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Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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3 days ago
London, United KingdomMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed with strategic enterprise customer engineering teams and translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
  • Design, build, deploy, and operate production AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, and data integrations.
  • Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications while optimizing latency, reliability, and cost.
  • Own the full software development lifecycle, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, maintenance, monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD.
  • Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, and application services and resolve operational root causes.
  • Mentor and train new team members, participate in code reviews, and coach others on high-quality software development.
  • Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • At least 2 years of experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Experience with agentic and spec-driven development; AI agent development is a plus.
  • Experience with AI tools, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Preferred: experience in customer production environments and building or deploying AI/ML applications in production.
  • Preferred: founder, engineering lead, or startup-building background with high ownership and urgency.
  • Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
  • Preferred: customer interfacing, technical project leadership, end-to-end production system development, and AWS services experience.

Benefits

  • Requires 30–50% travel.
  • Amazon states that it is an equal opportunity employer and provides workplace accommodations during the hiring process.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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