2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
- Make architecture decisions spanning multiple services and organizational boundaries while aligning with customer technology strategies.
- Design 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, 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 coach teammates on system design, customer engagement, and production operations.
- Contribute to interviews and hiring and drive engineering excellence across the FDE practice.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and feed customer 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 experience leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech 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.
- Preferred: experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Preferred: founder, engineering lead, or startup builder background with high ownership and urgency.
- Preferred: experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments.
- Preferred: experience with AWS services, 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 benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The role supports work-life flexibility and includes mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The position requires 30–50% travel for customer engagements.
- The listed compensation package may also include sign-on payments and restricted stock units, separate from the stated base salary.
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.