Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is transforming the developer experience for Cloud & AI Applications, seeking a Solution Engineer to tackle complex challenges. In this role, you will help customers adopt innovations, guide them through secure solution design, and collaborate closely with engineering teams to accelerate AI application development.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments
- 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
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
- OR equivalent experience
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties
- 6+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience
- 4+ years 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, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools)
- Understanding of full stack App architecture design / modernization and cloud native dev (e.g., APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET)
- Familiarity of 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
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
- This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
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