Startup Solutions Architect, San Francisco GenAI Startups

Amazon
San Francisco, CA, USA2026-05-11ONSITE

About the job

Are you passionate about startups? Do you get excited about helping founders solve hard technical problems at the earliest and most critical stages of building their company? We're looking for a Solutions Architect who wants to be deeply embedded in San Francisco's startup ecosystem. Come join us!

Responsibilities

Work hands-on with early-stage 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 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 product and engineering teams to help shape the tools and services being built for them

Create technical content tailored to early-stage startups, 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 San Francisco ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Qualifications

Minimum

2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience

4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

Preferred

Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries

Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud

Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective

Experience working with end user or developer communities