Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer

Microsoft • ,

3d • $130,900 - $272,300

About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Cloud & AI Principal Solution Engineer to support commercial customers in adopting cloud and AI technologies. The role helps enterprise AI developers use Microsoft’s AI-powered technology stack across the development lifecycle, including AI Foundry and Azure AI, to improve productivity, drive innovation, and advance AI capabilities.

Working with engineering leaders and platform teams, the engineer will lead hands-on customer engagements such as proofs of concept, hackathons, collaborative coding sessions, and architecture workshops. The role guides customers toward secure, scalable solution designs, influences technical decisions, helps integrate AI application development into deployment workflows, and supports application modernization and production deployment. It also involves resolving technical blockers, sharing customer insights with engineering teams, maintaining technical expertise, and representing Microsoft in developer communities and customer forums.

Requirements

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 4+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or bachelor's degree in one of these fields and 6+ years of such experience; or 7+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
• Authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship; the position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience, or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of experience with cloud, hybrid, or on-premises infrastructure, architecture design, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.
• Certification in relevant technologies or disciplines, such as Office 365, Power BI, Azure architecture and development, cloud platform technologies, information security, or architecture.
• Proficiency in agentic AI frameworks, AI management, and security, including generative AI operations, Microsoft Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestration, and monitoring.
• Experience with one or more development frameworks, tools, or programming languages, such as GitHub, Copilot Studio, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, or AI-assisted development tools.
• Understanding of full-stack application architecture design and modernization and cloud-native development, including APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET.
• Familiarity with AI orchestration, including agentic AI frameworks, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning, and inferencing.
• Proven ability to lead technical engagements, such as hackathons, proofs of concept, and minimum viable products, that drive production-scale outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical sales engagements with decision-makers using demonstrations and proofs of concept to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
• Lead hands-on engagements, including hackathons, collaborative coding sessions, and architecture workshops, to accelerate adoption of Microsoft developer tools and cloud platforms.
• Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leaders to co-design secure and scalable architectures and solutions.
• Resolve technical blockers and address objections while collaborating with engineering teams to share customer insights and improve products.
• Maintain expertise in AI Foundry and application architecture, including agentic AI frameworks, Semantic Kernel, the Foundry software development kit, Responsible AI, cloud-native development, APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven architectures, Python, Java, and .NET.
• Maintain and grow expertise in AI management and security.
• Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
• Embody Microsoft's culture and values.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; the posting refers applicants to Microsoft's corporate pay information page for additional benefits and pay details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal