GenAI Startup Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a startup-focused technical advisor to partner with early-stage founders on architecture and cloud strategy. You’ll guide the design of scalable systems across AI/ML, FinTech, and SaaS domains while balancing cost, latency, and security.

You’ll collaborate with founders to shape practical, production-ready solutions, write technical content, and represent AWS at startup events and communities to build trust and accelerate growth.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures.
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.

Responsibilities

• Work hands-on with founders to design and iterate on architectures that are practical for where they are today but built to scale as they grow
• Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape, from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to building production-ready AI-powered products and services
• Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications, including managing model costs, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
• Support startups in building the right data foundations to power their AI products, whether that's vector databases, data pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning workflows
• Build and deepen relationships within the 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 product and engineering teams to help shape the tools and services being built for them
• Create technical content tailored tostartups, such as blog posts, reference architectures, and sample code, that helps founders move faster and spend less time reinventing the wheel
• Share your expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups across the ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Skills

Design/Implementation Experience

Cloud computing experience

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a startup-focused technical advisor to partner with early-stage founders on architecture and cloud strategy. You’ll guide the design of scalable systems across AI/ML, FinTech, and SaaS domains while balancing cost, latency, and security.

You’ll collaborate with founders to shape practical, production-ready solutions, write technical content, and represent AWS at startup events and communities to build trust and accelerate growth.