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Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and care time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.\nJob Summary\nHelp shape the future of enterprise AI by designing, building, and delivering production-ready AI applications, copilots, and intelligent agents on the Microsoft AI platform.\nWe are looking for a Senior AI Solutions Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical leader for advanced AI solutions. In this role, you will partner with customers and internal stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure, and production-grade AI applications, copilots, and agents. You will guide engagements from discovery and architecture through implementation, deployment, evaluation, governance, and ongoing production support. This is an opportunity to work across a modern Microsoft AI ecosystem, including Microsoft Foundry, Foundry Agent Service, Microsoft Fabric, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent Builder, Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, Power Platform, Azure services, and GitHub Copilot capabilities. 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