Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups
Core
Act as a trusted technical advisor and fractional CTO for early-stage startups, designing right-sized architectures and guiding GenAI implementation to help founders survive and scale.
Role type
Senior Solutions Architect (Early Stage Startups)
Builds
Production-ready GenAI products, scalable cloud architectures, and reference patterns for startups
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Generative AI, Early-Stage Startups
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Cloud architecture design, GenAI implementation (foundation models, agents, RAG), AWS services expertise, hands-on prototyping, startup empathy, technical communication
Preferred skills
Startup founding or founding engineer experience, fluency with agentic coding tools, deep domain expertise (AI/ML, FinTech, etc.), data foundation building
Technologies
AWS (Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes), GenAI models, agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex), vector databases
Responsibilities
Design right-sized architectures for early-stage startups, prototype and build reference patterns alongside founders, help founders understand and improve architectures generated by coding agents, guide founders through GenAI challenges (cost, latency, safety), make pragmatic build-and-scale decisions, experiment with emerging tools to stay technically sharp, build relationships in the startup ecosystem, act as a voice for founders to AWS product teams, scout emerging tech trends
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC