About this opportunity
Quick Quack Car Wash lists this AI Solutions Architect opportunity in rocklin, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Pay or shift range: $150,000 USD to $175,000 USD
Based on experience.
Description
Job Summary:
We are seeking a driven AI Solutions Architect to join our team and accelerate the adoption of AI across our teams within the car wash industry. In this cross-functional role, you will embed with our engineering and design teams to understand their processes and pain points, identify high-impact opportunities to apply AI, and take those ideas from concept through a working proof of concept to a finished tool for the individuals or teams to use. You will serve as the primary liaison between Innovation and our Digital Products and Platform teams, ensuring that validated solutions are productionized quickly and built to our standards. Your work will span AI assisted engineering and design pipelines, business analytics that give our customers and field data a voice in
engineering priorities, and forecasting tools that improve how we plan and deliver projects. This is a solutionfocused role rather than a heads-down development role. Success depends on your ability to pull together
stakeholders, data, tooling, and architecture into a complete picture, and to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners alike. By tying every solution to measurable gains in efficiency, quality, and scale, you will play a central role in shaping how Quick Quack leverages AI as we grow.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Lead discovery sessions with business stakeholders to gather requirements, define success criteria, andtranslate needs into technical solution designs
Evaluate, select, and recommend AI platforms, foundation models, tools, and vendors based on fit, cost,performance, and risk
Develop reference architectures, solution blueprints, and technical documentation for AI-enabled systems
Build rapid prototypes and proofs of concept to validate feasibility and business value before full-scale investment
Partner with digital products engineering teams to productionize validated solutions within QQCW's supported languages, security stack, and standards
Own the refinement and evolution of existing tools after initial delivery, driving them toward their full potential rather than letting them stall at the framework stage
Tie solutions to business cases, quantify efficiency gains, quality improvements, and scaling benefits
Collaborate with engineering, product, data, and operations teams throughout the solution lifecycle from design through deployment and support
Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications and Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
5+ years in a solutions architect, technical product, software engineering, engineering leadership, or applied AI role
Deep familiarity with large language models and generative AI platforms (e.g. Anthropic, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI)
Working knowledge of software architecture, APIs, data modeling, and integration patterns; able to design and mock a system end to end
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native architecture patterns
Knowledge of AI governance, security, and responsible AI practices including data privacy and model risk
Strong business mindset; comfortable framing work in terms of ROI, efficiency, and scale
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Self-directed and high drive, thrives in ambiguous, loosely defined problem spaces and takes ownership through to completion
If you are tasked to drive as a part of this role, then it is required that you have a clean driving record and a current Driver's License that is not suspended or expired.
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
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Worksite address
rocklin, CA, 95765, US
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