Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
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, Enterprise Software
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Software development, AI agent development, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, system design, production deployment, code review, stakeholder communication
Preferred skills
Agentic and spec-driven development, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, AWS services, startup environment experience
Technologies
AWS, Python, Go, TypeScript, React, RAG, AI agents
Responsibilities
Embed within customer engineering teams to understand business processes and translate requirements into technical designs; Build production AI applications integrating foundation models and customer data; Own production for workstream including troubleshooting, monitoring, and CI/CD implementation; Mentor and train new team members on system construction and code quality; Accelerate customer adoption by codifying reusable patterns and accelerators.