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# Solutions Architect at OpenTeams

- **Company:** OpenTeams
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/openteams/jobs/4729704005

## Job description

## Who We Are

Every organization runs on intelligence: years of accumulated knowledge, decisions, and context. As AI takes on more of that work, companies face a choice: rent that intelligence from vendors who keep the data, the context, and the results, or own it.

OpenTeams exists to make ownership possible.

Founded by Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, and built by people with deep roots across the open-source ecosystem, including NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, and Jupyter, we help enterprises and governments build AI they control, govern, and evolve themselves.

If that sounds like your kind of work, we'd like to meet you.

Solutions Architect

Location: This is a U.S.-remote position, with preference given to candidates in the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Work Authorization: U.S. citizenship required

Clearance: Candidates must be eligible and willing to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance, which includes a federal background investigation.

Salary Range: $145,000–$250,000 USD, dependent on experience level and location

## About the Role

We’re seeking a Solutions Architect to own the end-to-end technical design of a secure AI test and evaluation platform supporting Government teams responsible for assessing AI systems before fielding.

The program spans shared evaluation interfaces, dataset and model tooling, ML infrastructure, web services, and the packaging and delivery systems used to deploy capabilities into secure Government environments. This role ensures those components form a coherent, scalable, secure, and interoperable technical solution.

You’ll establish architecture standards, make build-versus-buy-versus-adopt decisions across the open-source landscape, resolve cross-cutting technical decisions, and guide the solution from initial concept through deployment and sustainment. You’ll also serve as a senior technical advisor to Government stakeholders and internal engineering teams.

## Key Responsibilities

- Architect and maintain comprehensive system blueprints, strategic technology roadmaps, and foundational design principles for sophisticated open-source artificial intelligence solutions.
- Design and govern interface standards to guarantee seamless integration between platform services, evaluation frameworks, underlying infrastructure, and third-party systems.
- Assess emerging open-source and commercial technologies, thoroughly documenting trade-offs regarding technical feasibility, operations, security posture, and long-term viability.
- Deliver strategic recommendations on build, buy, or adopt decisions across the software portfolio.
- Incorporate public-sector hosting, identity management, cybersecurity, compliance accreditation, and integration mandates into core system designs from project inception.
- Conduct cross-functional engineering design reviews to resolve complex architectural dependencies and align team initiatives.
- Institute enterprise architecture standards, repeatable software patterns, security guardrails, and rigorous design review workflows.
- Serve as the primary technical advocate during public-sector design reviews, program reviews, and strategic partner engagements.
- Convert high-level mission goals, program objectives, and security policies into actionable technical tasks for development teams.
- Offer high-level technical guidance on open-source ecosystems including PyTorch, JAX, Ray, Kubeflow, MCP, and open-weights foundation models.
- Pinpoint, formalize, and proactively neutralize technical risks across every stage of the software life cycle.
- Drive business development and proposal efforts by authoring technical architecture documentation, effort estimates, roadmaps, and statements of work.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, machine learning, data engineering, security, and software teams to ensure unified implementation of target designs.
- Steer technical solutions from production deployment through operational testing, acceptance, and long-term sustainment.
- Advise engineering staff and tech leads, driving decisive, structured engineering practices throughout the organization

Required Skills & Experience

- Must hold U.S. citizenship and maintain eligibility for Secret clearance authorization.
- Eight or more years delivering enterprise-grade software engineering solutions.
- At least three years leading end-to-end platform design and technical strategy.
- Proven track record building and deploying production distributed cloud architectures.
- Comprehensive mastery spanning CI/CD, modern package distribution, machine learning platforms, data pipelines, and API services.
- Specialized domain mastery in MLOps, generative AI, agentic systems, or cloud infrastructure, paired with practical familiarity across adjacent technical domains.
- Advanced Python proficiency complemented by rigorous knowledge of object-oriented design, architectural patterns, and systemic software fundamentals.
- Demonstrated success establishing contract interface specifications, foundational engineering roadmaps, and org-wide design standards.
- Experience conducting thorough technical evaluations and documenting strategic build-versus-buy trade-offs.
- Adept at proactively resolving enterprise challenges involving system security, high availability, resilience, and operational scalability.
- History of steering cross-functional initiatives across multi-disciplinary engineering groups.
- Exceptional communication capabilities for articulating technical topics to both executive leadership and engineering peers.
- Skilled at translating complex technical choices, system risks, and structural trade-offs for diverse public-sector and executive audiences.
- Self-directed contributor with a strong ability to drive outcomes within remote, decentralized team environments.

## Nice to Have

- Demonstrated history architecting solutions for defense, intelligence, or federal defense initiatives.
- Working knowledge of modern public-sector software paradigms, including Platform One and defense DevSecOps frameworks.
- Proven track record engineering system infrastructure for air-gapped, isolated, or security-restricted networks.
- Background designing artificial intelligence validation infrastructure, data management tooling, and evaluation pipelines.
- Practical familiarity with Risk Management Framework protocols, authority to operate standards, and accredited system boundaries.
- Active engagement in open-source ecosystems through core maintainership, pull requests, technical blogging, or conference engagement.
- Direct experience leveraging the PyData and Scientific Python software stack.
- Proven capabilities in technical consulting, solution advisory, or client-facing architectural roles.
- Possessing a current or prior federal security clearance.

Grow With Us

At OpenTeams, growth isn’t just about the company—it’s about you.

We believe the best careers are built at the edge of your potential. That is where new tools, ideas, and technologies change the world. Here, you’ll work alongside pioneers of AI, solving problems that matter: making AI more transparent, more ethical, and more empowering. As your skills grow, our career framework provides a pathway and recognition of that increased impact.

