Startup Solutions Architect, San Francisco Early Stage Startups - San Francisco

Amazon Web Services is seeking a Startup Solutions Architect to advise early-stage founders in San Francisco on cloud architecture and scalable product decisions. The role focuses on helping startups navigate the GenAI landscape, select foundation models, build AI-powered services, and establish data foundations including vector databases and RAG pipelines. You will also create technical content and represent AWS at startup events, accelerators, and developer meetups.

• Work hands-on with early-stage founders to design and iterate on practical, scalable architectures
• Help startups navigate the GenAI landscape, from selecting foundation models to building production-ready AI products and services
• Guide founders through the challenges of building GenAI applications, including model costs, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
• Support startups in building data foundations such as vector databases, data pipelines, RAG, and fine-tuning workflows
• Build relationships within San Francisco's startup ecosystem, including accelerators and VC firms
• Connect founder feedback to product and engineering teams to shape AWS services
• Create technical content such as blog posts, reference architectures, and sample code
• Share expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas experience (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data and analytics)

• 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