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Systems and Network Engineer
Trean Corporation
WAYZATA, MN
- $100,000 to $115,000 USD / year
Systems and Network Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for maintaining and improving Trean’s technology environment to support day-to-day operations. The position combines…
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Staff Software Engineer, Release
Anduril Industries
Seattle, WA · Costa Mesa, CA
The Software Platform Foundations team at Anduril is dedicated to building the foundational systems that empower our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy cutting-edge defense…
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Staff Software Engineer, Release
Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, CA
The Software Platform Foundations team at Anduril is dedicated to building the foundational systems that empower our engineering teams to develop, test, and deploy cutting-edge defense…
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Staff Fullstack Engineer (TypeScript)
Northbeam
Remote, United States
As a Staff Fullstack Engineer at Northbeam, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality fullstack web solutions that support our business. You will…
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Forward Deployed Engineer
Posh
Boston, MA
- $185,000 to $215,000 USD / year
As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Posh, you’ll be at the center of our client deployments, turning our conversational AI products across Voice, Digital, and Outreach into production-ready…
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Senior Principal Engineer - R&D Digital
DePuy Synthes Products Inc. Legal Entity
Remote, United States
We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Principal Engineer – R&D Digital to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a remote position, with a preference that someone is located…
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Staff Software Development Engineer
CVS Health
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This Staff Engineer will be strong in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event‑driven systems, comfortable operating in cloud‑native environments, and experienced working in regulated…
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Senior Principal Engineer - R&D Digital
DePuy Synthes Products Inc. Legal Entity
Remote, United States
We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Principal Engineer – R&D Digital to join our Orthopaedics team. This is a remote position, with a preference that someone is located…
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Staff Software Engineer
Illumio
Sunnyvale, CA
- $190,000 to $235,000 USD / year
As an engineer here, you will design, build, and optimize massively scalable distributed systems that power the future of zero trust, segmentation, and automated breach containment. Working…
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Systems Engineer – Standards / Technical Specifications
LEIDOS, INC.
Bethesda, MD
Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Systems Engineer – Standards / Technical Specifications in our Intel Sector Analysis Solutions Business Area (ASBA). Our talented team is at…
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Contract Systems Architect - AI, AWS & Consumer Platforms
MarcoPolo Learning
Remote, United States
A strong track record as a Systems Architect, Staff/Principal Engineer, or technical leader building and operating production software.
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Chemical Design Associate - P&U
Burns Engineering, Inc.
Iowa City, IA · STE 690 Lafayette, IN · Rock Island, IL
…Firm, and has been named an MEP Giant by Consulting-Specifying Engineer Magazine, as well as a Hot Firm by Zweig. We are industry experts, proven leaders, innovative thinkers, and team…
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Project Engineer
Actalent
Versailles, KY
Project Engineer - Natural Gas Pipelines & Metering Stations
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Senior Staff Software Engineer, JavaScript Runtime & Compilers
ServiceNow
Remote, United States
It all started when engineer Fred Luddy wrote code that automated a tedious task for his coworker, Phyllis. She cried tears of joy. That moment inspired Fred to build a company that could…
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Building Engineer
Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools
Prior Lake, MN
- $58,486 to $60,840 USD / year
Collaborate with Lead Custodians and maintenance team members to perform preventative maintenance on all building systems, ensuring operation as designed and maximum efficiency.
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Chief Building Engineer
CBRE
Washington D.C., DC
- $115,000 to $130,000 USD / year
As a CBRE Chief Building Engineer, you will perform complex preventive maintenance and corrective repairs of buildings, industrial systems, vehicles, equipment, and grounds.
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Field Implementation Technician / Engineer (RFID Systems) - U.S. Citizenship Required
CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.
Washington, DC
…the system to life. As a Field Implementation Technician / Engineer (RFID Systems), you’ll set up the technology on site - configuring hardware, connecting it to network and power…
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Associate Engineer – Primary Container Testing, Characterization & Qualification (Biopharmaceuticals) - JP16067
3 Key Consulting
Thousand Oaks, CA
- $30 to $33 USD / hour
…MSE under CPO in Thousand Oaks, CA. The role supports senior staff in initiating, designing and delivering projects, particularly in primary container design, characterization and…
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Robotics Software Engineer, DC Robotics
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Austin, TX · Seattle, WA · Santa Clara, CA · San Francisco, CA
AWS is seeking a Robotics Software Engineer to build and maintain the software systems that power robots operating in our data centers. You will own the software that enables robots to…
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Robotics Hardware Engineer, Data Center Robotics
Amazon Data Services, Inc.
Austin, TX · Santa Clara, CA · Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA
AWS is seeking a Hardware Engineer to design, prototype, and bring to production the mechanical and thermal systems that enable robots to operate reliably in our data centers. You will own…
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Electrical Engineer II
TRC Companies, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
We recognize that the expertise of our staff is our strongest asset, so we generously reward employees for successful performance and invest in their careers through training and the…
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Electrical Engineer V
TRC Companies, Inc.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
…techniques, procedures, and criteria for various engineering systems of varying size and medium to high complexity under the direction of the incumbent-s supervisor or other professional…
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Software Engineer
TRC Companies, Inc.
Arlington, TX
We recognize that the expertise of our staff is our strongest asset, so we generously reward employees for successful performance and invest in their careers through training and the…
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Lead Systems Engineer, Ground Systems
Insight Global
Centennial, CO
- From $76 USD / hour
The Lead Systems Engineer, Ground Systems will serve as the technical systems engineering lead for a satellite command-and-control ground system, owning systems engineering execution from…
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Lead Systems Engineer
Insight Global
Centennial, CO
- From $76 USD / hour
The Lead Systems Engineer will provide technical leadership for the development, integration, verification, and validation of complex, mission-critical space and defense systems. This…

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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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