ years of programming with at least one language.
5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility (or higher).
Experience leading AI agentic development at production scale.
Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead technical delivery across customer AI programs and set the technical strategy.
Architect and build production AI systems at enterprise scale.
Define operational standards and production-readiness criteria for AI.
Scale the team by defining patterns and mentoring FDEs.
Accelerate customer transformation with reusable AI accelerators.