1 day ago
Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical delivery and strategy across complex, multi-workstream customer AI engagements.
- Architect 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 incident-response playbooks for AI systems.
- Establish reusable engineering patterns and mechanisms that improve the effectiveness of the FDE practice.
- Mentor junior FDEs and customer engineers, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and set standards for production-quality code and design.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and create reusable accelerators that reduce time to value.
- Travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- US citizenship and an active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI or higher are required.
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience is required.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language is required.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including reliability and scaling, is required.
- Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader is required.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale is required; developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering is required.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, experience delivering complex software systems to customers, AWS experience, and experience building or deploying enterprise-scale AI/ML applications.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go is preferred.
- Customer-facing technical project leadership or external stakeholder management experience is preferred.
- Three or more years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage.
- Basic Life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, a 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 are included in the compensation package.
- The role requires up to 25% travel.
- The position is available in Denver, Colorado; Jessup, Maryland; Arlington and Herndon, Virginia; and Seattle, Washington.
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.