
AI Solutions Architect
Cuesta Partners
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $145,000 - $188,000 per year
Tech Stack
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