5 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI engagements.
- Architect and build production-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, production-readiness criteria, testing strategies, observability standards, and incident-response playbooks.
- Write production-grade software and make architecture decisions spanning multiple services and organizational boundaries.
- Create reusable engineering patterns and accelerators that improve delivery across the FDE practice.
- Mentor junior FDEs, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and help engineers become independent contributors.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and feed engagement learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
- Travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- US citizenship and an active US Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or higher are required.
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience are required.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language are required.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems are required.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead is required.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale is required.
- Experience with AI evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering is required.
- Preferred qualifications include 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred qualifications include experience delivering complex software systems to customers, using AWS services, and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go is preferred.
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships is preferred.
- Three or more years of experience in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The role requires up to 25% travel.
- Amazon provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career development resources, employee affinity groups, and inclusive workplace programs.
- The application deadline is November 1, 2026.
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.