Amazon
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY
East Palo Alto, CA
Herndon, VA - Experience
- 5+ years in software development, programming, and design or architecture leadership; 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 architect, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while scaling reusable engineering practices and customer adoption.
What you'll do
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, making architecture decisions across services and organizational boundaries.
- Build production-scale AI systems and establish operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing, observability, and incident response practices.
- Mentor engineers, create reusable engineering 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 with at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead, and 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 project experience.
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 services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG pipelines
AI focus
Architect, build, evaluate, deploy, and operate production-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms, and AI agents.
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