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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Amazon· AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
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Hybrid (Boston, MA), Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (New York, NY), Hybrid (East Palo Alto, CA), Hybrid (Herndon, VA)$193.3k - $261.5kFull-timePosted yesterday

About the role

A Forward Deployed Engineer embeds inside enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer’s engineering team. Combines AWS SDE rigor with ownership to deliver measurable business outcomes, creating reusable architectures and accelerating AI adoption across customer workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand customer business processes, technical architecture, and constraints. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems. Requires 30 – 50% travel.
  • Build production AI applications. Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows — orchestration layers for multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, decision intelligence. Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, APIs, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences. Optimize for latency, reliability, observability, cost, and security.
  • Own production. Take systems from design through production rollout and operationalization. Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, data pipelines, and application services. Implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD, rollback, resiliency to keep AI systems healthy at scale.
  • Accelerate customer transformation. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer workflows. Codify reusable patterns, accelerators, and reference architectures that benefit future customers and feed back into AWS.
  • Raise the bar. Mentor engineers. Contribute to AWS engineering best practices for AI and forward deployment. Push reusable components and learnings back into AWS products and services.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
  • 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 developmentProgramming languagesSystem design and architectureMentorship/leadership

Benefits

  • Base salary may vary by location and experience.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D, option for additional life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, FSA), 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave.
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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