Solution Engineer

Overview

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 (ie: Presales Engineer) in AI Applications for ISV 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

• Get Technical win for the portfolio of Cloud & AI services you are in charge of.
• Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Create and maintain the right tension to ensure velocity of Cloud & AI project decision, delivery & implementation by customers & partners
• Lead hands-on engagements - hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops - to accelerate adoption of Microsoft's developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions
• Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
• Maintain deep expertise in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET).
• Maintain and grow expertise in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND experience in technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field AND experience in technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Expert on full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET)
• Expert for AI & ML models (e.g., Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing, etc.)
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Extensive technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
• OR equivalent experience
• Extensice experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
• Proficient 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, , Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools)

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.