AI Solution Architect
About the job
- Experience designing and delivering AI and software engineering projects, including hands-on knowledge of AI tools and services such as BedRock, Anthropic, and Azure.
- Experience with cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
- Experience designing APIs, integrations, event-driven systems, and scalable application architectures.
- Ability to solve complex technical and business challenges through structured analysis and practical solutions.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders, product teams, and technical teams to align priorities and deliver outcomes.
- Ability to learn and adapt in a rapidly evolving technology environment.
- Serve as a technical architect for multiple AI projects, owning end-to-end design across the full stack, including data, models, backend services, APIs, front-end experiences, and cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with product owners to shape the AI architecture and roadmap, prioritize work by value, and steward the product lifecycle from concept through deployment and adoption.
- Work directly with customers and stakeholders to understand their needs, translate them into technical solutions, and ensure those solutions deliver measurable business value.
- Consider how AI and automation can reinvent existing processes and capabilities; partner across teams to help leaders understand possibilities, ideate solutions, and rapidly prototype them.
- Develop full-stack AI and automation solutions, setting technical direction through working code, reference architectures, and reusable design patterns.
- Identify technical, delivery, and adoption challenges early and develop strategies to optimize costs and risks effectively.
- Express ideas and actively listen across technical and non-technical audiences, provide regular updates, and seek continuous feedback.
- Grow the knowledge and experience of other team members, fostering continuous learning and professional development.
- Track emerging AI technologies and advocate for their adoption where they create real value.
- Understand generative AI technologies and their practical applications.
- Experience with identity, security, authentication, or enterprise integration patterns.
- Experience with container platforms and Kubernetes.
- Knowledge of AWS services, including Application Load Balancers, AWS Fargate, DynamoDB, and S3.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and platform engineering practices.
- Experience developing in React or other modern user interface frameworks.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and emerging technical leaders.
About the company
Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, Kansas
Founded
1940
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Koch raised $224.4 million in equity financing on March 10, 2026, preserving dry powder.
- Koch's Africa fertilizer foothold expands global phosphate reach from Morocco's Jorf complex.
- Closed Tacoma gypsum plant concentrates capital into stronger Georgia-Pacific assets and higher-margin lines.
What critics are saying
- DOJ opened a fertilizer antitrust probe in March 2026, risking criminal charges and damages.
- Farmers filed class actions in March and June 2026 against Koch Agronomic Services.
- Georgia-Pacific will close Tacoma's gypsum plant on October 30, 2026, cutting 125 jobs.
What makes Koch Industries unique
- Private since 1940, Koch reinvests earnings for decades, not quarterly Wall Street optics.
- Koch Fertilizer expanded into Morocco on June 30, 2026 through Jorf Fertilizers ownership.
- Georgia-Pacific and Koch Agronomic Services give Koch integrated positions across packaging and fertilizers.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
- Paid Vacation
- Professional Development Budget
- Fertility Treatment Support
- Parental Leave
- Adoption Assistance
- Hybrid Work Options