Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - AI Applications

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

Are you insatiably curious, deeply passionate about the realm of AI & applications, and ready to tackle complex challenges in a dynamic environment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Cloud & AI Solution Engineer in AI Applications for commercial customers at Microsoft. Here, you'll be at the forefront of cutting-edge projects that leverage the latest technologies to drive meaningful impact. Join us and be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

Microsoft is transforming the developer experience for AI applications across the development lifecycle. With AI Foundry and seamless integration with Azure AI, we’re leading the way in Agentic AI development where AI agents streamline development and operations. As an AI Apps Solution Engineer, you’ll help customers boost productivity and become AI-native.

As an AI Applications Solution Engineer (SE), you will play a pivotal role in helping enterprise AI developers unlock the full potential of Microsoft’s AI-powered stack across every stage of the development lifecycle. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate AI Foundry, Azure AI, and Responsible AI, through hands-on engagements like Proof of Concepts, hackathons, and architecture workshops. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills, and become adept at solution design and deployment. You’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications development into their deployment workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their applications and realize the full value of Microsoft’s AI platform, all while enjoying flexible work opportunities.

As a trusted technical advisor, you’ll guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and accelerate AI applications and agents into their development workflows. In summary, you’ll help customers modernize their applications leveraging AI and realize the full value of Microsoft’s platform.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Help customers understand Microsoft’s technology by showing demos and building proof-of-concepts that guide their solution design and help them get started in production.
• Support hands-on activities like hackathons, coding sessions, and architecture workshops to help teams adopt Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms faster.
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs)

• Proven technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND few years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience 
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND a couple years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience  OR equivalent experience
  

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• 2-3 years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Exposure to full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET)
• Experience in AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.
• Experience on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (e.g., Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring)
• Skilled with 1 or more frameworks, tools, languages (e.g., GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools)
  
  

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