Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups
Core
Trusted technical advisor and hands-on builder for early-stage startups, acting as a fractional CTO to help founders navigate architecture, GenAI implementation, and scaling decisions.
Role type
Senior Solutions Architect (Startup Portfolio)
Builds
Production-ready GenAI applications, scalable architectures, and reference patterns for early-stage companies
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure, Generative AI, Startup Ecosystem
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
GenAI (foundation models, agents, RAG), AWS services (Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes), full-stack fluency, startup empathy, rapid prototyping, technical advisory
Preferred skills
Founding engineer experience, agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex), data foundations for AI (vector DBs, pipelines), deep domain expertise (FinTech, healthcare)
Technologies
AWS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, GenAI models, agentic coding tools
Responsibilities
Design right-sized architectures for early-stage startups, prototype and build reference patterns alongside founders, help founders understand and improve architectures generated by coding agents, guide founders through GenAI challenges (cost, latency, safety), make pragmatic build-and-scale decisions, experiment with emerging tools to stay technically sharp, build relationships with startup ecosystem (accelerators, VCs), act as a voice for founders to AWS product teams, scout emerging tech trends, share expertise at startup events