# Staff Solutions Architect, AI
**Company:** [Launchdarkly](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/launchdarkly)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $158K-$257K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Python, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, LLMs, DevOps, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Containers, Launchdarkly, Retool
**Posted:** 2026-04-29
> Leads strategic engagements helping customers implement LaunchDarkly for safe AI-powered application delivery, including feature gating LLMs, agentic workflows, and governance. Requires 10+ years in solutions architecture, programming proficiency, and AI/ML systems experience.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Lead complex Professional Services engagements focused on AI-enabled and traditional software delivery, aligning customer goals with LaunchDarkly best practices.
- Partner with customers to design and implement feature management strategies for AI systems, including LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and internal AI platforms.
- Advise customers on safe rollout patterns for AI, such as progressive exposure, guardrails, kill switches, and experimentation for model behavior and prompts.
- Support customers building and operating chatbots, copilots, and agent-based systems, helping them integrate LaunchDarkly into inference-time and workflow-level decisions.
- Apply a consultative approach to understand customer architectures, gather detailed requirements, and influence key technical and organizational decisions.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to engineering, platform, DevOps, and AI leaders.
- Identify and resolve technical obstacles that hinder value realization, particularly in complex, distributed, or AI-driven systems.
- Establish yourself as a subject matter expert on LaunchDarkly and emerging AI delivery patterns, continuously evolving your expertise as the landscape changes.
- Advocate for customers by synthesizing feedback and collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to shape future AI-related capabilities.

## Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise software, platform engineering, or solutions architecture roles.
- Strong hands-on technical background with a consultative, customer-focused approach.
- Experience implementing and advising across the full software development lifecycle in enterprise environments.
- Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, including **Python**, **Java**, **JavaScript/Node.js**, **Go**, or similar.
- Experience working with low code/no code solutions i.e. **Claude Code**, **Cursor**, **Retool** etc.
- Experience working with AI/ML-enabled systems, such as:
  - **Large Language Models (LLMs)**
  - Prompt-driven or agentic workflows
  - Chatbots, copilots, or conversational interfaces
  - Model or prompt experimentation and evaluation
- Familiarity with AI development tooling and datasets, including Python-based data workflows.
- Understanding of **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** or similar approaches to tool-augmented or agent-based AI systems (or strong interest in learning).
- Ability to guide customers in **DevOps**, **CI/CD**, and modern release practices, including experimentation and progressive delivery.
- Experience leading teams through development or platform transformations.
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of information and provide prescriptive technical recommendations.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements while prioritizing effectively.
- Experience in both pre-sales and post-sales customer engagements.
- Experience with LaunchDarkly or other feature management / experimentation platforms.
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (**AWS**, **Azure**, or **GCP**).
- Experience working with **Linux**, **containers**, and virtualized environments.
- Open to 20% travel

## Compensation
Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones for Level P5:
- **Zone 1**: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $187,000 - $257,000
- **Zone 2**: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $168,000 - $231,000
- **Zone 3**: All other US locations - $158,000 - $218,000

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
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