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Sr TPM, Fwd Deployed Engineer , Business Innovation and AI

Amazon.com Inc
  • Bellevue, WA
    4 days ago

    Job Description

    The Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team within Business Innovation & AI (BIA) is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager who builds. FDE embeds directly with teams across Amazon Global Operations Services (GOS), co-builds with them from day one, and ships working AI-powered solutions. Engagements range from short builds to multi-quarter programs. The impact here is internal: you build for the GOS org, not for external customers. We increasingly look for opportunities to replace manual processes and web-based interfaces with AI agents, so a lot of what you build will be agentic.

    This is an FDE role first, with a data engineering edge. The core of the job is building AI and agentic solutions embedded with operational teams. On top of that, you own the team's data and data-engineering strategy and infrastructure, the pipelines and architecture and data-quality decisions our AI work depends on.

    This is a builder role. We're looking for people who are already shipping AI solutions with the current generation of tooling, not people who are newly exploring AI or have only done some prompt engineering. The engineers who do well here are hands-on with agentic harnesses like Claude Code, Kiro, and Codex, and are plugged into the AI builder community closely enough to know what changed this month.

    Key job responsibilities

    Build AI & Agentic Solutions, Embedded (the primary work)

    • Embed with GOS operational teams, co-build from day one, and ship AI-powered solutions that change how work gets done
    • Look for opportunities to replace manual processes and web-based interfaces with AI agents, and build those agents end to end
    • Build with the current AI tooling yourself, including agentic harnesses (Claude Code, Kiro, Codex), LLM application frameworks, and RAG, and take prototypes to production

    Program Delivery

    • Drive the planning, coordination, and delivery of FDE's AI programs, managing risk and dependencies without relying on direct authority
    • Turn ambiguous operational problems into shipped solutions, and own the longer-horizon programs where the answer takes more than one build cycle

    Data & Data-Engineering Strategy (the DE edge)

    • Own the team's data and data-engineering strategy and infrastructure: the architecture, technology choices, and roadmap our AI work depends on
    • Make the calls on how operational data becomes AI-ready, and keep data quality, lineage, and freshness where the team can trust it
    • Connect source data to what the customer actually needs: find the right source, get the subscription in place, and build the pipeline that keeps it flowing
    • Make and defend the opinionated architecture calls (lakehouse vs. warehouse, batch vs. streaming, how far to normalize a domain), grounded in each use case

    Raising the Bar

    • Define the reusable patterns and standards that raise the bar for the whole team, and mentor engineers on them

    A day in the life

    You start the morning embedded with an operations team, working through a manual workflow you're replacing with an agent. By mid-morning you're building against it with current tooling and putting the next iteration in front of them. In the afternoon you switch to the data side, making the call on how a new data domain gets modeled and subscribed into the platform so the agent has what it needs. You close the day reviewing a teammate's design against the patterns you set, and re-cutting the roadmap for a program that has two quarters left to run.

    About the team

    Business Innovation & AI (BIA) finds the hardest, highest-value problems across Amazon Global Operations Services and builds AI-powered solutions that measurably change how work gets done. Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) is BIA's technical execution arm: a small, senior team with high autonomy and a bias for shipping. We embed with operational teams in the GOS org, co-build from day one, ship working solutions, and hand scalable patterns off to the broader organization. We don't just automate the existing process; we redesign the work around what AI and agents make possible.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBellevue, WA
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1994
    Websitehttp://Amazon.com/militaryroles

    About Company

    At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

    Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

    It’s Always Day 1
    At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

    Our Leadership Principles
    Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles

    Skills

    • Application Frameworkunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
    • Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programming Languagesunmatched
    • Data Qualityunmatched
    • Embedded Systemsunmatched
    • International Operationsunmatched
    • Machine Toolunmatched
    • Prototypingunmatched
    • Quality Managementunmatched
    • Risk Managementunmatched
    • Sales Pipelineunmatched
    • Technical Leadershipunmatched
    • Use Casesunmatched
    • Warehousingunmatched
    • Web Interfaceunmatched

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