Startup Solutions Architect: AWS & GenAI Builder

Amazon Inc.

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 151,000 - 204,000

Full time

5 days ago
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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,

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