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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Amazon· AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
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East Palo Alto, Boston, New York, Arlington, Seattle$193.3k - $261.5kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds inside a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team, delivering measurable customer business outcomes and contributing to AWS engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

  • Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand the customer's business processes, technical architecture, and operational constraints. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems. Requires 30 – 50% travel.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders
  • Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale (developing AI agents a plus)
  • Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

Skills

Required:Software development
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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