Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Core
Embed within strategic enterprise customer engineering teams to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems and agentic workflows end-to-end.
Role type
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/ML Systems)
Builds
Production-grade AI applications, orchestration layers for multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, and workflow automation.
Domain
Cloud Computing / Artificial Intelligence / Enterprise Software
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production software development, System design and architecture, AI agent development, RAG pipelines, Prompt engineering, Technical mentorship, Stakeholder communication
Preferred skills
AWS Services, Python/Node.js/C#, Agile methodology, Enterprise AI/ML deployment, Startup founder experience, Customer-facing technical project leadership
Technologies
AWS, Python, Node.js, C#, C++, RAG, Multi-agent systems
Responsibilities
Embed in customer teams to translate business problems into scalable AI systems; Build and optimize production AI applications for latency, reliability, and security; Own production rollout, incident troubleshooting, and operational mechanisms; Accelerate customer transformation by codifying reusable patterns; Mentor engineers and contribute best practices back to AWS.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities