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Base Salary
$168k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs and make architecture decisions spanning services and organizational boundaries.
- Design, build, deploy, and operate production 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 for AI systems.
- Develop reusable engineering patterns and accelerators that improve customer AI adoption and reduce time to value.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and help scale the FDE practice.
- Communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- US citizenship and a current, active US Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or higher.
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team lead.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Experience with AWS services and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale is preferred.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go is preferred.
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships is preferred.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
- At least 3 years of experience in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment is preferred.
Benefits
- Amazon offers health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and other listed wellness and family-support benefits.
- The role is available in Denver, Jessup, New York, Arlington, Herndon, and Seattle.
- The position requires up to 25% travel.
- Application deadline: November 10, 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.