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Base Salary
$168k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery, strategy, and execution across complex customer AI engagements.
- Architect and build production-scale AI systems, 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 engineering patterns and accelerators that improve the FDE practice and reduce customer time-to-value.
- Contribute to interviewing and hiring and mentor junior FDEs into independent contributors.
- Lead customer-facing technical work with up to 25% travel.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with one or more software programming languages.
- At least 5 years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
- Active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility or higher.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale.
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred experience with AWS services and enterprise-scale AI/ML application deployment.
- Preferred experience with 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 health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Inclusive culture, employee affinity groups, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Position is available in Denver, Colorado; Jessup, Maryland; New York, New York; Arlington or Herndon, Virginia; and Seattle, Washington, with up to 25% travel.
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.