3 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed within customer engineering teams to understand business processes, technical architectures, and operational constraints, with 30–50% travel.
- Design and build production AI applications, agentic workflows, orchestration layers, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, and decision intelligence systems.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, APIs, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences optimized for latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.
- Own systems from design through production rollout and operationalization, troubleshooting incidents across models, distributed systems, data pipelines, and application services.
- Implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, testing, rollback, resiliency, and other operational mechanisms for healthy AI systems at scale.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable patterns, accelerators, components, and reference architectures.
- Mentor engineers and contribute customer learnings and engineering practices back to AWS products and services.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of experience leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring engineers, 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; AI agent development experience 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 background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder 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 of experience in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
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.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the Amazon package.
- The role requires 30–50% travel and is listed for locations in East Palo Alto, Boston, New York, Herndon, and Seattle.
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.