Amazon

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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24 hours ago
São Paulo, BrazilSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex 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, 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 L4 and L5 FDEs, coach engineers on system design and customer engagement, and contribute to interviewing and hiring.
  • Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer organizations and feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
  • Travel 30–50% as required for customer engagements.

Requirements

  • Experience mentoring, serving as a technical 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, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Experience with AWS services.
  • Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
  • Experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments.
  • Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships.
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
  • Preferred background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
  • Experience working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent preferred.

Benefits

  • AWS offers work-life flexibility and work-life harmony.
  • Employees have access to affinity groups, inclusion events, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
  • The role requires 30–50% travel.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Amazon

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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