Senior Solutions Architect - Automotive

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people packages and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications data SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

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What You'll Do

Solutions Architects are trusted technical and business advisors who partner with customers to design prototype and deliver solutions on the Mapbox platform. You connect business needs with technical possibilities helping customers turn data mobility and mapping into effective digital experiences. You collaborate with account managers to lead technical engagements — from discovery and design to solution validation and deployment. You guide customers in using Mapbox products strategically to achieve measurable business outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who combines technical depth with commercial acumen enjoys working directly with customers and thrives at the intersection of strategy architecture and delivery.

• Solution Architecture: Design and present scalable architectures using Mapbox SDKs APIs and platform services.

• Technical Discovery: Lead technical discussions to identify customer goals challenges and requirements.

• Prototyping & Proof of Value: Build and deliver proof-of-concept solutions that demonstrate customer value.

• Pre-Sales Enablement: Partner with Account Executives to position technical differentiation and shape opportunities.

• Location Intelligence: Apply expertise in GIS spatial data processing and business value.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with developers architects and senior decision-makers.

• Customer Advocacy: Provide structured feedback from the field and raise feature requests to influence Mapbox product and engineering roadmaps.

• Continuous Learning: Stay current on emerging technologies in mapping visualization mobility and AI.

• Collaborate with automotive customers and partners on navigation ADAS connected vehicles and software-defined vehicles.

• Design and validate architectures for real-time telemetry routing and EV ecosystem solutions.

• Work with embedded systems vehicle E/E architectures and map delivery pipelines.

• Partner with OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers supporting integration of Mapbox technologies into in-vehicle systems and connected platforms.

• Engage with cross-functional teams to define test and scale innovative in-vehicle experiences powered by Mapbox.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• Experience: 8+ years in solutions architecture pre-sales engineering or enterprise consulting with a record of customer-facing success.

• Language: Fluent in Japanese and English (both written and verbal communication)

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (preferred).

• Domain Expertise: Proven experience with GIS location intelligence and geospatial data processing including spatial databases vector and raster data geocoding routing and map rendering.

• Technical Skills

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (certification in AWS Azure or GCP is desirable).

  • Proven experience with web and mobile technologies (Required: JavaScript. Highly desirable: Swift Kotlin Python. Desirable: React Native Flutter).

  • Proven experience with back-end APIs and front-end SDKs in geospatial and mobility domains.

• Architecture & Design: Proven ability to translate complex requirements into scalable robust technical architectures aligned with customer objectives.

• Solution Selling: Demonstrated ability to articulate how technical architectures deliver business value connecting design decisions to commercial outcomes and ROI.

• Collaboration: Proven ability to work autonomously while effectively partnering across distributed cross-functional teams (Sales Product Engineering and Customer Success).

• Communication: Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills with both technical and executive audiences.

• Strategic Mindset: Capable of bridging high-level business strategy with technical implementation.

• Mobility: Willingness to travel up to 25% for customer meetings workshops and industry events.

• Experience collaborating with OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers preferably in navigation ADAS connected-vehicle or SDV programs.

• Understanding of automotive software stacks E/E architectures and middleware integration.

• Familiarity with vehicle data telemetry map delivery and over-the-air (OTA) update workflows.

• Experience in real-time systems embedded development environments or automotive cloud connectivity.

• Ability to operate within automotive lifecycle processes (requirements management validation homologation).

• Please submit your resume and application in English.

What We Value

In addition to our core values which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care parental leave flexibility for the things that come up in life and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.

• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds genders ethnicities abilities and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants which is linked here. Completing this application requires you to provide personal data such as your name and contact information which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application.

We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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