Amazon
Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups
$154K–$208K
Santa Monica, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in technology domain areas and 2+ years in application and infrastructure design, implementation, or consulting.
About the job
Advises early-stage startup founders on practical AWS architecture and GenAI product decisions, builds and prototypes solutions with them, and relays startup needs and emerging trends to AWS teams.
What you'll do
- Design right-sized architectures and help founders make build, scale, and GenAI implementation decisions.
- Prototype and demo working solutions, including helping founders assess architectures created by coding agents.
- Build startup ecosystem relationships and share founder feedback and technology trends with AWS product and engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience in technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
- 2+ years of experience in application and infrastructure design, implementation, or consulting.
- Experience designing and building applications using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Kubernetes.
- Experience explaining complex technical concepts to technical and business audiences; hands-on GenAI building experience with foundation models, agents, RAG, or fine-tuning.
Nice to have
- Experience as a startup founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a pre-Series A company.
- Experience shipping GenAI applications to production, or fluency with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex.
Pay
153,600.00 - 207,800.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes, GenAI, foundation models, RAG, fine-tuning
AI focus
Hands-on prototyping and advising on GenAI applications, including model and service selection, agents, RAG, fine-tuning, and production concerns such as cost, latency, accuracy, and safety.
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