LaunchDarkly · 1 day ago
Staff Solutions Architect - AI
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$187K/yr - $257K/yr
10+ years expLaunchDarkly is a company focused on modern software delivery, helping developers innovate on new features while ensuring safety and reliability. The Staff Solutions Architect - AI will lead strategic engagements to assist customers in adopting AI-powered applications, guiding them through implementations and best practices for AI delivery and governance.
Developer ToolsDevOpsSoftwareTest and Measurement
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Mental health benefits
Company
LaunchDarkly
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$330.3MKey Investors
Lead Edge CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersRedpoint
2021-08-10Series D· $200M
2020-01-16Series Unknown· $54M
2019-03-13Series C· $44M
Leadership Team
Edith Harbaugh
Chief Executive Officer
John Kodumal
CTO and Cofounder
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