Amazon
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY
East Palo Alto, CA
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 5+ years in software development and programming; 5+ years leading design or architecture. Preferred: 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while creating reusable architectures and engineering practices for AWS.
What you'll do
- Translate customer needs into scalable AI-enabled production systems; build and integrate AI applications and agentic workflows.
- Own production rollout and operations, including incident response, monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, testing, and reliability.
- Mentor engineers, identify customer AI adoption opportunities, and develop reusable patterns and reference architectures.
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 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; or customer-facing technical projects.
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
Builds and operates production AI applications and agentic workflows, integrating foundation models and customer data; uses evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, monitoring, and guardrails.
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