Forward Deployment Engineering Manager, FDE

A Forward Deployed Engineering Manager at AWS leads a pod of FDEs embedded within strategic enterprise customers, owning delivery execution, engineering quality and team development. FDE Managers lead 5–15 engineers, own technical delivery across one or more concurrent customer engagements, and represent the FDE team to customer engineering leaders and AWS stakeholders.

What you'll do:

• Lead FDE pod delivery across customer engagements, staffing and structuring the team (30–50% travel).
• Guide technical direction: review architecture decisions and resolve technical blockers for customer AI programs.
• Own production excellence: operational standards, evaluation frameworks and production readiness for the AI systems your team builds.
• Hire, develop and retain FDE talent; coach junior FDEs and drive performance management.
• Accelerate customer AI adoption and codify learnings into reusable patterns.

Basic qualifications include 3+ years of engineering team management, 7+ years of professional software development, and experience building or deploying AI/ML applications in production at scale.

Full details and application on the official Amazon careers page.