Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS)SydneyOn-siteFull-time1 week ago

A Forward Deployed Engineer II embeds within a strategic enterprise customer to independently design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team. The role combines AWS SDE technical rigor with high ownership to deliver measurable customer business outcomes, requiring 30–50% travel. Candidates need 3+ years of professional software development experience and experience with AI tools such as eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, and prompt engineering.

What you'll do

Embed within customer engineering teams and understand business processes, technical architecture, and operational constraints
Translate customer requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled production systems
Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows
Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences
Optimize for latency, reliability, and cost
Contribute across the full software development lifecycle including scoping, design, code, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance
Troubleshoot production incidents across AI models, distributed systems, and application services
Implement monitoring, evaluations, guardrails, and CI/CD
Mentor and train new team members and coach others through code review
Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption and codify reusable patterns and accelerators

What you need

Must-have

Agentic developmentSpec-driven developmentEval frameworksAgent toolingRAG pipelinesPrompt engineeringCI/CDAPI orchestration

Nice-to-have

ReactTypeScriptPythonGoAWSAI/ML applicationsSource control management

Soft skills

CommunicationOwnershipMentoringCoachingCode reviewProblem solvingAutonomy

Forward Deployed EngineerAWSAISoftware DevelopmentAgentic WorkflowsEnterpriseSydneyFull-time

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