Solutions Architect

Fundamental; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive health coverage

Fertility support and paid parental leave

Relocation support

Diversity-focused culture

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm in San Francisco is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to leverage their expertise in technical consulting. This role involves working closely with enterprise clients to identify impactful use cases, design robust architectures, and ensure successful deployments of predictive applications. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and hands-on experience with data manipulation. Competitive compensation, including salary and equity, is offered alongside comprehensive health benefits in a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical consulting or customer-facing technical roles.
• Proven ability to lead complex implementations in machine learning and Generative AI.
• Hands-on technical proficiency in data manipulation and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to identify high-impact use cases.
• Partner with Sales to create technical demos and prototypes.
• Design solution architectures for production-grade performance.
• Maintain relationships with senior stakeholders to drive strategy.

Skills

Technical consulting

Customer engagement

Data manipulation (Python, Pandas, SQL)

Strong communication skills

Multi-stakeholder navigation

Job description

About Fundamental

Fundamental is an AI company pioneering the future of enterprise decision-making. Founded by DeepMind alumni, Fundamental has developed NEXUS – the world's most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM) – purpose-built for the structured records that actually drive enterprise decisions. Backed by world class investors and trusted by Fortune 100 companies, Fundamental unlocks trillions of dollars of value by giving businesses the Power to Predict.

At Fundamental, you'll work on unprecedented technical challenges in foundation model development and build technology that transforms how the world's largest companies make decisions. This is your opportunity to be part of a category-defining company from the ground-up. Join the team defining the future of enterprise AI.

About the role

The Solutions Architect role sits at the intersection of our customers, engineering, enterprise deployment, and product, working directly with some of the world’s most data-rich organizations to bring predictive applications into production using our tabular foundation model. In this role, you will guide customers from early discovery and evaluation through deployment and scale. You’ll work with senior business and technical leaders to identify high-value use cases, design robust architectures, and ensure deployments deliver measurable business impact.

This is a hands-on role combining solution design, data science & machine learning, and production engineering, ideal for someone who enjoys owning a customer's technical success end-to-end and building real systems that perform in complex enterprise environments.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to pinpoint high-feasibility, high-impact use cases where NEXUS demonstrates clear ROI

• Partner with Sales to drive the technical win by scoping and building "Art of the Possible" demos, running competitive benchmarks, and prototyping solutions on customer data

• Own the technical strategy for customers, maintaining deep relationships with senior stakeholders and defining the long-term strategy for adoption and expansion

• Lead the end-to-end delivery project, coordinating Forward Deployed Engineers and customer teams to resolve technical blockers and drive alignment across IT, Governance, and Business stakeholders

• Design robust solution architectures and integration patterns that ensure production-grade performance in complex enterprise environments (On-prem, VPC, Legacy systems)

• Translate patterns from the field into high-signal engineering tickets for Product and Research to inform the roadmap and model evolution

• Codify winning deployment strategies into reusable assets and reference architectures to accelerate the entire Solutions Architect team.

• Travel 50% of the time

Must have

• 5+ years of experience in technical consulting or customer-facing technical roles (e.g. Solutions Architect, Data Scientist, Sales Engineer, ML engineer)

• Proven ability to lead complex technical implementations, spanning traditional machine learning and/or modern Generative AI systems, with an understanding of cloud and on-prem architectures

• Strong experience working with enterprise customers, including navigating multi-stakeholder environments and deployment cycles

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Hands-on technical proficiency with a focus on data manipulation (Python, Pandas, SQL) to execute rapid prototyping and analyze customer datasets independently.

• A collaborative mindset - excited to work cross-functionally, manage trade-offs and balance competing priorities across teams

• Demonstrated ability to own problems end-to-end, learn quickly, and fill in knowledge gaps as needed to deliver outcomes

• Humble, team-oriented attitude with a bias toward action and doing what’s necessary to help the broader team win

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and equity

• Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K

• Fertility support, as well as paid parental leave for all new parents, inclusive of adoptive and surrogate journeys

• Relocation support for employees moving to join the team in one of our office locations

• A mission-driven, low-ego culture that values diversity of thought, ownership, and bias toward action