# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly inside a strategic enterprise customer to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems alongside the customer's engineering team. FDEs write production-grade software and own outcomes end-to-end, from prototype through enterprise-scale deployment combining the technical rigor of an AWS SDE with the urgency and ownership required to deliver measurable customer business outcomes. They create reusable architectures, patterns, and engineering mechanisms that scale the entire FDE practice. Key job responsibilities Embed within customer engineering teams. Understand the customer's business processes, technical architecture, and operational constraints. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable AI-enabled production systems. Requires 30 - 50% travel. Build production AI applications. Design and develop production-grade software powering AI and agentic workflows - orchestration layers for multi-agent systems, retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, decision intelligence. Integrate foundation models, customer data sources, APIs, and existing applications into cohesive AI experiences. Optimize for latency, reliabil

- **Id**: 3789960
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-forward-deployed-engineer-aws-forward-deployed-engineering-6>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States, Seattle, United States, Arlington, United States, New York, United States, Palo Alto, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T11:25:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7219
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 1-10
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4621
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.891
- **Repost share**: 0.002
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 193300
- **Max**: 261500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 261500

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T06:04:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 16,768 · green card filings: 56; Filings 12m: 16768; Filings prev 12m: 16262; Green card filings 12m: 56

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T13:24:48Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 261500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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