About the job
A Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (Principal FDE) embeds across multiple strategic enterprise customers to define the technical strategy and engineering standards for AI-powered production systems at scale. Principal FDEs write production-grade software, set the technical direction for complex multi-workstream engagements, and create the reusable architectures, patterns, and engineering mechanisms that scale the entire FDE practice — combining the technical depth of an AWS Principal SDE with the strategic influence required to deliver transformational customer business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy across engagements
- Build production AI systems and reference architectures
- Own production excellence at scale
- Accelerate customer transformation at the portfolio level
- Raise the bar for the practice
Qualifications
Minimum
- Current, active TS/SCI US Government Security Clearance
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience leading the design and architecture of large-scale production systems in customer-facing or enterprise environments
- Experience building production AI or ML platforms used across multiple products or customers
- Experience with enterprise-scale agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, or AI system governance
Preferred
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences, including executive level stakeholders or clients
- Experience in executive level engagement with SVP/VP/C-Suite
- Master's degree or above in computer science or equivalent
- Experience creating reusable architectures or platforms adopted across an organization
- Experience defining technical strategy and engineering standards as a principal engineer or tech lead influencing multi-team decisions
- Experience influencing product roadmaps through engineering insights