Microsoft

Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer

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Base Salary

$131k - $272k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive technical sales engagements with decision-makers through demonstrations and proofs of concept to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
  • Lead hands-on hackathons, collaborative coding sessions, and architecture workshops to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.
  • Build relationships with developers and platform leaders to co-design secure and scalable architectures and solutions.
  • Resolve technical blockers and objections while collaborating with engineering teams to share customer insights and improve products.
  • Maintain expertise in AI Foundry, application architecture, agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry software development kit, Responsible AI, and cloud-native development.
  • Develop expertise in AI management and security and represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field plus 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience, or a bachelor’s degree in a related field plus 6+ years of such experience, or 7+ years of such experience, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience is preferred.
  • 6+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management is preferred.
  • Relevant certifications in areas such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure architecture and development, cloud platforms, information security, or architecture are preferred.
  • Experience with agentic AI frameworks, AI management and security, generative AI operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestration, and monitoring is preferred.
  • Experience with development tools, frameworks, or languages such as GitHub, Copilot Studio, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, or AI-assisted development tools is preferred.
  • Understanding of full-stack application architecture, modernization, cloud-native development, APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI orchestration, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning, and inferencing is preferred.
  • Ability to lead technical engagements such as hackathons, proofs of concept, and minimum viable products that drive production-scale outcomes is preferred.
  • Candidates must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $130,900–$251,900 per year; a separate range applies to specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for at least five days.

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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.

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