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Staff Security Engineer - AI-Driven Security Assurance
Apple
Seattle, WA
Integrate AI-driven assurance capabilities into engineering workflows and existing security infrastructure to expand security coverage without proportionally increasing manual review effort
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Associate Director of Facilities – HVAC Operations
SUNY - Cortland
NY
…matter expert for complex building automation and mechanical infrastructure while supporting energy efficiency, sustainability, reliability and occupant comfort. The position guides…
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Site Reliability Engineer
Trimble Inc.
Westminster, CO
- $91,100 to $125,200 USD / year
Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure (FedRAMP & AWS)
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AI Security Engineer
Trimble Inc.
Westminster, CO
- $115,600 to $158,900 USD / year
Protect Enterprise Innovation as Our Next AI Security Engineer!
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AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer
Traversal
New York, NY
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Traversal, you will own the last-mile delivery of the Traversal platform and product for our most strategic customers to upgrade and tune the performance…
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Senior Software Engineer - Remote
UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN
- $91,700 to $163,700 USD / year
The Sr Software Engineer is a senior technical contributor responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and supporting scalable, secure, and high-performing software solutions. This…
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Data Centre Field Support Engineer (L1)
NTT America, Inc.
TX
- $19 to $24 USD / hour
The Data Center Service Delivery Field Support Engineer (L1) is an entry level engineering role, responsible for providing a professional first-line onsite technical support and field…
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Data Centre Field Support Engineer (L2)
NTT America, Inc.
TX
- $20 to $30 USD / hour
The Data Center Service Delivery Field Support Engineer (L2) is a developing engineering role, responsible for providing a professional second-line onsite technical support and field…
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Drainage Engineer
XL FERROVIAL CONSTRUCTION US CORP.
Atlanta, GA
The Drainage Engineer is responsible for supporting and independently performing drainage design, hydrologic and hydraulic analysis, plan production, technical documentation, and…
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Structures Engineer
XL FERROVIAL CONSTRUCTION US CORP.
Atlanta, GA
Overview: The Structures Engineer supports structural design and plan production for major civil infrastructure projects. This role assists with structural design calculations, plan…
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MSP Systems Engineer
MSP Hire, Inc.
Arcadia, CA
- $95,000 to $105,000 USD / year
We're looking for an experienced Senior MSP Systems Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems and working across a variety of client environments.
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Technical Support Specialist
Burns Engineering, Inc.
Suite 600 Philadelphia, PA
…project management services for transportation, facilities, and infrastructure projects. We help our clients attain their strategic goals and initiatives through successful large-scale…
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Staff DevOps Engineer
Witness AI
Mountain View, CA
High-impact individual contributor role at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, developer experience, AI-augmented tooling, and platform security. You will own architecture and…
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Head of DevOps
Witness AI
Mountain View, CA
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of DevOps / SecOps / MLOps engineers / IT Engineer.
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Principal Platform Software Engineer
Oracle
Nashville, TN
- $104,500 to $234,600 USD / year
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is building a next-generation artifact management platform for internal libraries and build artifacts. This platform is a critical part of OCI’s build,…
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Software Engineer (L3) Email
Twilio
Remote, United States
…throughput requirements continue to scale rapidly. As an L3 engineer, you will act as a key driver of execution within our core services. You will be heavily involved in modernizing our…
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Security Engineer II
LTL Lennar Homes of TX L&C LTD
Irving, TX
The Systems Engineer II - Security is a mid-level position responsible for enhancing and maintaining the security of the organization’s information technology infrastructure. The Systems…
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Project Engineer - LSC
STO Building Group
Los Angeles, CA
The Project Engineer assists Project Managers to ensure that work installed on the project meets plan and specification requirements.
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Sr. Network Systems Engineer
modis
San Bernardino, CA
- $60 to $65 USD / hour
Position Summary-Engineer and support the enterprise-level Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) infrastructure for Client and its member agencies. Performs related duties as…
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Senior Substation Electrical Engineer
WSP
Charlotte, NC · Richmond, VA · New Bern, NC
WSP is currently initiating a search for a Senior Substation Electrical Engineer for our Richmond, VA and Charlotte, NC offices. Selected candidates may work remotely from a mutually…
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Senior Traffic Engineer
AECOM
Birmingham, AL
- $120,000 to $190,000 USD / year
…helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for…
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Electrical Engineer IV
O2EPCM, Inc. dba O2 Engineering, Projects & Construction Management
Los Angeles, CA
systems design for facilities infrastructure.
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Prototyping Specialist
Skydio
San Mateo, CA
The Hardware Development team is relied upon by nearly every engineer in the Hardware organization at Skydio. We take on whatever engineers need to keep hardware moving.
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Entry Level Planning Engineer
Carollo Engineers Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA
The Staff Professional will contribute to the development of the firm’s Infrastructure Master Planning group. Previous experience with either water or wastewater system planning/hydraulic…
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Senior / Staff Backend Software Engineer
Endor Labs
Palo Alto, CA
…context graph, which maps code, open source, containers and infrastructure. It shows which vulnerabilities can actually be reached and exploited, then delivers fixes that won’t break the…

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Startup Solutions Architect

San Francisco, CA, United States

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Posting language: English
Posted: Oct 8, 2026

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Come work with the founders building what's next.

