2 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $262k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
- 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, and production-readiness criteria.
- Create incident response playbooks and drive reliability and operational improvements for AI systems.
- Develop reusable engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that improve customer time-to-value.
- Mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers and coach others on system design, customer engagement, and production operations.
- Contribute to interviewing, hiring, engineering standards, and feedback into AWS services and the FDE practice.
- Travel 30–50% for customer engagements.
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 as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- 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 including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Preferred: experience architecting complex multi-component systems in customer production environments and leading customer-facing technical projects.
- Preferred: experience with AWS services, React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Amazon provides health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Benefits include an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The role requires 30–50% travel.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, career development resources, and inclusive employee affinity groups are offered.
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.