Senior Solutions Architect

think; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 280,000 - 460,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Senior team collaboration

Ownership and impact

Hardware + AI at scale

Job summary

think is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead pre-sales and customer success for its Riyadh-based commercial footprint. You will map think AI Nodes and ILM to customer environments, serving as the technical authority daily.

Role is full-time with Field Engineering and Riyadh as the location. English fluency required; Arabic is a strong advantage. You will own workshops, RFP responses and deployments from kickoff to go-live.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in solutions architecture or equivalent customer-facing technical role.
• Experience designing compute solutions for named accounts.
• Breadth across accelerated compute, networking, storage, Linux, and training/inference on bare metal.
• Experience managing a small technical team or acting as tech lead.
• Fluent English; Arabic is a strong advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical solution design on every major deal. Translate customer requirements into hardware and software configurations that win.
• Lead workshops, technical deep dives and proof-of-concept scoping with customer architects and engineering teams.
• Manage the Solutions Engineer and the Customer Support Technician. Hire, develop and hold the bar as the team grows.
• Own technical RFP responses: accurate, complete, and with a point of view.
• Be the bridge between sales and engineering. Carry customer pain back to the product team and bring engineering confidence to the customer.
• Run technical onboarding and see deployments through from kickoff to go-live.

Job description

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Senior Solutions Architect

Lead technical pre-sales and customer success across the commercial footprint, anchored in Riyadh and growing into the region. You are the technical authority who maps think AI Nodes and ILM to a customer environment, workload and constraints, and you are customer facing every day.

Type Full time

Team Field engineering

Location Riyadh

What you will do

• Own the technical solution design on every major deal. Translate customer requirements into hardware and software configurations that win.
• Lead workshops, technical deep dives and proof-of-concept scoping with customer architects and engineering teams.
• Manage the Solutions Engineer and the Customer Support Technician. Hire, develop and hold the bar as the team grows.
• Own technical RFP responses: accurate, complete, and with a point of view.
• Be the bridge between sales and engineering. Carry customer pain back to the product team and bring engineering confidence to the customer.
• Run technical onboarding and see deployments through from kickoff to go-live.

What you need

• Eight years or more as a solutions architect, sales engineer or equivalent customer-facing technical role in AI, accelerated compute, server or data centre infrastructure.
• Experience at a leading hardware, hyperscale or AI company designing compute solutions for named accounts.
• Technical breadth across accelerated compute, networking, storage, Linux, and training, fine-tuning and inference on bare metal.
• Experience managing a small technical team, or acting as tech lead inside a larger organisation.
• Fluent English. Arabic is a strong advantage.

Useful, not required

• Hands-on with CUDA, ROCm, PyTorch, vLLM or comparable infrastructure tooling.
• Familiarity with liquid cooling, high-density rack design, or regulated-environment architectures.
• Experience positioning combined hardware and software solutions.
• A postgraduate degree in a technical field.
• Time inside a startup scaling from early to growth stage.

What we offer

• One of the first deep tech companies in the region, building foundational technology in house.
• Meaningful ownership and impact at an early stage.
• Competitive early-stage compensation.
• Close collaboration with a small, senior team.
• Problems that combine hardware, systems and AI at scale.