# Sr 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 Lead technical delivery across customer engagements - Own the technical strategy and execution for complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs. Make architecture decisions that span multiple services and organizational boundaries. Align technical approach with the customer's long-term technology strategy. Requires 30-50% travel. Architect and build production AI systems at scale - Design the foundational architectures - multi-agent orchestration, enterprise retrieval systems, decision intelligence platforms - for the most complex customer engagements. Drive clarity where neither the business problem nor tec

- **Id**: 4050474
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-sr-forward-deployed-engineer-aws-forward-deployed-engineering-11>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, 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**: 2026-11-10T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6628
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4570
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 168100
- **Max**: 227400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 227400

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T01:25:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T02:39:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 227400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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