Amazon
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
Bellevue, WA
New York, NY
Herndon, VA
East Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in each of the three stated software development, programming, and systems design/architecture areas; 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment is preferred.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to architect, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while leading technical delivery and creating reusable engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture decisions across services and organizations.
- Build and operate scalable production AI systems; define evaluation, testing, observability, incident response, and readiness standards.
- Mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns and accelerators, and identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience and 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team leader; communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale, and using AI tools including eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale.
- Experience with AWS services; React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go; customer-facing technical projects; or 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
Pay
USD 193,300.00 - 261,500.00 annually (base salary); USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG pipelines
AI focus
Leads customer AI programs and builds production-scale agentic systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, and decision intelligence; establishes evaluation and operational frameworks.
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