2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer AI engagements and multiple workstreams.
- Architect and build enterprise-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, and incident-response playbooks for production AI systems.
- Create reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that reduce customer time-to-value.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers and contribute to interviewing, hiring, system design coaching, and engineering excellence standards.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and feed engagement learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
- Travel 30–50% for customer engagements.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years of leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a technical lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience using AWS services and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- 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 in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
- Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units in addition to base salary.
- Requires 30–50% travel.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.