3 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer AI engagements.
- Design and build production-scale AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, incident response playbooks, and production-readiness criteria.
- Create reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that reduce customer time-to-value.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers and contribute to interviewing, hiring, and engineering excellence standards.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and feed 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 design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; AI agent development 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.
- Preferred: experience with AWS Services and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Preferred: founder, engineering lead, or startup-builder background; experience delivering complex multi-component systems in customer production environments.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Work-life flexibility, inclusive team culture, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-growth resources.
- The role 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.