Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to design build deploy and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customers engineering team. FDEs write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business outcomes. They create reusable architectures patterns and engineering mechanisms that scale the entire FDE practice.

Key job 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 customers long-term technology strategy. Requires 3050% travel.

Architect and build production AI systems at scale. Design the foundational architectures multi-agent orchestration enterprise retrieval systems decision intelligence platforms for the most complex customer engagements. Drive clarity where neither the business problem nor technology approach is fully defined. Build production systems that handle enterprise-scale traffic and reliability requirements.

Own production excellence across workstreams. Define operational standards evaluation frameworks and production readiness criteria for AI systems across your engagement scope. Establish mechanisms (testing strategies observability standards incident response playbooks) that ensure AI systems remain healthy. Drive operational improvements that raise the bar for the team.

Scale the teams effectiveness. Define engineering patterns contribute to the interview and hiring process and mentor junior FDEs into independent contributors. Coach others on system design customer engagement and production operations. Drive engineering excellence standards within your scope.

Accelerate customer transformation. Identify systemic opportunities to expand AI adoption across the customer organization. Create accelerators and reusable platforms that reduce time-to-value from months to weeks. Feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.

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- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of 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

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience using AWS services
- Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale
- Background as a founder engineering lead or startup builder with high ownership and urgency
- Experience architecting and delivering complex multi-component systems in customer production environments
- Experience with React TypeScript Python and/or Go
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships
- 3 years of experience working in an Agile startup or rapidly scaling environment

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 168100.00 - 227400.00 USD annually

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