Senior Solutions Architect, AI

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA. Proactive security starts here. TrendMicro.com Location: The ideal candidate will be located in Remote, Texas.

Position Summary: Trend Micro is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, AI who is passionate

about:

cutting-edge artificial intelligence, responsible security, and architecting scalable solutions. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in direct customer engagement, excels at solving complex technical challenges, and is energized by accelerating AI-powered transformation within enterprise environments.

You will partner closely across Solutions Architecture, Product, Engineering, Data Science, Channel, Marketing, and Customer Success to guide organizations through their AI adoption journey. Your influence will help customers integrate AI safely and responsibly unlocking value while reducing risk and driving measurable outcomes.

As a trusted AI and cybersecurity advisor, you will shape solutions across the customer lifecycle: from discovery and design to deployment, orchestration, optimization, and operational maturity. You will act as the bridge between visionary customer goals and our platform’s end-to-end AI, security, and automation capabilities, enabling long-term adoption and advocacy.

We are looking for individuals who embody humility, hunger, and people-smart instincts. The strongest candidates bring clarity, energy, and deep technical credibility to every customer interaction.

Responsibilities:

Serve as the primary AI architecture advisor and trusted technical partner for enterprise customers, guiding them through responsible AI adoption, LLM integration, automation, and security design.

• Develop a deep understanding of customers’ AI strategies, use cases, and risk profiles to align platform capabilities with measurable business, productivity, and security outcomes.
• Lead high-impact technical conversations including architecture deep dives, demos, whiteboard sessions, and LLM strategy workshops for both technical and executive stakeholders.

Architect secure, scalable AI solutions leveraging cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), enterprise data frameworks, identity and access controls, and Zero Trust principles.

• Design reference architectures for AI-assisted security, generative AI automation, cloud threat analytics, and AI-enabled SOC or platform operations.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to map customer

requirements:

into platform capabilities informing feature prioritization, roadmaps, beta design, and partner integrations. Represent the company as an AI thought leader in field engagements, industry forums, webinars, partner events, and executive briefings.

• Build scalable enablement content: reference patterns, technical diagrams, demos, workshop materials, and best-practice guides for internal teams, partners, and customers.
• Lead or support Proof of Value (POV) and Proof of Concept (POC) initiatives, ensuring clear success criteria and quantifiable business and technical validation.
• Provide structured feedback to Product Management on customer challenges, AI trends, and competitive gaps helping evolve the platform, GTM strategy, and partner ecosystem.
• Maintain deep knowledge of AI, LLMOps, cloud-native platforms, security architecture, and emerging innovations to continuously elevate our technical leadership.

Travel within the U.S. for customer engagements, strategic initiatives, and industry events.

Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

5+ years in Solutions Architect, AI Architect, Cloud Architect, Sales/Pre-Sales Engineer, or advanced technical consulting roles. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

experience:

in computer science, AI/ML, cybersecurity, cloud engineering, or related fields. Proven

experience:

engaging technical decision makers and executives across enterprise environments. Expertise in public cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) including identity, networking, computer, and data services. Strong understanding of: Applied AI / LLM architectures Model serving & orchestration Prompt engineering & retrieval techniques Data governance and security Broad technical acumen across cybersecurity, cloud, DevOps, networking, automation, and enterprise modernization.

• Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn new technologies in a fast-evolving AI and security ecosystem.

Excellent communication and storytelling

skills:

, capable of translating complex architecture into compelling customer value. Proven passion for

education:

, technical demos, enablement, and helping others unlock capability at scale. Bonus

Qualifications:

Experience:

working in fast-paced SaaS, cloud, or cybersecurity companies or startup environments. Familiarity with AI infrastructure technologies such as: LLMOps frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Haystack) Vector DBs (Pinecone, Milvus, Chroma) Model serving (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure AI) Hands-on

experience:

with automation, APIs, scripting, or lightweight coding (Python, Typescript, Bash, PowerShell).

Experience:

• conducting AI discovery workshops, maturity assessments, or strategic modernization programs.

Background in threat detection, DevSecOps, cloud operations, or security analytics.

Experience:

• supporting or enabling partners: MSSPs, GSIs, hyperscalers, or ISVs.

Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, GDPR). Strong technical storytelling

skills:

—able to simplify complex concepts into strategic business outcomes. Enthusiasm for mentoring, coaching, and peer-enablement.

Experience:

applying AI/ML to cybersecurity, automation, observability, or posture analytics. Preferred Certifications AWS Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), Azure Solutions Architect, or GCP Professional Cloud Architect. AI / Data Certifications: TensorFlow, PyTorch, AWS Machine Learning, Azure AI Engineer, GCP Professional Machine Learning Engineer CISSP, CCSP, Security+, CySA+, or other ISACA/ISC2 certifications.

Kubernetes, DevOps, or Cloud Security specialization certifications. What Top Candidates Love

About:

This Role High-impact visibility across strategic customers, platform leadership, and executive stakeholders. The

opportunity:

to influence cloud and AI strategy using real customer insights, not theoretical use cases. Frequent interaction with technical experts, engineering teams, and C-level audiences. Hands-on ownership in shaping the future of AI-assisted security and enterprise automation. A culture that values humility, innovation, customer outcomes, and continuous learning.

Mission-driven work—helping customers accelerate AI adoption responsibly, securely, and confidently.

What We:

Offer You: You're important to us. What matters to you, matters to us too. Trend Micro provides benefit options for you and your family. Here some of the top-rated

benefits:

that employees enjoy today: Comprehensive health

benefits:

and paid time off package Pre-partum, maternity, parental, medical leave and adoption assistance Mental Health Wellness Program & Annual Wellness Incentive 401(k) with company match Pet Insurance Collaborative and innovative culture We are committed to fostering a professional, respectful, and inclusive work environment that promotes collaboration and high performance.

We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives and welcome candidates who bring unique strengths and

experience:

s. If you’re excited

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this role and believe you can contribute and grow with us, we encourage you to apply. Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender. This position does not offer sponsorship for work permit applications or renewals, either now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship, both currently and moving forward.

The company will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this role (including, but not limited to, H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa). #LI-BM1 At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world.

Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro provides equal employment

opportunity:

for all applicants and employees. Trend Micro does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy and childbirth or related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care leave status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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This single-minded passion has inspired our innovations that keep up with the bad guys despite a changing IT landscape, riskier user behavior, and constantly evolving threats. We embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe.

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