Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Amazon Web ServicesHerndon, VA; Arlington, VA; Seattle, WA; New York, NY; East Palo Alto, CA (USA)Full-timeAWS Forward Deployed Engineering$143,700 – $223,600 USD / year (varies by location)Posted Today
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A Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II) at AWS embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to independently design, build, deploy and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team, writing production-grade software and owning complete AI workstreams end-to-end, from requirements gathering through production deployment.
What you'll do:
- Embed within customer engineering teams, understand their business processes, architecture and constraints, and translate requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems (30–50% travel).
- Build production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows: retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration layers and data integration.
- Own production for your workstream across scoping, design, code, testing, deployment and maintenance; implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails and CI/CD.
- Mentor and train new team members.
Requires 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience, experience with agentic and spec-driven development, and AI tooling (eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering).
Full details and application on the official Amazon careers page.