1 month ago
USA (city not specified)Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$86k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive technical sales with decision-makers using demonstrations and proofs of concept to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
- Lead hands-on hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.
- Build relationships with developers and platform leads while co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
- Resolve technical blockers and objections and collaborate with engineering to share customer insights and improve products.
- Maintain expertise in AI Foundry, agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, application architecture, cloud-native development, and AI management and security.
- Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 2+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or a master’s degree and 1+ year; or 3+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 4+ years of experience with cloud or hybrid infrastructure, on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, or technology management.
- Experience or proficiency with agentic frameworks, AI management and security, Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestration, and monitoring.
- Experience with one or more relevant frameworks, tools, languages, or developer tools such as GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, and AI-assisted development tools.
- Understanding of full-stack application architecture, modernization, cloud-native development, APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven systems, Python, Java, or .NET.
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning models, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning, and inferencing.
- Ability to lead technical engagements such as hackathons, proofs of concept, and MVPs that produce production-scale outcomes.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangement allowing up to 50% work from home.
- Travel percentages vary according to the role.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.