Remote AI Engineer: Copilot & Foundry Production Solutions

Collectiv; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Health insurance

401(k) with match

Educational assistance

Tech stipend

Unlimited time off

Job summary

Collectiv is hiring an AI Engineer to design, build, and ship production AI solutions on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. You will write code, configure agents, wire data, and deliver production-ready solutions to client teams.

You will work in a delivery team with a project lead, architects, and data engineers, collaborating with client stakeholders to translate business problems into working AI use cases and harden them for production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years in software or data engineering or Power Platform development.
• 1+ years deploying generative AI in production.
• Hands-on with Copilot extensibility and Copilot Studio.
• Hands-on with Azure AI Foundry or Azure OpenAI.
• Experience building RAG solutions with Azure AI Search.
• Strong Python or C# skills.
• Azure experience (storage, compute, identity, networking).
• Ability to work independently in client-facing consulting.

Responsibilities

• Build declarative agents, Copilot connectors, and plugins for Copilot.
• Build Copilot Studio agents, topics, actions, and autonomous agents for business processes.
• Connect Copilot to SharePoint, Teams, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, and line-of-business systems.
• Write and iterate on prompts, instructions, and agent configurations based on test results and user feedback.
• Build custom agents and AI applications in Azure AI Foundry for use cases beyond Copilot.
• Select, deploy, and configure models from the Foundry catalog and explain trade-offs.
• Implement agentic workflows with tool calling, multi-step orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls.
• Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems through APIs, Azure Functions, Power Automate, and Logic Apps.
• Build RAG pipelines including ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector and hybrid search, grounding.
• Use Azure AI Search and Document Intelligence to index knowledge from client content.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Python

C#

Azure familiarity

Client-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility

Copilot Studio

Azure AI Foundry

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Search

Power Platform

Fabric/Databricks

Job description

Collectiv is hiring an AI Engineer to design, build, and ship production AI solutions on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure AI Foundry. You will write code, configure agents, wire data, and deliver production-ready solutions to client teams.

You will work in a delivery team with a project lead, architects, and data engineers, collaborating with client stakeholders to translate business problems into working AI use cases and harden them for production.