Senior AI Agent Engineer

Encora; Campinas; Remote; BRL 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is hiring a Senior AI Agent Engineer to design, build, and evaluate next-generation conversational agents using Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio. You will craft prompts, tool definitions, and orchestration flows, ensuring robust grounding, citations, and guardrails across deployments.

The role emphasizes rapid prototyping, integration with enterprise APIs, and ongoing evaluation to improve latency, reliability, and observability while managing costs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related field.
• Experience developing generative AI, AI assistant, or agent-based applications.
• Strong Python skills and experience integrating REST APIs and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Build agents using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, or other approved frameworks, including Python-based frameworks where appropriate.
• Build or coordinate rapid prototypes and validate them with business users.
• Develop prompts, instructions, tool definitions, routing, and orchestration workflows.
• Implement grounding, citation, retrieval, context management, guardrails, and human-review patterns.
• Integrate agents with enterprise tools and APIs.
• Create automated evaluations and optimize answer quality, latency, reliability, observability, and cost.
• Support production troubleshooting, monitoring, feedback loops, and continuous agent improvement.

Skills

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Copilot Studio

Python

Semantic Kernel

MCP

Prompt Engineering

RAG

Agent Evaluation

Guardrails

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related field

Tools

REST APIs

Cloud services

Azure Cloud

Job description

Job Title: Senior AI Agent Engineer

Key Skills: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio, Python, Semantic Kernel, MCP, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Agent Evaluation, Guardrails, Observability

Location: Brazil

Mode: Remote

We at Coforge are hiring Senior AI Agent Engineer with the following skill set.

Key Responsibilities

• Build agents using Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio, or other approved frameworks, including Python-based frameworks where appropriate.
• Build or coordinate rapid prototypes and validate them with business users.
• Develop prompts, instructions, tool definitions, routing, and orchestration workflows.
• Implement grounding, citation, retrieval, context management, guardrails, and human-review patterns.
• Integrate agents with enterprise tools and APIs.
• Create automated evaluations and optimize answer quality, latency, reliability, observability, and cost.
• Support production troubleshooting, monitoring, feedback loops, and continuous agent improvement.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, AI, or a related field.
• Experiencedeveloping generative AI, AI assistant, or agent-based applications.
• Strong Python skills and experience integrating REST APIs and cloud services.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.
• Experience with Semantic Kernel, MCP, multi-agent systems, or comparable orchestration frameworks.
• Experience implementing RAG, evaluation pipelines, citations, and tool-use controls.
• Azure AI Engineer or related certification.

Posted On: 21-09-2026

At Coforge, we hire professionals based solely on their skills and do not discriminate based on age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.