Distyl AI
Enterprise AI Architect
$200K–$275K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Serves as a strategic technical partner to enterprise customers, shaping AI solutions from opportunity assessment and architecture through delivery oversight and expansion.
What you'll do
- Build trusted technical relationships with customer executives and leaders, identify valuable AI opportunities, and shape feasible technical visions.
- Lead solution architecture, feasibility assessment, prototypes, and technical SOW content, including integrations, data access, deployment, dependencies, assumptions, and risks.
- Stay engaged after close through architecture reviews, executive steering, risk escalations, and expansion; turn recurring customer needs into reusable assets and product feedback.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of relevant experience across engineering, enterprise architecture, forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or similar roles, with substantial customer-facing responsibility.
- Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping enterprise-grade Agentic AI/ML production systems.
- Proven executive advisory skills and ownership of complex enterprise architecture and scope, including writing technical SOW content.
- Strong working knowledge of APIs, integrations, cloud and enterprise architecture, data flows, security, and modern AI systems; coding fluency; deep expertise in at least one listed enterprise domain; able to travel 25% and work onsite in New York or San Francisco Tuesday–Thursday.
Nice to have
- Background in FDE, engineering, or technical consulting with ownership of customer outcomes and technical decisions.
- Experience in a partner-like role, at an early-stage startup, or in long, C-suite-led sales cycles.
Pay
$200,000 - $275,000 USD base salary
Tools
APIs
AI focus
Applies Agentic AI/ML systems to enterprise operations; assesses opportunities, shapes and prototypes solutions, and supports architecture through production delivery.
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