Some of the most important companies of the next decade are being built right now, in San Francisco, by two or three people and an idea. We're looking for someone who wants a front-row seat to all of them, and the technical chops to help make them real.

You'll work across AI/ML, FinTech, ClimateTech, healthcare, consumer, B2B SaaS, and whatever gets invented next, with many of these companies coming straight out of Y Combinator and other top accelerators or freshly backed by leading VC firms. They need a trusted technical voice in their corner from day one, and you get to be it. Picture a small team with a technical founder and maybe a couple of engineers, moving fast with Claude Code, Codex, and whatever tool shipped last week, trying to make every product, architecture, and business decision at once. There's no VP of Engineering to align with, no platform team to hand things off to, and no multi-quarter roadmap, so for the startups you work with you become the closest thing they have to a fractional CTO or chief architect. That's what makes this an adventure rather than a support role: you and the founders are figuring it out together, and a single good decision can save six months of runway while a bad one can quietly sink the whole thing.

The work is bigger than architecture, and it changes week to week. One week you're helping a team understand the architecture their coding agent quietly built for them and untangling the decisions they didn't realize they'd made, the next you're figuring out how to scale after an unexpected viral launch, and the week after that you're working a compliance problem with a FinTech startup that has to move fast but can't cut corners, or talking a founder through a hard pivot and helping them separate what they've already built from where the data says they should actually go. You'll prototype alongside them, experiment with frontier AI, and carry what you learn from hundreds of founders back into AWS so the products we build reflect what the leading edge actually needs.

We hire for a specific kind of person, and it starts with founder empathy over enterprise process. You get that every dollar spent on infra is a dollar not spent on talent or growth, that their timeline is measured in months of runway, and that they're emotionally all-in on this idea, so you earn trust by genuinely caring whether the team survives rather than by showing off enterprise-grade architecture. That empathy shows up as survival-first thinking: before you recommend anything, you understand their runway, their burn, their signals of product-market fit, and their next milestone, whether that's demo day, a fundraise, or a first paying customer.

To advise this well you have to see the full stack of the business, letting technical choices, product, business model, runway, and the founder's own risk tolerance all inform your recommendations, because you can't advise on architecture without understanding burn rate. You stay a builder at heart, since you don't stop being an engineer when you join this team; you prototype, write code, and get your hands dirty with new models, Bedrock, agents, and RAG because that's how you stay credible with people who build for a living. And you act as a scout for the future, spotting when a single startup's tool choice becomes a cohort-wide trend twelve to twenty-four months before the rest of the market, then carrying that signal back to AWS product and service teams. You don't have to already be a Solutions Architect to do this. Great people on this team have come from founding-engineer roles, senior software engineering, AI engineering, and traditional SA backgrounds, and if you're an excellent builder who loves customers, we can teach you the AWS you need.

Key job responsibilities

Act as a trusted technical advisor to a portfolio of early-stage founders, designing architectures that are right-sized for where they are today and built to grow if and when they scale
Get hands-on: prototype, build reference patterns, and demo working solutions alongside founders rather than handing them a generic playbook
Help founders understand and improve the architectures their coding agents generated, making sense of the decisions and tradeoffs baked into what they've already shipped
Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape, from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to shipping production-ready AI-powered products
Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications, including model cost, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
Help founders make pragmatic build-and-scale decisions, including when to keep architectures disposable and adaptable while the direction is still being validated
Stay technically sharp by experimenting with new models, agent frameworks, and emerging tools, so you can advise credibly across the entire stack
Build and deepen relationships across San Francisco's startup ecosystem, including top accelerators like Y Combinator, incubators, and leading VC firms
Be a voice for your founders, connecting their feedback and needs directly to AWS product and engineering teams to shape the tools being built for them
Scout emerging technology trends across the startups you work with and translate those signals back into AWS product roadmaps
Share your expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups across the San Francisco ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Basic Qualifications

4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
Experience with designing and building application using AWS services such as Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Kubernetes
Experience conveying complex technical concepts to both technical and business audiences
Hands-on experience building with GenAI, such as foundation models, agents, RAG, or fine-tuning, in a prototype or production setting

Preferred Qualifications

Experience as a startup founder, founding engineer, or early engineer at a pre-Series A company
Fluency with modern agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex) and the ability to reason about the architectures they generate
Experience shipping GenAI applications to production, including managing model cost, latency, accuracy, and safety
Depth in at least one technical or industry domain (e.g. AI/ML, data & analytics, security, FinTech, healthcare) paired with broad full-stack fluency
Experience building data foundations for AI products, such as vector databases, data pipelines, or retrieval systems

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, San Francisco - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually

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