Senior AI & Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable data and AI pipelines on Azure using Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and related services
• Build Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and AI-assisted workflows that integrate with internal data sources and APIs
• Develop and maintain Python-based applications, microservices, and Azure Container Apps
• Apply prompt engineering techniques and work with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI) to deliver reliable, production-ready AI features
• Implement and maintain MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations to connect AI models with enterprise tools and data sources
• Establish best practices for AI observability, evaluation, safety guardrails, and responsible deployment
• Collaborate closely with data scientists, product managers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into engineering solutions
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to architectural decisions

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 1 year focused on AI/ML systems in production
• Strong Python proficiency — data manipulation, API development, async patterns, testing
• Solid experience with Azure cloud services: Azure Data Lake, Azure Container Apps, Azure Blob Storage, Azure OpenAI Service, and related tooling
• Experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing and ML workflows (Delta Lake, Spark, MLflow)
• Practical experience with RAG architectures, vector databases (e.g. Azure AI Search, Chroma, Weaviate, pgvector), and embedding models
• Familiarity with prompt engineering — few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought, system prompt design, output parsing
• Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) or equivalent tool-use / function-calling patterns in LLM applications
• Experience with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)

Additional Information

Starcom is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits

• Paid Family Care for parents and caregivers for 12 weeks or more
• Monetary assistance and support for Adoption, Surrogacy and Fertility
• Employee Assistance Programs and Health/Wellness/Comfort reimbursements
• Tuition Assistance
• Paid time off that includes Flexible Time off, Vacation, Annual Sick Days, Volunteer Days, Holiday and Identity days, and more
• Matching Gifts programs
• Flexible working arrangements'Work Your World'
• Business Resource Groups that support multiple affinities and alliances

Compensation Range

USD $112,290.00 - USD $161,280.00/Annually