Solutions Architect

• Code Metal is looking for a Solutions Architect to sit at the intersection of customer needs, technical strategy, and growth - shaping ambiguous opportunities into credible system architectures and executable plans
• This role leads technical discovery, defines solution direction and success criteria, and aligns customer and internal teams before and throughout proof-of-concept execution
• Lead technical discovery with customers, identifying the mission or business problem, system constraints, decision criteria, and the role Code Metal should play in the solution
• Define candidate system architectures and evaluate alternatives through analysis, trade studies, feasibility assessments, and targeted technical spikes
• Translate ambiguous problems into credible technical approaches, system concepts, success criteria, statements of work, and proposal content
• Own the technical shape of proofs of concept (PoCs): scope the work, define interfaces and success criteria, make key architectural decisions, and guide Solutions Engineers through execution
• Design evaluations and PoCs that expose Code Metal’s product differentiators and give customers a clear basis for technical and commercial decisions
• Work across growth, Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, product, core engineering, and research to align customer commitments with product capabilities and roadmap direction

Benefits

• Relocation assistance for qualifying employees
• Paid Time Off (Uncapped Vacation, plus Sick & Public Holidays)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Flexible hybrid work arrangement

• Technically curious people who can quickly explore unfamiliar domains, identify the important constraints, and synthesize viable architectures
• Architects who combine strong technical judgment with enough hands-on depth to challenge assumptions and guide execution
• Ability to quickly context switch between topics, customers, and workstreams
• Engineering leaders who enjoy turning loosely defined opportunities into real systems
• A strong technical background is required, whether your experience comes from engineering, research, or technical business roles. You will often lead the earliest technical engagement with a customer and determine where Code Metal can create a differentiated, feasible solution
• Strong technical background in computer science, engineering, physics, or a related field
• Self-starter with an ability to operate independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead architecture discussions and develop clear technical proposals and statements of work
• Experience leading technical discovery with customers and shaping successful solution architectures, evaluations, or proofs of concept
• Strong systems thinking, tradeoff analysis, and problem decomposition skills
• Ability to quickly learn about unfamiliar domains and synthesize new technical information
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed (est. 20%-40% travel)
• Architecture & Technical Knowledge: Designs and implements changes to single systems, collaborates on larger designs, and drives architecture reviews for multi-developer projects
• Architecture & Technical Knowledge: Provides architectural guidance across the department and invents paradigms that solve CodeMetal-specific domain problems (e.g., translation, optimization, deployment across target environments); a key resource on every major system
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: A go-to technical reviewer for the team’s codebase; mentors and onboards teammates; contributes to interviews and candidate experience
• Architecture & Technical Knowledge: Designs cross-cutting changes across the stack; provides architectural guidance across the team; owns design docs for major multi-service or multi-surface projects
• This role is open at Senior, Staff, or Principal level. The expectations below describe how scope, ownership, and technical leadership differ by level; candidates are evaluated against the level they are hired into
• Engineering Craft & Code Quality: Writes clean, idiomatic, well-tested code/output and follows best practices; drives debugging of the team’s hardest issues; ensures AI-assisted work is correct, modular, and fully tested
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: The primary technical gatekeeper for the team’s codebase; reviews most high-impact work; leads technical grooming, design spikes, and RFCs; coordinates across pods when changes cross domain boundaries
• Years of Experience: 10+
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: An active driver of company-wide architectural reviews and proposals; mentors mid-level and senior staff at scale; influences others across departments toward the best technical outcome
• Senior:
• Delivery, Scoping & De-risking: Owns technical scoping and execution strategy for complex, multi-sprint initiatives; audits requirements for technical risk and hidden dependencies before development begins
• Staff:
• Principal:
• Delivery, Scoping & De-risking: A consistent contributor to the company’s technical roadmap; gives reliable estimates for large cross-team initiatives; ensures pragmatic scoping toward the most valuable outcomes
• Engineering Craft & Code Quality: Sets the quality and correctness bar across the department; their work is the example others learn from; improves the automated systems and practices that ensure quality department-wide
• Years of Experience: 5+
• Years of Experience: 7+
• Engineering Craft & Code Quality: Defines and enforces the team’s testing strategy, standards, and quality bar; ensures AI-generated output is tightly integrated into existing paradigms and robustly tested
• Delivery, Scoping & De-risking: Works with Product to scope and de-risk work; provides reliable estimates for medium-sized projects with clear risk communication
• Experience architecting complex systems that span software, hardware, interfaces, and operational constraints
• Broad cross-domain software experience in one or more of the following: C/C++, Rust, Python, Verilog/VHDL, MATLAB, CUDA/OpenCL
• Experience working with U.S. Government programs or dual-use technologies
• Real-world edge computing or embedded experience where software, hardware, and physical systems intersect
• Active U.S. security clearance (Secret or Top Secret), or eligibility to obtain one