Senior Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – AI Applications

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Cloud & AI Solution Engineer – Innovative AI Applications

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 innovation, working on 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 adopt these innovations to boost productivity, drive innovation, 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, innovate to 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.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
  OR equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience engaging and influencing enterprise AI development teams, including senior engineering leaders and technical decision makers.
• Advanced proficiency in multiple modern programming languages and frameworks, with deep expertise in AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Agentic AI, AI Foundry, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing).
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical engagements (e.g., cross-team PoCs, architecture workshops, large-scale AI app deployments) that drive production-scale outcomes.
• Proven track record of shaping technical strategy and influencing business outcomes through thought leadership and community engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales, consulting, or technology delivery experience.
• 6+ years of experience with cloud and hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Azure AI, Cloud Platform, Information Security).
• Experience designing and implementing AI-powered, cloud-native solutions (APIs, containers, microservices, event-driven architectures, vector DB, graph DB) at scale.
• Expertise with AI management and security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring, Responsible AI).
• Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers, and to build and lead technical communities.
• Experience aligning technical solutions with business goals in collaboration with sales, partners, and product teams.

• Proactively lead technical sales strategy and customer engagements, driving adoption of Microsoft’s AI-powered developer stack across large and complex organizations.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to senior engineering leaders, influencing technical decisions and accelerating AI integration into application development workflows.
• Lead and oversee hands-on engagements (hackathons, code-with sessions, architecture workshops) to deliver production-scale AI solutions.
• Resolve complex technical blockers, collaborating with engineering and product teams to drive continuous improvement.
• Shape technical strategy through thought leadership, competitive analysis, and community engagement.
• Mentor and coach other Solution Engineers, sharing best practices and building technical readiness across the team.
• Represent Microsoft at industry events, conferences, and in developer communities as a technical thought leader.
• Embody Microsoft’s values and foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and growth