Field Architect – Federal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Design AIStor deployments for federal clients across various environments, including on-premises, air-gapped, sovereign cloud, and tactical edge, focusing on erasure coding, tiering, and replication topology design.

• Act as the technical expert on FIPS 140-3, FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, and Zero Trust compliance.

• Lead proofs of value, technical demonstrations, and reference architecture design for Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and civilian agency opportunities.

• Offer technical training and architecture support to federal resellers, systems integrators, and technology ecosystem partners.

• Function as the technical point of contact for collaborative architecture projects with partners such as NVIDIA, Databricks, and Supermicro.

• Oversee the deployment of AIStor across Kubernetes distributions, including OpenShift and Rancher.

• Design data infrastructure for AI training, fine-tuning, and large-scale data lake operations.

• Provide advice on inference and agentic AI architecture to minimize recompute overhead and optimize GPU usage.

• Create reference architectures, technical white papers, and solution briefs to support Federal Partner Sales and partner initiatives.

• Collaborate with Federal Partner Sales, Engineering, Support, channel and systems integrator partners, and technology ecosystem partners from proof of value through to production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience in a solutions architect, sales engineering, or field engineering position, preferably within cloud, storage, or federal systems integration.

• Active security clearance is strongly preferred; the ability to obtain a clearance is required.

• Extensive technical expertise in object storage (S3-compatible platforms), Kubernetes, and cloud-native/on-prem hybrid architectures.

• Knowledge of GPU-accelerated infrastructure and the data/memory requirements of large-scale AI training and inference workloads.

• Understanding of federal compliance frameworks (FIPS 140-3, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP) and environments for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community deployments (air-gapped, classified, DDIL).

• Strong technical proficiency with the ability to effectively convey complex architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience collaborating with or alongside channel partners, federal systems integrators, and technology ecosystem partners (e.g., NVIDIA, Databricks) is an advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)

• 401K with 3% Contribution

• Pre-IPO Stock Options

• At least 12 Public Holidays

• Flexible Time Off