Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Embed directly inside strategic enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside their engineering teams, owning outcomes end-to-end from prototype to enterprise-scale deployment.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/ML Systems)
Builds
Production-grade AI systems, multi-agent orchestration platforms, enterprise retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms for large-scale customer engagements.
Domain
Cloud Computing / Enterprise AI / Large Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Leading design and architecture of new and existing systems, mentoring technical teams, communicating technical concepts to senior stakeholders, leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale, experience with AI tools (eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering), building reusable architectures and patterns, defining operational standards and production readiness criteria.
Preferred skills
Experience with AWS Services, building or deploying AI/ML applications at enterprise production scale, background as a founder or startup builder, architecting complex multi-component systems in customer production environments, proficiency in React, TypeScript, Python, and/or Go, leading customer-facing technical projects, working in Agile or rapidly scaling environments.
Technologies
AWS Services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, RAG pipelines, AI agent tooling
Responsibilities
Lead technical delivery and strategy for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs; design foundational architectures for enterprise-scale AI systems; define operational standards and evaluation frameworks for AI production; mentor junior engineers and drive engineering excellence; identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and create reusable accelerators.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
