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title: 'VP, Solutions Architect - AWS at Robots and Pencils'
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# VP, Solutions Architect - AWS at Robots and Pencils

- **Company:** Robots and Pencils
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils/jobs/5343342008

## Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a seasoned AWS AI Solutions Architect to lead the design and delivery of complex, enterprise-grade generative and agentic AI systems built on Amazon Web Services. You will architect scalable, secure, and production-ready AI platforms leveraging Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AWS AgentCore Gateway, Nova Forge, Nova 2 Sonic, and related AWS AI/ML services.

As an AWS AI Solutions Architect, you will serve as a strategic technical advisor—translating ambiguity into structured AWS-native architectures, validating designs through hands-on prototyping, and ensuring every solution aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Framework (including ML Lens) while delivering measurable business value.

## Key Responsibilities

Client Engagement & AWS Solutions Architecture

- Serve as the primary AWS AI architecture partner for strategic clients, driving generative and agentic AI system design from discovery through production.
- Lead architecture design using Amazon Bedrock (including foundation models and custom models), Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, and AWS AgentCore Gateway.
- Design advanced RAG, Agentic RAG, and multi-agent orchestration architectures leveraging AWS-native services such as Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora (pgvector), and OpenSearch.
- Produce AWS reference architectures, architecture decision records (ADRs), and implementation roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
- Validate feasibility through hands-on prototyping in Python using Bedrock SDKs, SageMaker, and serverless services.
- Ensure architectures follow AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, VPC, PrivateLink) and cost optimization principles.

Outcome Ownership & Business Impact

- Own architectural integrity from concept through production deployment on AWS.
- Align solutions with AWS Well-Architected Framework pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
- Guide clients through tradeoff decisions across model selection (Bedrock FMs vs custom SageMaker models), latency, cost, governance, and compliance. Accelerate time-to-value through reusable AWS accelerators, Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation/Terraform/CDK), and CI/CD automation.
- Continuously evaluate emerging AWS AI capabilities (Nova Forge, Nova 2 Sonic, Bedrock updates, and new AgentCore capabilities).

Engineering Leadership & Delivery Excellence

- Provide architectural oversight to Forward Deployed Engineers and AWS delivery teams.
- Establish best practices for MLOps on AWS including model lifecycle management, monitoring, and observability using SageMaker, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.
- Define governance, responsible AI guardrails, Bedrock Guardrails configuration, and security controls for enterprise environments.
- Mentor engineers on AWS AI service integration, distributed systems design, and secure multi-account strategies.
- Make principled tradeoffs under constraints related to privacy, compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR), cost, and operational complexity.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Partner with internal product, engineering, research, and customer success teams to evolve AWS-based AI offerings.
- Contribute AWS reference architectures and reusable infrastructure modules to internal accelerators.
- Support pre-sales engagements including architecture workshops, AWS migration strategy, and solution scoping.
- Collaborate across distributed teams and client stakeholders across North America.

Required Skills & Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or cloud architecture with deep AWS ownership.
- Deep expertise in Amazon Bedrock, Bedrock AgentCore, AWS Strands Agents, AgentCore Gateway, and related AWS AI services.
- Strong familiarity with SageMaker (training, deployment, pipelines), deep learning fundamentals, and model fine-tuning strategies.
- Experience architecting RAG, multi-agent, and orchestration systems using AWS-native services.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and serverless patterns.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Hands-on development capability in Python and AWS SDKs.
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring strategies in AWS environments.
- Proven success leading enterprise-scale AWS transformations.
- Exceptional communication skills for both technical and executive audiences.
- AWS Professional Certifications highly preferred (AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer – Professional).

## Nice to Have

- AWS Specialty certifications (Machine Learning – Specialty, Security – Specialty).
- Experience with advanced agentic reasoning patterns (ReAct,CoT, Tree-of-Thoughts) implemented on Bedrock.
- Experience building secure multi-account AWS organizations using Control Tower.
- Exposure to data engineering services such as Glue, Redshift, Lake Formation.
- Consulting or professional services background.

Personal Competencies

- Accountability – Owns AWS architectural direction and client outcomes with rigor.
- Adaptability – Rapidly adopts new AWS AI releases and evolving generative AI capabilities.
- Collaboration – Builds trust across engineering and executive stakeholders.
- Execution-Focused – Balances innovation with production-ready AWS delivery.
- Innovation-Minded – Experiments responsibly with emerging AWS AI services.
- Craftsmanship – Designs secure, scalable, and well-documented AWS systems.
- Leadership with Courage – Drives architectural alignment in complex environments.
- Comfort in Ambiguity – Translates unclear AI requirements into AWS-native solution architectures.

Why Join Robots & Pencils?

