Forward Deployed Engineering Manager, AWS Government

Salary: $184,900 - 275,200 per year Requirements:

• At least 3 years of engineering team management experience.
• A bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of professional software development experience, excluding internships.
• Current, active U.S. Government TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph; the selected candidate must be a U.S. citizen and maintain this clearance.
• At least 3 years working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders.
• Experience with agentic and specification-driven development; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
• Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in large-scale production environments.
• Preferred: Experience with teams that build and scale end-to-end production systems and with customer production environments.
• Preferred: Experience managing teams in customer-facing or consulting-adjacent engineering roles, or leading teams in a startup, high-growth, or rapidly scaling environment.
• Preferred: Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
• Preferred: Experience managing delivery across multiple concurrent customer programs.
• Preferred: At least 3 years of leadership development and talent management experience.

• Lead delivery across one or more customer engagements, structure staffing for effective customer coverage, establish execution rhythms, and uphold consistent engineering quality.
• Set technical direction for customer AI programs by reviewing architecture choices, aligning solutions with customer needs and AWS best practices, and resolving or strategically escalating technical blockers.
• Ensure the teams AI systems meet operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness criteria, and improve operational practices.
• Hire, coach, develop, and retain FDE team members; support junior engineers growth and independence, manage performance, create development plans, and contribute to hiring and calibration standards.
• Identify ways to broaden AI adoption within customer engagements, capture reusable lessons, and share them with the wider FDE practice.

• AI
• AI Agents
• AWS
• Cloud
• Embedded
• Support
• Python
• React
• TypeScript
• Security
• Web

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We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineering Manager to lead a pod of 5–15 engineers embedded with strategic enterprise customers. The role owns pod-level delivery outcomes, engineering quality, and team development across one or more concurrent engagements, and represents the team to customer engineering leaders and AWS stakeholders. The position requires up to 25% travel. Our team is part of AWS, a broad cloud platform serving customers from startups to large global organizations. We value diverse experiences, work-life harmony, inclusive teams, mentorship, and career development. Compensation varies by location: Denver, Colorado, and Arlington, Virginia, offer an annual base salary range of $184,900–$250,200; Seattle, Washington, offers $184,900–$250,200; and New York, New York, offers $203,400–$275,200. The package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units, with comprehensive benefits such as health coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. The application deadline is October 16, 2026.

last updated 41 week of 2026