Amazon
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
$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 for 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 is preferred.
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while shaping technical strategy and reusable engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Lead architecture and delivery of complex customer AI programs, from foundational design through enterprise-scale deployment.
- Set production standards and operational mechanisms, including testing, observability, evaluation, and incident response.
- Mentor engineers, develop reusable patterns and platforms, 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 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, and using AI tools such as evaluation 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 project experience is also listed.
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
Architects and delivers production AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms, AI agents, evaluation frameworks, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
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