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We invite you to join Microsoft as a Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer supporting commercial customers. In this role, you will work on innovative projects that use Microsoft technologies to drive meaningful customer impact while collaborating across teams and continuing to develop your technical expertise.\nMicrosoft is transforming the developer experience for cloud and AI applications across the development lifecycle. Through AI Foundry and its integration with Azure AI, we are advancing agentic AI development, where AI agents help streamline development and operations. As a Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer, you will help customers adopt these technologies to improve productivity, drive innovation, and advance their AI capabilities. You will also help enterprise AI developers realize the potential of Microsoft’s AI-powered technology stack across the development lifecycle.\nIn this role, you will collaborate with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate adoption of AI Foundry, Azure AI, and Responsible AI through hands-on engagements, including proofs of concept, hackathons, and architecture workshops. You will guide customers through secure and scalable solution design, influence technical decisions, and help integrate AI application development into deployment workflows. You will help customers modernize applications and realize the value of Microsoft’s AI platform while developing your business acumen, technical expertise, and solution design and deployment capabilities.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.\nResponsibilities\nDrive technical sales engagements with decision-makers by using demonstrations and proofs of concept to influence solution design and enable production deployments\n\nLead hands-on engagements, including hackathons, collaborative coding sessions, and architecture workshops, to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms\n\nBuild trusted relationships with developers and platform leaders to co-design secure and scalable architectures and solutions\n\nResolve technical blockers and address objections while collaborating with engineering teams to share customer insights and improve products\n\nMaintain 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\n\nMaintain and grow expertise in AI management and security\n\nRepresent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums\nEmbody our culture and values\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nMaster'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\nOther Requirements:\nThis 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\nPreferred Qualifications:\n8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience\n\n6+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management\n\nCertification in relevant technologies or disciplines, such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure architecture and development, cloud platform technologies, information security, or architecture\n\nProficiency in agentic AI frameworks, AI management, and security, including generative AI operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestration, and monitoring\n\nExperience with one or more development frameworks, tools, or programming languages, such as GitHub, Copilot Studio, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, or AI-assisted development tools\n\nUnderstanding of full-stack application architecture design and modernization and cloud-native development, including application programming interfaces (APIs), containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET\n\nFamiliarity with AI orchestration, including agentic AI frameworks, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry software development kit (SDK), Responsible AI, fine-tuning, and inferencing\n\nProven ability to lead technical engagements, such as hackathons, proofs of concept (PoCs), and minimum viable products (MVPs), that drive production-scale outcomes\n\nSolution Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $251,900 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $272,300 per year.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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