Enterprise AI Architect
Senior IC serving as a long-term technical partner to Distyl's strategic Fortune 500 customers: shaping AI solution architecture, feasibility, and SOWs, then staying attached through delivery and expansion. Requires hands-on agentic AI/ML production experience plus enterprise architecture, APIs/cloud/security depth and executive advisory skills.
- Compensation
- $200K–$275K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of relevant experience across engineering, enterprise architecture, forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or similar, with substantial customer-facing responsibility
- Hands-on production delivery: designed, built, and shipped Enterprise-grade Agentic AI/ML systems
- Able to operate as a senior technical advisor to executives, shaping ambiguous problems and handling high-stakes conversations
- Proven ownership of complex enterprise solution architecture and scope, including writing technical SOW content
- Ability to work effectively with FDE / Delivery / Product & Strategy teams
- Strong working knowledge of APIs, integrations, cloud and enterprise architecture, data flows, security, and modern AI systems
- Coding fluency to prototype, inspect systems, and engage deeply with engineers
- Deep domain expertise in one or more enterprise areas such as customer support, voice, MarTech, Cybersecurity, IAM, or Document processing
- Able to travel 25% and work from the New York or San Francisco office Tuesday–Thursday (3+ days per week hybrid)
Nice to have
- Background in an FDE, engineering, or technical consulting organization owning both customer outcomes and technical decisions
- Experience in a partner-like role at a consulting firm, high-growth technology company, or enterprise software company with long, C-suite-led sales cycles
- Experience at an early-stage startup and comfort operating in ambiguous environments
Full description
About Distyl AI
Distyl is an applied AI technology company partnering with the world’s most ambitious institutions to rearchitect critical operations for the frontier of AI. Our customers include the largest companies in telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, consumer goods, and global social organizations.
We research and deploy technologies that power AI-native operations — both for our partners and for Distyl itself. Our work spans research into self-constructing systems, the development of the most reliable execution of AI systems, and products that transform mission-critical workflows. As a result, Distyl's technologies affect some of the world's largest operations — from hundreds of millions of consumer interactions to tens of millions of supply chain transactions and millions of patient journeys.
Distyl is backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Coatue, DST Global, and the board-members of 20+ F500s.
What We Are Looking For
We are looking for a senior Enterprise AI Architect to serve as the long-term technical partner to some of Distyl’s most strategic Fortune 500 customers. You will operate more like a senior technical partner than a traditional pre-sales architect: build trust with C-suite and technical leaders, bring a strong point of view on where AI can create meaningful business value, shape the solution with the customer, and stay accountable for the technical relationship beyond signature.
This role sits in Engineering and works closely with Go-to-Market, Product, and Forward-Deployed Engineering. You will lead the technical arc of an account from early technology conversations and problem shaping through architecture, feasibility, and SOW; for qualified late-stage pursuits, you will partner with forward deployed engineers to drive implementation of solutions. After close, the Technical Delivery Lead owns day-to-day execution while you remain attached for architecture reviews, steering moments, difficult decisions, and expansion.
This is a senior individual-contributor role for someone who has built and delivered production systems, can hold a room with executives, and can translate between business ambition and engineering reality. Success means customers view you as a trusted technical advisor, GTM gets technically credible proposals, and delivery inherits scopes that survive contact with production.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the strategic technical relationship. Serve as the primary technical counterpart for strategic accounts, building trust with CIO/CTO-level leaders, enterprise architects, and business executives. Help customers identify where AI can materially change an operation, pattern-match from prior deployments, and shape an ambitious but deliverable technical vision.