Specialist Solutions Architect - AI/MLActive$180K

Databricks
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The opportunity

As an AI/ML Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA), you will lead the advanced AI/ML technical strategy for your customers — owning complex architecture discussions, driving platform adoption, and serving as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads and architects. You combine…

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end AI/ML technical strategy for your accounts, from discovery: through production deployment and consumption growth

  • Lead complex architecture discussions: designing scalable, production-grade solutions spanning AI/ML, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), tool calling, multi-agent orchestration, guardrails, AI evaluation, and observability systems

  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leads, and Directors

  • Drive technical wins in competitive scenarios by demonstrating Databricks’: differentiation through custom-built solutions

  • Develop and declare an emerging technical specialization (archetype): becoming a go-to resource for your team in that domain

  • Orchestrate cross-functional resources (DSAs, SAs, Partners) to deliver: comprehensive solutions for complex customer needs

What they're looking for

  • Influence product direction by providing structured feedback on customer requirements and competitive gaps
  • + years in solutions architecture, technical pre-sales, or a senior hands-on: technical role in the following areas: ML Engineering: Building and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) supporting production ML applications and drift monitoring
  • AI Engineering: Working with LLMs and agentic systems, including vector databases, fine-tuning, AI guardrails, and frameworks like LangChain, Hugging Face, or OpenAI APIs
  • Strong coding proficiency in Python and SQL: you must demonstrate live coding, debugging, and solution-building skills