Drimva

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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First seen Oct 27, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)