Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Requirements

• 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

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Experience building production AI or ML applications, including agentic workflows
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfort working in customer-facing environments

What You'll Be Doing

• Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand the customer's business processes, technical architecture, and operational constraints.
• Build production AI applications. Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows.
• Own production. Take systems from design through production rollout and operationalization.
• Accelerate customer transformation. Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption across customer workflows.
• Build and maintain internal AI tools and customer-facing assets and AI-enabled products.
• Route field signal into the closed-loop product feedback mechanism.
• Raise the bar. Mentor engineers. Contribute to AWS engineering best practices for AI and forward deployment.

Perks and Benefits

• Amazon is an equal opportunities employer and values diversity.
• Protecting privacy and security is a top priority for Amazon.
• Empowering culture that encourages delivering the best results for customers.
• Workplace accommodation or adjustments available if needed.