Amazon

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government

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2 months ago
Arlington, VA, USA +3 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
  • Architect and build enterprise-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
  • Define testing, evaluation, observability, production-readiness, and incident-response standards for AI systems.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that improve delivery across the FDE practice.
  • Mentor junior FDEs and contribute to interviewing, hiring, system design coaching, and customer engagement coaching.
  • Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Travel up to 25%.

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 reliable and scalable new and existing systems.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Current, active US government TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
  • 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 evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, AWS Services experience, enterprise-scale AI/ML application experience, startup or founder experience, complex customer production delivery, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, customer-facing technical project leadership, and 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall package.
  • Work requires up to 25% travel and is based in the listed US locations.

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Forward Deployed
Amazon

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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