20 days ago
Base Salary
$168k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
- Design and build production-scale multi-agent, enterprise retrieval, and decision-intelligence systems.
- Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing strategies, observability standards, and incident-response playbooks for AI systems.
- Create reusable architectures, engineering patterns, and accelerators that scale the FDE practice and reduce customer time-to-value.
- Mentor junior FDEs, contribute to interviewing and hiring, and help engineers become independent contributors.
- Work directly with customer engineers on designs, production AI features, troubleshooting, code reviews, and enterprise deployments.
- 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 design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader.
- US citizenship and an active US Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility or higher are required; the qualifications also state Top Secret or above, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; experience developing AI agents is a plus.
- Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
- Preferred qualifications include a bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, experience delivering complex software systems to customers, AWS experience, enterprise-scale AI/ML application experience, React, TypeScript, Python, or Go experience, customer-facing technical leadership, and 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance and mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The role offers work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career-development resources, and inclusive employee affinity groups.
- The position requires up to 25% travel and is available in Denver, New York City, Arlington, Herndon, or Seattle.
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.