2 months ago
Arlington, VA, USA +3 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$144k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed directly within customer engineering teams and understand their business processes, architectures, and operational constraints.
- Translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems.
- Design and develop production AI applications, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers, and data integrations.
- Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences optimized for latency, reliability, and cost.
- Contribute across scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance.
- Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, and application services and resolve root causes.
- Implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD practices to maintain healthy AI systems.
- Mentor and train new team members and provide meaningful code review feedback.
- Create reusable patterns and accelerators, improve team software and processes, and identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of experience in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
- Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with agentic and spec-driven development; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Current, active US Government TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
- Preferred experience with AWS services and customer production environments.
- Preferred experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production.
- Preferred background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency.
- Preferred experience with React, TypeScript, Python, or Go.
- Preferred experience interfacing with customers, leading technical projects with external stakeholders, and scaling end-to-end production systems.
Benefits
- The role requires 30–50% travel.
- Amazon offers health, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- AWS provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career development resources, flexible work-life support, and employee-led inclusion groups and events.
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.