As AI reshapes the tech workforce, Amazon is making a billion-dollar bet that one engineering job is only becoming more valuable.
The company said on Thursday in its second-quarter earnings report that it will invest $1 billion to build AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, a new team of AI engineers who will work directly inside customer organizations to build and launch agentic AI systems in “days rather than months.”
Early customers include the Allen Institute, Cox Automotive, the NBA, the NFL, Ricoh, and Southwest Airlines, Amazon said.
The announcement underscores the rapid rise of the forward-deployed engineer, or FDE, a once-niche role that…
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