Senior Azure AI Platform Engineer — Hybrid

Strategic Employment; Park Ridge (IL); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Employment seeks a Senior Azure AI Platform Engineer in Park Ridge, Illinois, to help modernize a legacy .NET platform into Azure with AI capabilities. This hands-on engineering role requires building AI-enabled features in a hybrid working environment, three days onsite.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong C# and .NET skills, and experience with AI/ML solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with C# and .NET.
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML solutions in production environments.
• Cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).
• Comfortable working in a hybrid environment (3 days onsite weekly).

Responsibilities

• Build and integrate AI-powered capabilities into a .NET application stack.
• Develop backend services and APIs using C#/.NET.
• Design and implement cloud-native components and microservices in Azure.
• Integrate Azure AI / OpenAI into real-world workflows.
• Partner with product and business teams to translate AI ideas into production-ready solutions.
• Help establish patterns and best practices for scalable AI adoption.

Skills

C#

.NET

AI/ML solutions

REST APIs

Cloud experience

Backend architecture

Microservices

Tools

Azure

React

Angular

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Strategic Employment seeks a Senior Azure AI Platform Engineer in Park Ridge, Illinois, to help modernize a legacy .NET platform into Azure with AI capabilities. This hands-on engineering role requires building AI-enabled features in a hybrid working environment, three days onsite.

The ideal candidate has 6+ years of software engineering experience, strong C# and .NET skills, and experience with AI/ML solutions.