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 (preferred).
About the job
Leads customer-embedded teams to design, build, deploy, and operate production-scale AI systems, while creating reusable engineering practices and accelerating customer AI adoption.
What you'll do
- Own technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture decisions across services and organizations.
- Build production AI systems and establish operational standards, evaluation frameworks, testing, observability, and incident-response practices.
- 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 with at least one 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; 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 enterprise-scale production AI/ML applications.
- Experience with AWS services, React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go; customer-facing technical project leadership is also preferred.
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; USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually base salary; USD 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 annually base salary
Tools
AWS, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG
AI focus
Designs, builds, and operates production AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms, AI evaluations, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
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