3 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer AI engagements.
- Design and build production-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Define testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, observability standards, incident response playbooks, and production-readiness criteria.
- Create reusable architectures, engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that scale customer delivery and the FDE practice.
- 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%.
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 as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- 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 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: AWS services experience.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: customer-facing technical project leadership or external stakeholder relationship management.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance, including 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, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Benefits include 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
- The role requires 30–50% travel.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, career development resources, and employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups are offered.
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.