Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups - Santa Monica

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Amazon Web Services is hiring a Senior Startup Solutions Architect to serve as a trusted technical advisor to early-stage startups in Southern California, many coming out of Y Combinator and other top accelerators. Acting as a fractional CTO for small founding teams, you will design right-sized architectures, prototype hands-on with GenAI (Bedrock, agents, RAG), and help founders ship production-ready AI products across AI/ML, FinTech, ClimateTech, healthcare, and consumer. You will also scout emerging tooling trends across the startup ecosystem and carry those signals back into AWS product roadmaps.

• Act as trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early-stage founders, designing architectures that are right-sized today and built to scale
• Prototype, build reference patterns, and demo working solutions alongside founders rather than handing over generic playbooks
• Help founders understand and improve architectures generated by coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex
• Guide startups through GenAI challenges including model cost, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
• Advise on pragmatic build-and-scale decisions, including when to keep architectures disposable while direction is still being validated
• Scout emerging technology trends across the startup ecosystem and translate signals back into AWS product roadmaps
• Share expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups to build trust in the community