Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
Amazon Web ServicesSeattle, WA, USAFull-timeForward Deployment Engineering$168,100 – $227,400 USDPosted Today
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A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at AWS embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team, writing production-grade software and owning outcomes end-to-end from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment.
What you'll do:
- Lead technical delivery across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs (30–50% travel).
- Architect and build production AI systems at scale: multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms.
- Own production excellence: evaluation frameworks, observability standards and production readiness criteria.
- Define engineering patterns, mentor junior FDEs and contribute to hiring.
- Create accelerators and reusable platforms that cut time-to-value, and feed learnings back into AWS services.
Basic qualifications include 5+ years of professional software development, 5+ years leading design/architecture of systems, and experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale.
Full details and application on the official Amazon careers page.