Amazon
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA
New York, NY
East Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 5+ years in software development, programming, and system design or architecture; 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 build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while creating reusable engineering patterns for AWS.
What you'll do
- Translate customer problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems; integrate models, data, APIs, and applications.
- Own systems from design through production operations, including troubleshooting, monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and reliability mechanisms.
- Accelerate customer AI adoption, codify reusable architectures, mentor engineers, and contribute practices and components back to AWS.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development and 5+ years programming in at least one language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; experience with 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
193,300.00 - 261,500.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 184,900.00 - 250,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary); 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG
AI focus
Build and operate production AI applications and agentic workflows, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, evaluations, guardrails, and prompt engineering.
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