Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Requirements

  • 3+ years of professional, non-internship software development experience
  • 2+ years working in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Experience with agentic and spec-driven development (developing AI agents is a plus)
  • Experience with AI tools such as evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

Nice to Haves

  • Experience working in customer production environments
  • Experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production
  • Background as a founder, engineering lead, or startup builder with high ownership and urgency
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
  • Experience interfacing with customers or leading technical projects with external stakeholders
  • Experience working with teams that build and scale end-to-end production systems
  • Experience with AWS services

What You'll Be Doing

  • Embed within customer engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems
  • Translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems
  • Build production AI applications including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration, and data integration
  • Solve complex problems with clarity and design simple, effective solutions
  • Own the full software development lifecycle including scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance
  • Troubleshoot production incidents and implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD to keep AI systems healthy
  • Mentor and train new team members, provide code reviews, and promote high-quality coding practices
  • Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption, codify reusable patterns, and improve software and team processes
  • Travel 30–50% to work closely with strategic enterprise customers

Perks and Benefits

  • Inclusive culture that empowers employees to deliver the best results
  • Commitment to diversity and equal opportunity employment
  • Workplace accommodations available for applicants with disabilities
  • Strong focus on privacy and data security throughout the hiring process
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