Associate AI Solutions Engineer

Connection; United States; On-site; USD 86,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free therapy visits

Mental health coaching

Wellness days

Job summary

Connection is seeking an Associate AI Solutions Engineer to design, build, test, and deploy practical enterprise AI applications, copilots, and agents. You will work with senior engineers to translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric, 365 Copilot, Power Platform, Azure services, and GitHub Copilot tools.

Ideal candidates are early‑career engineers with software, cloud, data, or automation experience and

Qualifications

• Early-career AI-focused engineer with software/cloud/data automation experience.
• Experience turning business requirements into AI-enabled solutions using Microsoft platforms.
• Knowledge of secure, scalable code development and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy enterprise AI applications, copilots, and agents under guidance.
• Develop components using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric, 365 Copilot, Power Platform, Azure, and GitHub Copilot.
• Create integrations, tools, APIs, and workflows with secure interfaces and well‑defined outputs.
• Implement authentication, authorization, and data‑protection controls; ensure production readiness.

Skills

AI solutions

Python

C#/.NET

REST APIs

Azure

GitHub Copilot

Power Platform

Dataverse

Security best practices

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Copilot Studio

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Azure Functions

Entra ID

Microsoft Graph

Dataverse connectors

Job description

Overview

What We Do

CNXN Helix Center at Connection Inc., is at the forefront of AI innovation, offering cutting‑edge solutions that redefine the boundaries of artificial intelligence and data management. We are dedicated to helping our clients navigate the complexities of AI integration, ensuring they stay ahead in a rapidly evolving technological landscape. Our commitment to excellence, innovation, and strategic growth makes us an industry leader. Visit us at www.connection.com/helix

Who We Are

Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It's what makes Connection and Helix unique-what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We'd love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us

You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection-plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. 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.

Job Summary

Build the next generation of enterprise AI solutions with hands‑on engineering, modern Microsoft technologies, and collaborative technical guidance.

We are looking for an Associate AI Solutions Engineer to help design, build, test, and deploy practical enterprise AI applications, copilots, and agents. In this hands‑on role, you will work alongside senior engineers to turn business and technical requirements into secure, scalable AI‑enabled solutions using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Builder, Power Platform, Azure services, and GitHub Copilot development tools.

This is a great opportunity for an early‑career AI‑focused engineer who already has experience in software, cloud, data, automation, or application engineering and wants to grow in the rapidly evolving space of generative AI and agentic applications. You will contribute to real‑world solution delivery while developing deeper expertise in AI engineering practices, secure integrations, grounding and retrieval, evaluation, observability, and production deployment.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Responsibilities

• Build, test, integrate, and deploy enterprise AI applications, copilots, agents, and supporting components under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Develop solution components using Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Agent Builder, Power Platform, Azure services, Power BI, and related Microsoft technologies.
• Create agent actions, tools, APIs, connectors, workflows, integrations, prompts, structured outputs, and tool‑use flows using approved patterns and secure interfaces.
• Develop application components and agent backends using Python and/or C#/.NET, Azure Functions, REST APIs, source control, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise APIs, Dataverse, SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, databases, SaaS applications, and other approved data sources.
• Build grounding and retrieval‑augmented generation capabilities using enterprise content, Azure AI Search, embeddings, vector search, Fabric data assets, and permission‑aware retrieval patterns.
• Support Power Automate flows, Power Apps, custom connectors, Dataverse components, Fabric pipelines, notebooks, lakehouses, warehouses, and semantic models that enable AI solutions.
• Implement secure identity and access practices, including authentication, authorization, managed identities, least‑privilege access, secret handling, data‑protection controls using Entra ID and related Azure services.
• Create evaluation datasets and automated tests to assess AI quality, grounding, safety, task completion, and regression behavior.
• Apply logging, tracing, monitoring, and telemetry practices to evaluate quality, latency, reliability, model usage, consumption, and failures; escape risks or anomalies as needed.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, documentation, customer workshops, implementation sessions, troubleshooting, and production deployments.
• Continue building independence in delivering AI applications, agents, and integrations of increasing complexity, with senior engineering review for architecture and production decisions.

Min USD $86,000.00/Yr.
Max USD $110,575.00