10 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and delivery 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.
- Create reusable engineering patterns and accelerators that improve delivery speed across the FDE practice.
- Contribute to interviewing and hiring and mentor junior Forward Deployed Engineers.
- Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and feed learnings back into AWS services and the FDE practice.
- Travel up to 25%.
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 reliability and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- Active US Government Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or higher.
- 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, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred: 5+ years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience building complex software systems successfully delivered to customers.
- Preferred: experience with AWS services and building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Preferred: experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
- Preferred: experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships.
- Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and insurance benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, supplemental life plan options, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the Amazon compensation package.
- Work-life flexibility, employee affinity groups, inclusion events, mentorship, and career-development resources are offered.
- The role is located in Denver, Colorado; Jessup, Maryland; New York, New York; Arlington or Herndon, Virginia; or Seattle, Washington, and requires up to 25% travel.
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.