Senior AI Solutions Engineer — Production-Grade AI Architect

Connection; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

CNXN Helix Center at Connection Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Engineer to lead the design, building, and delivery of production-ready AI applications, copilots, and intelligent agents on the Microsoft AI platform.

You will partner with customers and internal stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure AI solutions, guiding engagements from discovery through deployment and ongoing production support.

Qualifications

• Senior-level role requiring hands-on technical leadership in enterprise AI
• Experience translating business needs into scalable AI solutions
• Strong communication, architectural judgment, and governance focus

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions with customers and stakeholders to understand goals, data, security, and budget.
• Design, architect, and build production-grade AI applications, copilots, and agents.
• Recommend and implement the right mix of low-code, pro-code, or hybrid approaches across Microsoft AI, Azure, Fabric, Copilot Studio, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 technologies.
• Build Microsoft 365 agents and extensibility solutions using Agent Builder, Copilot Studio, and related SDKs.
• Develop custom and hosted agents using Foundry and Foundry Agent Service, with backends in Python and/or C#/.NET.
• Design grounding, retrieval, and enterprise data solutions using Fabric, Azure AI Search, vector search, and data sources.
• Implement secure Azure architectures using Functions, Container Apps, API Management, and Cosmos DB.
• Build tools, APIs, connectors, and workflows with secure REST and event-driven patterns.
• Apply enterprise-grade identity, security, governance, data protection, and Responsible AI controls.
• Design automated testing and evaluation approaches for grounding, answer quality, and safety.
• Implement monitoring and observability for agent behavior and costs.
• Estimate and optimize solution consumption and costs; establish guardrails.

Skills

AI systems design

Cloud architecture

Production-grade AI

Microsoft ecosystem

Tools

Microsoft Foundry

Foundry Agent Service

Microsoft Fabric

Copilot Studio

Power Platform

Azure services

GitHub Copilot

Job description

CNXN Helix Center at Connection Inc. is seeking a Senior AI Solutions Engineer to lead the design, building, and delivery of production-ready AI applications, copilots, and intelligent agents on the Microsoft AI platform.

You will partner with customers and internal stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, secure AI solutions, guiding engagements from discovery through deployment and ongoing production support.