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Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering

$159,300–$212,800annualizedMountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreMountain View, CA +5On-site

View posting at Amazon (incl AWS)

About the job

Hands-on security engineer embedded with AWS Forward Deployed Engineering delivery pods to secure production AI systems in strategic enterprise customer environments.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

  • Conduct security and architecture reviews for production AI systems
  • Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications
  • Build security automation, CI/CD gates, scanning tools, and guardrail tests
  • Implement controls for prompt injection, data isolation, output filtering, and endpoint hardening

What you’ll bring

  • 2+ years of experience across threat modeling, secure coding, identity, software development, cryptography, systems, or network security
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
  • 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review experience
  • 2+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigation plans

Technologies

Amazon Bedrock · Python · IAM · RAG · CI/CD · Scala · Java · Go · C/C++

About Amazon (incl AWS)

Online retail, third-party marketplace, Prime/ads/devices, and AWS — the world's largest cloud platform powering startups and enterprises.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay
$159,300–$212,800Annualized in US dollars
Location
Mountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +4 more
Work arrangement
On-site
Employment type
Full-time
Visa sponsorship
Not available
Experience requirements
2+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work
Internal deployment & tooling

Our reading of the posting, not the employer’s words.

How this compares

The middle of this range is $186,000, below the $198,000 median for the 1,730 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.