Solution Architect - Autonomous Systems & Industrial Base (ComS058)
Defenseunicorns · San Francisco Or Los Angeles, CA
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**Solutions Architect - Autonomous Systems & Industrial Base (ComS058)** **Role Overview** Defense Unicorns is seeking a Solutions Architect to work with autonomous systems manufacturers, Federal Systems Integrators, and commercial technology companies delivering capabilities into the Federal defense market. This role sits at the intersection of customer mission needs, complex hardware platforms, and modern cloud-native software. You’ll facilitate technical and strategic conversations to understand systems, identify integration opportunities, and define how cloud-native software, data transport technologies, and modern software deployment patterns can be incorporated into drones, satellites, weapons systems, and other mission-critical platforms. The ideal candidate can move between executive-level conversations, system architecture discussions, and hands-on technical discovery—translating mission and business requirements into practical architectures for constrained, disconnected, intermittent, and bandwidth-limited environments. **Key Responsibilities** - Facilitate technical discovery and architecture conversations with autonomous drone manufacturers, Federal Systems Integrators, defense technology companies, and mid-sized commercial companies pursuing federal opportunities. - Understand customer platforms, mission requirements, existing software architecture, data flows, deployment models, and operational constraints. - Identify where cloud-native technologies can improve development, deployment, management, and sustainment of software across edge and mission-critical environments. - Design and communicate architectures for deploying and operating cloud-native applications in distributed, edge, disconnected, and resource-constrained environments. - Help customers understand how data transport, synchronization, messaging, and software distribution support information movement between tactical edge systems, platforms, and enterprise environments. - Map Defense Unicorns capabilities and broader cloud-native technologies to customer use cases and system architectures. - Partner with engineering, product, sales, and business development teams to translate customer requirements into technical solutions and product opportunities. - Develop reference architectures, technical diagrams, integration approaches, demonstrations, and proofs of concept. - Support Federal Systems Integrators and technology partners in incorporating Defense Unicorns solutions into larger federal programs and platform architectures. - Help commercial technology companies understand technical, architectural, and operational considerations for deploying into federal/defense environments. - Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout evaluation, integration, and adoption. - Capture recurring customer requirements and market signals to inform Defense Unicorns product and technical strategy. **What Success Looks Like** You can quickly understand how a customer’s system operates—where software and data move through the architecture—and where modern cloud-native approaches create meaningful operational value. You’ll help customers move from broad questions (e.g., bringing cloud-native software to a platform) to concrete architectures for packaging, transporting, deploying, updating, securing, and operating applications across the system. **Desired Experience** - Experience designing or supporting distributed, cloud-native, edge, or mission-critical software systems
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