Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Microsoft is transforming the developer experience for Cloud & AI Applications across the development lifecycle. As a Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications, you’ll help customers adopt innovations to boost productivity and drive innovation, collaborating closely with engineering leaders and platform teams.
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
- Flexible work opportunities
- This role is flexible in that you can work up to 50% from home.
- Travel percentages will vary according to role.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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