Solutions Architect, Southeast Asia

The role

You will help AI startups and enterprises across Southeast Asia adopt Milvus and Zilliz Cloud. You will work with Sales, Engineering and Product on vector search, RAG and AI agent solutions, from technical discovery and proof of concept to production.

What you will do

• Drive technical sales engagements with Account Executives.
• Design scalable solutions using Milvus and Zilliz Cloud.
• Lead POCs and technical evaluations with clear success criteria.
• Support customers in moving from evaluation to production.
• Build technical relationships with developers, architects and decision-makers.
• Work with Engineering and Product to resolve customer challenges.
• Develop demos, reference architectures and enablement materials.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering or a comparable technical customer-facing role.
• Strong foundation in distributed systems, databases and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on technical ability with APIs, code or scripts, logs and metrics, and performance benchmarks.
• Experience translating customer requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Proven ability to lead technical evaluations or POCs and influence customer decisions.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• High ownership and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Strong English communication skills.
• Willingness to travel within Southeast Asia.

Nice to have

• Experience with vector databases, distributed databases, search technologies or large-scale data platforms.
• Familiarity with RAG, embeddings, AI agents, semantic search or AI/ML application architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes or cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience supporting enterprise customers or AI-native startups across Southeast Asia.
• Proficiency in an additional Southeast Asian language.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance for employees and eligible family members.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Competitive cash compensation and long-term incentives, including stock options.
• 401(k) with company match.

Before you apply

• Zilliz is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

About the company

Zilliz builds data infrastructure for AI, founded in 2017 by the creators of Milvus, an open-source vector database. The company has raised $113 million in funding and serves enterprise customers worldwide.