Startup Solutions Architect: AWS & GenAI Builder

Amazon Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Startup Solutions Architect for Early Stage Startups in San Francisco.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to founders, design scalable architectures, and prototype alongside teams to demonstrate real, working solutions using frontier AI tools and AWS services. You will navigate fast-moving GenAI considerations, guide cost and latency tradeoffs, and help startups pivot with data-driven recommendations while staying grounded in practical,

Qualifications

• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience.
• Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes.
• Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences.
• Hands‑on experience building with GenAI, such as foundation models, agents, RAG, or fine‑tuning, in a prototype or production setting.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Solution architecture

GenAI experience

Prototype & build

Technical advisor

Communication to founders

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Startup Solutions Architect for Early Stage Startups in San Francisco.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor to founders, design scalable architectures, and prototype alongside teams to demonstrate real, working solutions using frontier AI tools and AWS services. You will navigate fast-moving GenAI considerations, guide cost and latency tradeoffs, and help startups pivot with data-driven recommendations while staying grounded in practical,