2 days ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed within strategic customer engineering teams to understand business processes, technical architectures, requirements, and operational constraints.
- Design and build production-grade AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, and data integrations.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences while optimizing latency, reliability, and cost.
- Own the full software lifecycle for assigned workstreams, including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
- Implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD practices and resolve root causes of production incidents.
- Mentor and train new team members, participate in code reviews, and coach others on producing high-quality software.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and develop reusable patterns and accelerators for future deployments.
- Travel 30–50% as required.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with one or more software programming languages.
- At least 5 years of leading software 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 non-technical audiences.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; AI agent development is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience with AWS services and deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Preferred: experience as a founder, engineering lead, startup builder, or owner of complex customer production systems.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: customer-facing technical project leadership or external stakeholder management experience.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and 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 30–50% travel.
- AWS provides flexible work-life support, inclusion programs, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
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.