Forward Deployed Engineer II (FDE II), AWS

About the role

An 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. The role requires 30-50% travel and is open to US citizens holding an active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility or higher.

Key responsibilities

• Embed within customer engineering teams, understanding their business processes, technical architecture and operational constraints, and translate requirements into technical designs for AI-enabled systems
• Design and develop production-grade software for AI and agentic workflows, including retrieval pipelines, workflow automation, API orchestration and data integration, optimizing for latency, reliability and cost
• Own production for the workstream: contribute to the full SDLC, troubleshoot production incidents, implement monitoring, guardrails and CI/CD
• Mentor and train new team members, and actively participate in code reviews
• Identify opportunities to expand AI adoption, codify reusable patterns and accelerate future customer deployments

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field
• Active TS/SCI US Government security clearance
• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years in an Agile, startup or rapidly scaling environment
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences

Required skills

• Agentic and spec-driven development; AI tools such as eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines and prompt engineering
• Preferred: AWS services, production AI/ML applications, React, TypeScript, Python and/or Go

What we offer

• Salary range of $143,700-$194,400 USD depending on location, plus sign-on payments and RSUs
• Health, dental, vision and prescription insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off and parental leave