Senior Forward-Deployed Solutions Architect Austin, TX

About Us

webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation. Our mission is to build a future where a company’s valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models.

We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business. We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI.

The Senior Forward-Deployed Solutions Architect works at the intersection of client operations, product, and engineering to design end-to-end intelligent systems that deliver real operational value. Partnering directly with customers, this role translates current workflows and pain points into scalable architectures across hardware, software, AI models, data, and user interfaces—often in real-time, latency-sensitive environments. While initially embedded with an anchor client in food manufacturing, this role represents a core capability at webAI and requires someone who has shipped real systems, understands enterprise environments, and can drive outcomes through ambiguity with strong technical judgment and clear communication.

• Design the end-to-end intelligence architecture that supports perception, reasoning, and actualization in real operational environments.
• Map current-state systems, data flows, workflows, and equipment signals, and translate them into a clear future-state architecture.
• Define how sensors, models, algorithms, workflows, and user interfaces work together to support real-time decision-making.
• Work directly with client operators, supervisors, engineers, and leadership to understand pain points and prioritize work based on business value.
• Evaluate tradeoffs between custom solutions, product extensions, platform roadmap contributions, and rapid prototypes.
• Partner closely with engineering to ensure designs are buildable, scalable, and aligned with technical constraints.
• Partner with product to influence roadmap decisions based on real-world operational needs and reusable capabilities.
• Guide ML, software, and frontend engineers by defining requirements, data schemas, interface logic, and system interactions.
• Ensure solutions are grounded in reliability, safety, and clear user value, especially in latency- and uptime-sensitive environments.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly and plainly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document system architectures, workflows, dependencies, and decision logic for internal teams and clients.
• Identify risks early and propose mitigation strategies before they become blockers.
• Serve as the technical owner for the first 3–6 months of implementation for major customer deployments.

• Experience architecting complex systems that integrate software, data, and AI components.
• Demonstrated experience shipping production systems and building real, working software.
• Strong understanding of enterprise environments, including system integrations, infrastructure, and data pipelines.
• Experience designing or integrating real-time or near-real-time workflow systems, ideally with embedded or edge constraints.
• Proficiency in data modeling, event-driven architectures, and system decomposition.
• Ability to map current-state workflows and design future-state systems aligned to business value.
• Experience balancing custom client work with productized and platform-level capabilities.
• Comfort leading technical discovery sessions with clients and translating findings into actionable designs.
• Strong…