We build smart systems for a human world — blending creativity, engineering, and AWS-powered AI to help organizations reimagine how they work. As an AWS AI Solutions Architect, you will shape enterprise-scale generative and agentic AI platforms using the most advanced AWS services available. You will define architectures that deliver measurable business value, mentor teams, and directly influence the evolution of our AWS AI practice.

## About Robots and Pencils

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Robots & Pencils is an Applied AI Engineering Partner that builds generative and agentic AI systems for enterprise clients, taking AI from pilot to production quickly.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Organic Growth)
- **Headquarters**: Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Len Pagon (CEO), Nathan Carmon

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: IT Services and IT Consulting, Applied AI Engineering, Cloud-Native Development
- **Target customers**: Enterprise clients in Financial Services, Healthcare, Education, Energy, Retail & Consumer Goods, High Tech, and Transportation
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We build smart systems for a human world" — blending the logic of machines with the creativity of humans to help organizations modernize platforms, design cloud-native applications, and unlock the real-world value of AI.

## Products & Services
- **Applied AI Engineering**: Building generative and agentic AI systems on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with memory, observability, and security built in from the start. Focused on taking AI from pilot to production quickly.
- **Cloud-Native AWS Modernization**: Re-architecting AWS environments from EC2/ECS to serverless-native infrastructure. Migrating legacy systems to cloud-native AWS, beyond lift-and-shift.
- **The Sharpening Sprint™**: A structured engagement to surface the strongest AI use cases for a client and deliver a sequenced build plan.
- **UX/UI Design & Product Strategy**: A creative team of product owners, researchers, UX designers, and visual designers who craft seamless experiences.
- **Legacy Platform Modernization**: Refactoring aging platforms and designing cloud-native applications across industries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (privately held)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of **$21.5M** (estimated) [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: AWS (Advanced Tier Services Partner and Inaugural AWS Pattern Partner)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~115 employees (+35.1% YoY, +39 people) [ca.linkedin.com](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils); 23,753 LinkedIn followers (+55.2% yearly growth); 77M+ users reached worldwide across launched apps; 25 patents & published works; 5 apps hit #1 in the App Store

## Competitive Advantages
- **Applied AI Engineering Focus**: Specializes exclusively in taking generative and agentic AI from pilot to live, fast — a nimble, high-velocity alternative to traditional global systems integrators.
- **AWS Pattern Partner**: One of only 11 inaugural AWS Pattern Partners selected from the AWS Partner Network, signaling deep technical partnership and trust.
- **Senior-Led Teams**: Operates through small, senior teams (15+ years average experience per team member) rather than massive consulting organizations, ensuring high-quality delivery.
- **Human-Centered Design**: Blends elite engineering talent with world-class UX design, differentiating from pure technical consultancies.
- **Proven Track Record**: 77M+ users reached worldwide, 25 patents & published works, and multiple #1 App Store launches.

## Strategic Focus
- **Agentic AI on AWS**: Building agentic systems on Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with memory, observability, and security built in from the start.
- **Production-Ready AI**: Focused on taking AI from pilot to production in weeks, not months, with a strong emphasis on compliance and regulatory environments (Financial Services, Healthcare).
- **Industry Expansion**: Serving Financial Services, Health Tech, Education, Energy, Retail & Consumer Goods, and High Tech — industries where AI agents create exponential value.
- **Global Delivery Network**: Operating delivery centers across the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, and Latin America to serve enterprise clients worldwide.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "wicked smart, wildly curious, ready to build" — a culture that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact. The company emphasizes "always learning" and invests in personal and professional growth.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid and remote-friendly. "Whether you are co-located in one of our offices or remote first, we prioritize how teams are set up to focus in on collaboration for successful delivery." [robotsandpencils.com](https://robotsandpencils.com/careers/)
- **Benefits**: Salary continuation and protected leave for parents (birth, spouse, and adoptive); health & wellness benefits; flexible hours; paid time off (vacation, sick, personal leave, flexible holidays).
- **Engineering Culture**: Described as a team of "tech wizards creating digital magic" — frontend, backend, mobile, and full-stack developers working on cutting-edge AI and cloud-native projects. The hiring process includes a pre-screen assessment, skills assessment, and deep dive interview to evaluate culture addition, communication, and technical fit.
- **Global Team**: Delivery centers in the U.S., Canada, Ukraine, Colombia, and the Philippines, offering a diverse, international work environment.

## Sources
1. [robotsandpencils.com](https://robotsandpencils.com/)
2. [robotsandpencils.com/about](https://robotsandpencils.com/about/)
3. [robotsandpencils.com/careers](https://robotsandpencils.com/careers/)
4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/robotsandpencils)
5. [ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/robots-and-pencils)

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