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Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications

Microsoft· Solution Engineering
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Hybrid (United States)$86.1k - $169.8kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Solution Engineer focused on Cloud & AI Applications for commercial customers at Microsoft. Drives technical sales, hands-on engagements, and architecture design to accelerate adoption of AI Foundry, Azure AI, and responsible AI within cloud-native application development.

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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Pre-sales or technical consulting experienceCloud and hybrid/on-prem infrastructure experience
Nice to have:Agentic AI framework / AI Foundry / Semantic Kernel / Foundry SDK / Responsible AIProgramming languages

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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