Amazon

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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7 days ago
Boston, MA, USA +5 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $262k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Embed within customer engineering teams, understand their business and technical constraints, and translate business problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems.
  • Build production AI applications including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, and decision intelligence systems.
  • Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, APIs, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences.
  • Own production rollout and operationalization, including incident troubleshooting, monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, rollback, resiliency, and reliability mechanisms.
  • Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable patterns, accelerators, and reference architectures.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute reusable components, engineering practices, and learnings to AWS.

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 the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
  • Experience mentoring engineers, 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; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
  • 30–50% travel is required.
  • The role is available in East Palo Alto, San Francisco, Boston, New York, Arlington, and Seattle.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
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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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