Amazon
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +7 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Seattle, WA
Arlington, VA
Bellevue, WA
New York, NY
Herndon, VA
Mountain View, CA
San Francisco, 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 is preferred.
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems, while creating reusable engineering practices and delivering customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture across services and teams.
- Build scalable production AI systems and define operational standards, evaluations, testing, observability, and incident response.
- 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 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 with AWS Services or enterprise-scale AI/ML applications.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go; complex customer production systems 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)
Tools
AWS Services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG pipelines
AI focus
Designs, builds, deploys, and operates production AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, decision intelligence, evaluation frameworks, and agentic development.
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