Startup Solutions Architect, Early Stage Startups

Amazon • Boston, MA

11h • $131,300 - $177,600 • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Solutions Architect who is passionate about startups and eager to help founders solve complex technical problems during the critical early stages of their company's development. This role requires deep embedding within Boston's vibrant startup ecosystem. Early-stage startups operate with speed and limited resources, making crucial technical decisions that can either enable growth or create future bottlenecks. Many of these companies emerge from top accelerators like Y Combinator or are backed by leading VC firms, and they require a trusted technical advisor.

In this position, you will directly engage with early-stage founders across diverse industries such as AI/ML, FinTech, ClimateTech, healthcare, consumer, and B2B SaaS. Your primary goal will be to guide them in making pragmatic architectural decisions that facilitate rapid development while ensuring scalability and stability. You will cultivate lasting relationships with these founders, becoming one of their initial trusted technical voices.

This role is not about providing generic solutions. Weekly tasks may involve assisting a first-time founder with architecture before any code is written, helping a seed-stage company scale after an unexpected viral launch, or navigating compliance challenges with a FinTech startup that needs to move quickly without compromising standards. Beyond direct founder engagement, you will have opportunities to maintain and enhance your technical skills. You will advocate for the startups you work with, ensuring that relevant products and features are developed to meet their needs. Additionally, you will share your expertise by creating technical content and presenting at startup and developer events throughout the Boston ecosystem.

Requirements

• 2+ years of design, implementation, or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
• 4+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
• Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
• Experience working with AWS technologies from a dev/ops perspective
• Experience working with end user or developer communities

Responsibilities

• Work hands-on with early-stage founders to design and iterate on architectures that are practical for where they are today but built to scale as they grow
• Help startups navigate the fast-moving GenAI landscape, from selecting the right foundation models and AI services to building production-ready AI-powered products and services
• Guide founders through the real challenges of building GenAI applications, including managing model costs, latency, accuracy, safety, and AI best practices
• Support startups in building the right data foundations to power their AI products, whether that's vector databases, data pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or fine-tuning workflows
• Build and deepen relationships within Boston'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 product and engineering teams to help shape the tools and services being built for them
• Create technical content tailored to early-stage startups, such as blog posts, reference architectures, and sample code, that helps founders move faster and spend less time reinventing the wheel
• Share your expertise at startup events, demo days, and developer meetups across the Boston ecosystem to build trust and visibility in the community

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance
• 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
• Parental leave
• Flexible work hours and arrangements
• Employee-led affinity groups
• Knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed