2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $298k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and architecture across complex customer engagements, including decisions spanning multiple workstreams, services, and organizational boundaries.
- Build production AI systems and reusable reference architectures, including multi-agent orchestration frameworks, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
- Remain hands-on with high-impact software development and code reviews while setting engineering direction.
- Establish operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness criteria for AI systems across the FDE practice.
- Create accelerators and reusable platforms that expand AI adoption and reduce customer time-to-value across multiple organizations.
- Influence AWS product roadmaps through engineering insights and customer patterns.
- Set engineering excellence standards, handle escalations, guide senior technical talent, and participate in performance evaluations, interviews, hiring calibration, and promotion assessments.
- Represent the FDE practice with AWS VP-level leaders and customer C-suite executives.
- Travel up to 25%.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and a current, active TS/SCI U.S. Government security clearance with Polygraph are required.
- At least 10 years of non-internship professional software development experience is required.
- A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience is required.
- At least 8 years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale production systems in customer-facing or enterprise environments is required.
- Experience building production AI or ML platforms used across multiple products or customers is required.
- Experience with enterprise-scale agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, or AI system governance is required.
- Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences, including executives or clients, is preferred.
- Executive-level engagement experience with SVP, VP, or C-suite stakeholders is preferred.
- A master's degree or above in computer science or equivalent is preferred.
- Experience creating reusable architectures or platforms adopted across an organization is preferred.
- Experience defining technical strategy and engineering standards as a principal engineer or technical lead influencing multi-team decisions is preferred.
- Experience influencing product roadmaps through engineering insights is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and supplemental life plan options.
- Employee Assistance Program, 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 are included in the overall Amazon package.
- The role requires up to 25% travel; no specific remote or office arrangement is stated.
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.