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
Embeds with enterprise customers to architect, build, and operate production AI systems, lead technical delivery, and create reusable engineering practices.
What you'll do
- Lead technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture decisions across services and teams.
- Build and oversee production AI systems, setting operational standards, evaluation frameworks, and production-readiness practices.
- 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 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, and with 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 enterprise-scale AI/ML applications.
- Experience with AWS services; React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go; or leading 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); 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 the development and production deployment of AI-powered enterprise systems, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval systems, decision intelligence, evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.
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