4 days ago
Herndon, VA, USA +4 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $224k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed within strategic customer engineering teams to understand business processes, technical architectures, requirements, and operational constraints.
- Design and build production AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, and data integrations.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications into reliable AI experiences optimized for latency, reliability, and cost.
- Own the software lifecycle for assigned workstreams, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and incident response.
- Implement evaluations, guardrails, and operational improvements for AI systems and resolve root causes of production issues.
- Mentor and train new team members and provide meaningful code review feedback.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and develop reusable deployment patterns and accelerators.
- Travel 30–50% to work directly with customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with agentic and spec-driven development; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred experience with AWS Services and customer production environments.
- Preferred experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production environments.
- Preferred background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
- Prior experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go is preferred.
- Experience interfacing with customers or leading technical projects with external stakeholders is preferred.
- Experience working with teams that build and scale end-to-end production systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
- Work-life flexibility, inclusive employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
- The role is based in listed U.S. locations and requires 30–50% customer travel.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ApplicationsForward 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.