Real-Time AI Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)

LiveKit; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) to be the technical partner to engineers and enterprises building on LiveKit. You’ll work with an account executive to understand customer goals, design the architecture, and bring it to life with live demos and proofs-of-concept, guiding teams from first conversation to production.

This role thrives with hands-on engineering collaboration, strong communication, and a passion for turning complex problems into reliable, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a customer-facing engineering role.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Comfortable with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and networking fundamentals.
• Able to reason about connectivity, latency, and scale in AI agentic experiences.
• Strong programming ability in Python, TypeScript/Node, or Go.
• Clear communicator who can demo, present, and write for technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with an account executive as the technical lead on strategic deals — from discovery and architecture design through demos, POCs, and technical decisions.
• Advise customers on cloud architecture and deployment across self-hosted and LiveKit Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Build live demos and reference applications — voice agents, video pipelines, telephony integrations — tailored to each customer's use case, and reusable by the wider team.
• Scope and run proofs-of-concept against clear, shared success criteria, guiding customers all the way to production.
• Reason with customers about connectivity, infrastructure, and end-to-end latency to design for scale and reliability.
• Create technical content — blog posts, guides, webinars, and conference talks — that helps developers and enterprises build with LiveKit.
• Act as the technical enabler for your region's pod, and share field insight with Product and Engineering to help shape the roadmap.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Cloud experience

Clear communicator

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) to be the technical partner to engineers and enterprises building on LiveKit. You’ll work with an account executive to understand customer goals, design the architecture, and bring it to life with live demos and proofs-of-concept, guiding teams from first conversation to production.

This role thrives with hands-on engineering collaboration, strong communication, and a passion for turning complex problems into reliable, scalable solutions.