Amazon

Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

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2 days ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
  • Design and build production-scale AI architectures, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
  • Define operational standards, evaluation frameworks, production-readiness criteria, testing strategies, observability standards, and incident response playbooks.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that improve the effectiveness of the FDE practice.
  • Mentor junior FDEs, coach engineers on system design and customer engagement, and contribute to interviewing and hiring.
  • Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and deliver measurable customer business outcomes.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Experience with AI tools including evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Business-level Japanese and basic-level English.
  • Preferred: experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments.
  • Preferred: experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships.

Benefits

  • Requires 30–50% travel.
  • AWS offers work-life flexibility and work-life harmony.
  • Employees have access to inclusive affinity groups, company-sponsored inclusion events, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-advancing resources.

Tech Stack

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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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