3 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex customer AI engagements.
- Design and build production-scale AI systems, 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 architectures, engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that scale the FDE practice and reduce customer time-to-value.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers, contribute to interviews and hiring, and coach others on system design, customer engagement, and production operations.
- Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
- Travel 30–50% for customer engagements.
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 leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, 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 AI tools such as evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Experience as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
- Experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments.
- Experience with AWS services, React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships.
- Preferred 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
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, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units may be included in the compensation package.
- Role is based in listed U.S. locations and requires 30–50% travel.
- AWS provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, affinity groups, inclusion events, 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.