Amazon

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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3 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer engagements and multi-workstream AI programs.
  • Design and build production-scale AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
  • Define testing strategies, evaluation frameworks, observability standards, production-readiness criteria, and incident response playbooks.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that improve the effectiveness of the FDE practice.
  • Mentor junior FDEs, coach engineers on system design and customer engagement, contribute to hiring, and drive engineering excellence.
  • Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Travel 30–50% as required for customer engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • 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 AI tools, including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS services and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
  • Preferred: background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
  • Preferred: experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments.
  • 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

  • AWS promotes work-life harmony and workplace flexibility.
  • AWS provides employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
  • Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancement resources are available.
  • The role requires 30–50% travel.

Categories

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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