Principal Engineer - Copilot Studio & AI for Contact Center (CCaaS)

Job Title: Principal Engineer
Location: Hybrid, Vienna, VA OR Remote
Duration: Long-term
Schedule: Monday Friday, 40 hours/week

Principal Engineer Copilot Studio & AI for Contact Center (CCaaS) to lead the hands-on development and implementation of AI-powered customer and employee engagement solutions.
This is a builder role, not a strategy-only position. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing, developing, testing, and deploying Microsoft Copilot Studio solutions, AI agents, conversational AI, voice bots, chat bots, Agent Assist capabilities, and AI-powered automation within modern Contact Center environments.
The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering production-ready AI solutions that enhance member experiences, improve employee productivity, and enable next-generation capabilities across Client's Experience Interaction Platform (EIP). The role aligns directly with Client's enterprise adoption of Copilot Studio, AI agents, voice AI, and contact center modernization initiatives

The ideal candidate will be expected to personally:
Build and deploy Copilot Studio agents from requirements through production.
Develop conversational experiences for voice and chat channels.
Create AI agents that support employee and member interactions.
Configure topics, prompts, actions, orchestration flows, and agent behaviors.
Develop and troubleshoot Power Automate workflows.
Design and implement integrations with APIs, Dataverse, SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Teams, and other enterprise systems.
Build Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions using enterprise knowledge sources.
Develop AI-powered Agent Assist capabilities including:
Call summarization
Knowledge recommendations
Next Best Action guidance
Intelligent search
Post-call automation
Configure and deploy Voice AI and IVR automation capabilities.
Build and optimize self-service virtual assistants.
Test, tune, and improve AI response quality and accuracy.
Debug production issues and implement fixes.

Copilot Studio
Must have:
3+ years of hands-on Copilot Studio development experience.
Built and deployed multiple production Copilot Studio solutions.
Experience integrating Copilot Studio with enterprise systems.

Experience creating:
Custom topics
Custom actions
Generative AI agents
Autonomous agents
Voice agents
Chat agents

Contact Center & CCaaS
3+ years of experience implementing Contact Center technologies.
Experience with CCaaS platforms such as:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Contact Center or Genesys

Deep understanding of:
IVR design
Call flows
Routing strategies
Agent desktop experiences
Workforce optimization
Customer journey orchestration

Generative AI
Strong hands-on experience with:
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Prompt Engineering
RAG implementations
Azure OpenAI
AI Foundry
Conversational AI design
AI model evaluation
AI guardrails and governance

Technical Skills
Microsoft Technologies
Copilot Studio
Power Platform
Power Automate
Dataverse
Power Apps
Dynamics 365
Microsoft Teams
Azure Services

AI Technologies
Azure OpenAI
AI Foundry
Prompt Engineering
Semantic Search
Vector Databases
Conversational AI
Voice AI

Development Skills
REST APIs
JSON
JavaScript
Python
C#
Git
Azure DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines