Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
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An AWS Forward Deployed Engineer II embeds directly inside strategic enterprise customers to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems end-to-end — retrieval pipelines, agentic workflows, API orchestration, and data integrations on AWS — while owning production operations, CI/CD, and mentoring teammates. Involves 30–50% travel.
A Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to independently design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team. FDE IIs write production-grade software and own delivery of complete AI workstreams end-to-end — from requirements gathering through production deployment — combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business ou…
