Description
Amazon is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with strategic enterprise customers and define technical strategy, engineering standards, and reusable architectures for AI-powered production systems at scale. The role leads complex multi-workstream software delivery, builds production AI systems and reference architectures, establishes operational standards, and influences customer transformation and AWS product roadmaps. Candidates must be United States citizens, hold an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, and have extensive software development, large-scale production systems, AI/ML platform, and enterprise agentic workflow experience. The position offers base salaries of $200,000–$270,600 USD annually in Denver, Arlington, and Seattle, and $220,000–$297,700 USD annually in New York.