Opportunities aren’t limited by geography. You’ll collaborate with global experts, contribute to open source projects that power the world’s technology, and stretch your skills daily.  That global perspective and diversity makes our solution more universal and robust.  We are committed to continuing to celebrate diversity on our team.

Supported people are successful people.  We offer 100% employer paid medical premiums for employees and self-managed PTO with a minimum time off requirement, so that our teams are able to do their best work.

We invest  in curiosity, creativity, and ownership. That means you’ll be trusted to boldly innovate, supported to learn fast, and celebrated for successful collaboration.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

OpenTeams understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge is crucial to and enriches the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, disabled people, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.

We are an equal opportunity employer - all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for recruitment, interviews, employment, training, compensation, promotion, and related activities. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. OpenTeams will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

## About OpenTeams

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenTeams helps organizations design, build, and operate fully owned AI systems using modular, open-source infrastructure, enabling them to move from renting to owning their AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Total funding $7.1M across Pre-Seed, Venture Round, and Debt Financing; acquired Quansight’s AI consulting division in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Travis Oliphant (CEO & Co-Founder), Dharhas Pothina (CTO & Co-Founder), Matt Harward (CRO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI infrastructure, open-source software deployment, enterprise consulting, government/defense AI solutions
- **Target customers**: Enterprise, Government (including U.S. Department of Defense), Research institutions, BioTech, Energy, Financial services – primarily B2B, with a mix of mid-market and large enterprise
- **Mission**: “AI you own” – building accountable, auditable, and fully owned AI systems rather than renting from hyperscalers.

## Products & Services
- **[Nebari®](https://openteams.com/)**: An open-source AI hub that serves as the private infrastructure layer for an organization’s models, data, workflows, and institutional knowledge. Fully controlled and owned by the customer. Listed as a JATIC product supporting DoD AI development.
- **[Collab Desktop App](https://openteams.com/)**: A free application for publishing, discovering, consuming, and sharing agentic workflows and AI capabilities. Designed to participate in a distributed applied AI economy built on open standards.
- **[Enterprise Deployment](https://openteams.com/)**: Full-service consulting and support – includes building the system, training internal teams, and ongoing support. Emphasizes that ownership stays with the customer, not the vendor.
- **[Intelligence Hub Connect](https://openteams.com/)**: Secure integration layer that connects partners, vendors, and data providers on the organization’s terms, controlling data flow while maintaining ownership.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metrics**:
  - Annual Revenue: ~$11.0M (LinkedIn estimate, as of mid-2025)
  - Total Funding: $7.13M (Pre-Seed $100K led by Sputnik ATX; Venture Round $3.0M in Nov 2021; Debt Financing $4.0M in June 2023)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sputnik ATX (lead investor in pre-seed); strategic partner Quansight (AI consulting division acquired March 2025); partner with the Open-Source AI Foundation (O-SAIF) for government AI safety.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 73 employees, +106.8% year-over-year growth (+47 people in one year)
  - Operations in 13 countries (US, Canada, UK, Kenya, India, Brazil, etc.)
  - Appointed Lt. Gen (Ret) Ross Coffman to Board of Directors (June 2025)
  - Acquired Quansight’s AI consulting division (March 2025), adding ~25 people from Quansight
  - Listed as a JATIC product for the U.S. Department of Defense next-gen toolchain

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder pedigree**: Travis Oliphant created NumPy and SciPy – foundational tools for modern AI – and previously founded Anaconda and Quansight. This gives OpenTeams deep credibility and institutional knowledge in open-source AI infrastructure.
- **Open-source DNA**: OpenTeams builds, maintains, and contributes to open-source projects; customers get transparency and flexibility without vendor lock-in.
- **“Owned Intelligence” model**: Unlike hyperscalers or SaaS vendors, OpenTeams ensures organizations own their AI models, data, and infrastructure – no hidden dependencies, no third-party control.
- **Forward-deployed engineering model**: “An army of forward-deployed engineers” that builds and maintains solutions inside the customer’s environment, training internal teams and ensuring continuous ownership.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling government and defense contracts**: Nebari’s inclusion in JATIC and partnership with O-SAIF signal strong push into U.S. government and defense markets.
- **Expanding the distributed AI ecosystem**: Through the Collab Desktop App and Applied AI Society, OpenTeams aims to build a global community of applied AI engineers and a networked private ecosystem.
- **Post-acquisition integration**: Absorbing Quansight’s consulting talent to deepen enterprise delivery capacity.
- **International growth**: Headcount is diversifying across North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia – with active hiring for roles like Senior Solutions Architect in the EU.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering-led culture**: Founded by a legendary open-source developer; strong technical team with 40% of staff in technical roles (engineering, infrastructure, AI).
- **Remote and hybrid flexibility**: While the headquarters is in Austin and “on-site workspace” is noted, many roles are posted as remote (e.g., Senior Solutions Architect – UK, Founding Lead Engineer – remote U.S.). The company operates across 13 countries, suggesting a distributed-first approach.
- **Growth trajectory**: 106% headcount growth YoY and recent acquisition signal fast scaling – employees can grow into new roles and leadership.
- **Meaningful mission**: Work on AI that organizations truly own, not rent – appealing to engineers who value open-source, privacy, and ethical AI.
- **Diverse global team**: Employees from six continents; the company actively hires from a variety of talent pools.

## Sources
1. [openteams.com](https://openteams.com/) – Homepage and product overview
2. [openteams.com/about-us](https://openteams.com/about-us/) – Founders, team, beliefs
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/openteams) – LinkedIn company page (employees, revenue, funding, recent news)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/openteams) – Culture, careers, and perks overview
5. [greenhouse.io](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/openteams) – Current job openings and office location

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