Amazon

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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24 hours ago
Singapore, SingaporeSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer AI engagements.
  • Design and build enterprise-scale AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
  • Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, incident-response playbooks, and production-readiness criteria.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, accelerators, and platforms that scale the FDE practice and reduce customer time-to-value.
  • Mentor junior FDEs, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and coach engineers on system design, customer engagement, and production operations.
  • Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and share learnings with AWS services and the FDE practice.
  • Travel 30–50% for customer engagements.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years leading design or architecture for new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a technical 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; experience developing AI agents 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: founder, engineering lead, or startup-builder background 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 flexibility.
  • Employees have access to mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
  • AWS supports employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups and inclusion events.
  • 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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