2 months ago
Base Salary
$168k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs across multiple workstreams.
- 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, and incident-response playbooks for AI systems.
- Create reusable architectures, engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that improve delivery across the FDE practice.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and raise engineering excellence standards.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years 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 leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale.
- Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- 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: experience architecting complex customer production systems, leading customer-facing technical projects, or managing external stakeholders.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment, or a background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
- AWS provides flexible work-life support, employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups, inclusion events, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The role requires 30–50% travel and is listed for locations in California, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia, and Washington.
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.