AI Engineer

Role: AI Engineer
Location: Bellevue, WA (Remote)
Duration: Contract
Mandatory Skills: Azure Exp with copilot / Studio, ML ops
Job Description:
We are seeking a seasoned AI Architect with 12 years of overall technology experience including 5 years in hands on architecture leadership The ideal candidate will drive AI solutions from ideation to implementation lead performance fine tuning actively participate in RFPs and pre sales and architect robust solutions leveraging Azure AI services Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search Azure ML Cognitive Services Deep expertise in RAG architectures LLMs and a broad sound knowledge of Microsoft technologies NET Azure M365 Power Platform DevOps is essential

Responsibilities:
Support Partners in building their Agents Advisory practices and designing building and deploying sophisticated agents for their Enterprise Customers utilizing Copilot Studio Power Platform M365 Agents SDK and Copilot APIs
Provide architectural guidance and advice to proactively help System integrators as the build customer solutions to avoid issues while removing roadblocks when encountered
Help improve the platform by identifying product gaps and representing the voice of the customer within the Product team
Help scale the platform by regularly publishing white papers blogs best practice guidance videos and tools to help others in the community learn from your expertise
Work closely with the Microsoft sales field partners CSAs services operations customer success teams to help drive overall success for the System Integrator Partners and Microsoft
Support partners and customers in US and EMEA time zones
Ability to guide junior developers in the team Onshore and Offshore
Provide the Weekly status report and keep all stakeholders updated on project status

Skills:
12 years in softwaresolution engineering with 5 years as Architect LeadPrincipal level
Proven track record driving AI solutions from ideation to implementation in enterprise environments
Expertise in RAG architectures and LLM application design prompting orchestration tool use grounding
Hands on with Azure AI services
Azure OpenAI Service assistantsLLM APIs prompt engineering costperf controls
Azure AI Search vector search hybrid retrieval custom scoringreranking
Azure ML training deployment model registry pipelines
Cognitive Services Language Speech Vision
RFPPre Sales experience solutioning proposal authoring estimations and customer workshops
Microsoft technologies Copilot Studio Power Platform M365 Agents SDK and Copilot APIs Azure PaaS GitHubAzure DevOps SQL ServerCosmos DB API Management Event HubService Bus
Solid grounding in securitycompliance identity Entra ID VNETPE Key Vault encryption data governance Responsible AI practices
Excellent stakeholder management and documentation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong attention to detail and a head for problem solving.