Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software development experience (non-internship)
  • 5+ years programming experience with at least one software language
  • 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, focusing on design patterns, reliability, and scaling
  • Experience as a mentor, technical lead, or engineering team leader
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders
  • Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; experience with AI agents is a plus
  • Familiarity with AI tools such as evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and prompt engineering

Nice to Haves

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • Experience working with AWS services
  • Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale
  • Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with strong ownership and urgency
  • Experience architecting and delivering complex, multi-component systems in customer production environments
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
  • Experience leading customer-facing technical projects or managing external stakeholder relationships
  • 3+ years working in Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environments

What You'll Be Doing

  • Lead technical delivery across complex, multi-workstream AI customer engagements, owning strategy and execution with 30–50% travel
  • Architect and build scalable production AI systems including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, and decision intelligence platforms
  • Establish operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production readiness criteria to ensure AI system health and reliability
  • Define engineering patterns, contribute to hiring processes, and mentor junior engineers to increase team effectiveness
  • Accelerate customer transformation by identifying opportunities to expand AI adoption and creating reusable platforms and accelerators

Perks and Benefits

  • Supportive work-life balance with flexible working culture
  • Inclusive team culture promoting diversity, curiosity, and collaboration with employee-led affinity groups and inclusion events
  • Mentorship, continuous knowledge sharing, and career growth opportunities
  • Opportunity to work at AWS, the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform
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