Fractional CTO & Startup Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 151.000 - 204.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a founder‑level technologist to act as a trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early‑stage startups. You’ll design right‑sized architectures and prototype solutions alongside founders, rather than handing generic playbooks.

You’ll help teams understand coding agents' architectures, navigate the GenAI landscape, and guide build‑and‑scale decisions while staying technically sharp across the stack to inform AWS product roadmaps.

Formación

• 4+ years in software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data & analytics.
• 2+ years in design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• Experience with designing and building applications using AWS services such as Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience building with GenAI, such as foundation models, agents, RAG, or fine-tuning.
• Ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.

Responsabilidades

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early-stage founders, designing architectures that are right-sized for where they are today and built to grow if and when they scale
• Get hands‑on: prototype, build reference patterns, and demo working solutions alongside founders rather than handing them a generic playbook
• Help founders understand and improve the architectures their coding agents generated, making sense of the decisions and tradeoffs baked into what they’ve already shipped
• Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape, from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to shipping production-ready AI-powered products
• Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications, including model cost, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
• Help founders make pragmatic build‑and‑scale decisions, including when to keep architectures disposable and adaptable while the direction is still being validated
• Stay technically sharp by experimenting with new models, agent frameworks, and emerging tools, so you can advise credibly across the entire stack
• Build and deepen relationships across San Francisco's startup ecosystem, including top accelerators like Y Combinator, incubators, and leading VC firms
• Be a voice for your founders, connecting their feedback and needs directly to AWS product and engineering teams to shape the tools being built for them
• Scout emerging technology trends across the startups you work with and translate those signals back into AWS product roadmaps
• Share your expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups across the San Francisco ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Conocimientos

Architectural design

GenAI experience

AWS services

Effective communicator

Startup founder/engineer mindset

Herramientas

Claude Code

Codex

GenAI tooling

RAG

Descripción del empleo

Amazon Web Services, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a founder‑level technologist to act as a trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early‑stage startups. You’ll design right‑sized architectures and prototype solutions alongside founders, rather than handing generic playbooks.

You’ll help teams understand coding agents' architectures, navigate the GenAI landscape, and guide build‑and‑scale decisions while staying technically sharp across the stack to inform AWS product roadmaps.