Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government
AmazonWebServices · Arlington, Arlington County ·
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Company size
- 1000+
- Salary
- USD 143,700 – 213,800 / year
A Forward Deployed Engineer II embeds with a US Government customer's engineering team to design, build, deploy, and run AI-powered production systems end-to-end — agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and API orchestration on AWS — while owning production operations and mentoring teammates. Requires US citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph; 30-50% travel.
Application deadline: Sep 21, 2026 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 deli…