Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Core
Embed directly inside strategic enterprise customer engineering teams to independently design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems end-to-end.
Role type
Senior IC Forward Deployed Engineer (AI/ML)
Builds
Production-grade AI applications, agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, and API orchestration layers for enterprise customers.
Domain
Cloud computing, Artificial Intelligence, Government contracting
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Production software development, AI agent development, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, system design, code review, incident troubleshooting, CI/CD implementation
Preferred skills
AWS services, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, startup founder experience, customer-facing technical leadership
Technologies
AWS, Python, Go, TypeScript, React, RAG, AI agents
Responsibilities
Translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled systems; build and optimize production AI applications; own the full software development lifecycle for assigned workstreams; mentor new team members and conduct code reviews; troubleshoot production incidents and improve operational processes.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC