Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is hiring a Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer to help commercial customers adopt AI Foundry, Azure AI, and Responsible AI technologies. The role leads hands-on technical engagements, guides secure and scalable solution design, and supports integration of AI application development into deployment workflows.
Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales engagements with decision-makers by using demonstrations and proofs of concept to influence solution design and enable production deployments
- Lead hands-on engagements, including hackathons, collaborative coding sessions, and architecture workshops, to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms
- Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leaders to co-design secure and scalable architectures and solutions
- Resolve technical blockers and address objections while collaborating with engineering teams to share customer insights and improve products
- Maintain expertise in AI Foundry and application architecture, including agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry software development kit, Responsible AI, cloud-native development, application programming interfaces, containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET
- Maintain and grow expertise in AI management and security
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums
- Embody our [culture](https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcareers.microsoft.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Fculture&data=04%7C01%7Closmit%40microsoft.com%7C27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637527293867872556%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QnmEU%2BvawaPM5eEUL1FxWPmhizgKnDLFj6dlUTOWRB0%3D&reserved=0) and [values](https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fabout%2Fcorporate-values&data=04%7C01%7Closmit%40microsoft.com%7C27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637527293867882502%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=p3lkWaIXzH3t9t1hS9bOfKhtDFWPj6gi8zZU94LWRso%3D&reserved=0)
Skills
- Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 6+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 7+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR equivalent experience
- Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship
- 8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management
- Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines, such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure architecture and development, cloud platform technologies, information security, or architecture
- Proficiency in agentic AI frameworks, AI management, and security, including generative AI operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestration, and monitoring
- Experience with one or more development frameworks, tools, or programming languages, such as GitHub, Copilot Studio, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, or AI-assisted development tools
- Understanding of full-stack application architecture design and modernization and cloud-native development, including application programming interfaces (APIs), containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET
- Familiarity with AI orchestration, including agentic AI frameworks, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry software development kit (SDK), Responsible AI, fine-tuning, and inferencing
- Proven ability to lead technical engagements, such as hackathons, proofs of concept (PoCs), and minimum viable products (MVPs), that drive production-scale outcomes
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