Azure AI Developer and Architect

About the role

The role is a senior, hands-on Azure AI Developer / Architect leading customer AI application delivery, rapid prototypes, and MVPs. It sits in a growing Microsoft AI practice working across Azure AI Foundry, agentic workflows, RAG patterns, document intelligence, enterprise integrations, and AI engineering guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, and guide delivery of practical, governed AI use cases for clients.
• Build applications that integrate with systems like SAP and Salesforce.
• Ensure work is developed securely within the customer's Azure environment.

Requirements

• Hands-on AI application development experience.
• Azure AI Foundry and adjacent Azure AI service exposure.
• RAG, LLM, retrieval/search, and agentic-workflow delivery experience.
• Strong .NET/C# and/or Python engineering background.
• Git, branching, release, and development governance discipline.
• Enterprise systems integration and customer-facing delivery capability.

Qualifications

• Must not be a low-code Copilot Studio candidate.
• Screen out prompt engineers without software engineering depth.
• Screen out AI architects who cannot code or describe a production delivery lifecycle.
• Focus on public AI APIs without enterprise security/governance understanding.

Skills

• Understanding of LLMs, tokens, models, model routing, document processing, retrieval/search, RAG, agentic workflows, MCP, Git, repositories, branching, release discipline, and secure enterprise deployment.

Benefits

• Remote, customer-facing role requiring Pacific Time coverage.
• Open to FTE or contract-to-hire, with a preference for retaining and developing internal expertise.

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Remote, Pacific Time coverage required.