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 in designing, building, deploying, and operating production-scale AI systems, while creating reusable engineering practices and driving customer outcomes.
What you'll do
- Own technical strategy and delivery for complex customer AI programs, including architecture decisions across services and organizations.
- Build and operate production AI systems; establish evaluation, testing, observability, incident-response, and readiness standards.
- 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 mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team; communicating technical concepts to varied 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 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
Architects, builds, deploys, and operates production AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval, decision intelligence, and AI evaluation and agent tooling.
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