Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Overview

In this role you embed with enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and operate AI-powered production systems. You collaborate with customer teams to translate business needs into technical AI-driven solutions, delivering end-to-end software within a fast-paced, high-ownership environment. You mentor peers, codify reusable patterns, and drive adoption of AI across engagements. You thrive on complex problems, strong operational excellence, and shaping the architecture for scalable, production-ready AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams and translate business needs into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems
• Build production-grade software powering AI workflows including retrieval pipelines, automation, and API orchestration
• Own the full software lifecycle for your workstream: scoping, design, coding, testing, deployment, operations, maintenance
• Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, and services; implement monitoring, guardrails, and CI/CD
• Mentor and train new team members; contribute to code reviews with thoughtful feedback
• Identify opportunities to accelerate customer AI adoption and codify reusable patterns for future deployments

Key requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship software development experience
• 2+ years in Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environments
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience with agentic and spec-driven development (AI agents a plus)
• Experience with AI tools: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering

• effective communication with diverse stakeholders
• mentorship and knowledge sharing
• problem-solving under ambiguity
• React
• TypeScript
• Python

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