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Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer

Microsoft· Solution Engineering
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United States$130.9k - $251.9kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior technical pre-sales/consulting role focused on cloud and AI applications, Microsoft AI Foundry, Azure AI, and responsible AI. Leads hands-on engagements, architecture design, and customer enablement to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.

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

Qualifications

  • 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
  • This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship

Skills

Required:Demonstrations and PoCs for technical salesHands-on engagement leadershipArchitectural design and secure, scalable solutionsContainerization, microservices, APIsPython, Java, .NET
Nice to have:AI Foundry, agentic AI, Semantic KernelAI management and security

Benefits

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