Amazon
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
$168K–$262K
Boston, MA +4 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 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 is preferred.
About the job
Embeds with enterprise customers to architect, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems while leading technical delivery and creating reusable engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture across services and organizational boundaries.
- Define operational standards, evaluations, testing, observability, and incident response to maintain production AI systems.
- 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 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 leader, and communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale, plus 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 services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG pipelines
AI focus
Leads customer-facing development and production operation of AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms, agentic development, and AI evaluation.
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