1 day ago
Herndon, VA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$200k - $271k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture across the most complex, highest-stakes customer AI engagements.
- Build production-grade AI systems, multi-agent orchestration frameworks, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms, and reusable reference architectures.
- Write and review code while establishing engineering standards, operational mechanisms, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness criteria.
- Identify portfolio-level opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable accelerators and platforms.
- Influence AWS product roadmaps through cross-customer engineering insights.
- Guide senior technical talent, participate in performance evaluations, interviews, promotion assessments, and hiring-bar calibration.
- Represent the FDE practice with AWS VP-level leadership and customer C-suite executives.
- Travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale production systems in customer-facing or enterprise environments.
- Experience building production AI or ML platforms used across multiple products or customers.
- Experience with enterprise-scale agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, or AI system governance.
- Current, active US Government Top Secret or higher security clearance; after starting, the candidate must obtain and maintain TS/SCI with polygraph or a commensurate agency-specific clearance.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executives or clients.
- Experience engaging SVP, VP, or C-suite stakeholders.
- Preferred master's degree or higher in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience creating reusable architectures or platforms adopted across an organization.
- Experience defining technical strategy and engineering standards as a principal engineer or technical lead influencing multi-team decisions.
- Experience influencing product roadmaps through engineering insights.
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.
- Work-life flexibility, employee affinity groups, inclusion events, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- Position is based in Arlington or Herndon, Virginia, or 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.