Cuesta Partners

AI Solutions Architect

Cuesta Partners

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $188,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Design cloud-native AI and data solution architectures, including reference patterns, data flows, AI/ML workflows, and LLM orchestration that balance scalability, security, cost, and speed to value.
  • Translate AI and data architectures into clear diagrams, executive-ready narratives, visuals, and roadmaps for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Advise clients on AI strategy, build-vs-buy decisions, governance, and ethical considerations.
  • Integrate and orchestrate data across multiple platforms, including cloud data warehouses and lakes (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks) and external APIs
  • Collaborate with ML Engineers and Data Engineers to validate architectural alignment and integration feasibility.
  • Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments; identify and execute course corrections as needed.
  • Architect AI solutions that leverage LLMs and RAG patterns to deliver interpretable insights and human-readable outputs from complex model results.
  • Mentor junior architects and consultants; contribute to reusable accelerators, templates, and an internal knowledge base.
  • Provide technical oversight across multiple client engagements, ensuring architectural consistency, delivery quality, and alignment between business requirements and implemented solutions.
  • Provide hands-on guidance to engineering and data teams on API integrations, data pipelines, and AI service connectivity, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable.
  • Stay current on emerging AI platforms, LLM tooling, and cloud-based data services, continuously evaluating how they can enhance our integration capabilities.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in solution architecture, data engineering, or software engineering roles; 3+ years architecting AI/ML solutions in production.
  • Proven experience designing modern, cloud-native AI solutions and integrations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including data platform integration, LLM orchestration, and secure API connectivity.
  • Hands-on experience with at least two of the following:
  • - Deep-learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, JAX).
  • - NLP/LLM stacks (Hugging Face, LangChain, vector databases, RAG patterns).
  • - Computer-vision pipelines (OpenCV, TorchVision).
  • - AutoML & orchestration (Vertex AI, SageMaker, MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow).
  • - Solid grounding in data modeling, API design (REST/GraphQL), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi).
  • Exceptional communication skills—able to whiteboard with engineers in the morning and brief the C-suite in the afternoon.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • Consulting or professional-services experience
Benefits
  • Offers Bonus
  • In addition to the base salary, there is typically an annual bonus of between 15-25% of salary.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
solution architecturedata engineeringsoftware engineeringAI/ML solutionscloud-native solutionsdata modelingAPI designcontainerizationIaCdeep-learning frameworks
Soft Skills
exceptional communication skillsmentoringcollaborationtechnical oversightadvising clients