Senior AI & Automation Engineer

3Core Systems , Inc • Austin, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior AI & Automation Engineer designs, builds, and operates AI-enabled automation solutions using Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, and Copilot endpoints integrated with internal APIs. The engineer applies practical prompt-engineering techniques, to include clear instructions, structured I/O, grounding on enterprise data, and explicit guardrails, to keep AI behavior reliable and free of hallucination. The role owns solutions end-to-end: design, build, test, deploy, document, and support. The team's mandate is shifting away from data science and more toward software development and automation. The AI tooling sits on top of solid engineering: REST APIs, custom connectors, webhooks, and full lifecycle ownership. A good developer picks up the AI layer quickly; the reverse is much harder. This role requires strong software engineering experience, business acumen, and executive presence, with the ability to interact directly with executives.

Requirements

• 5–8 years building production automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Hands-on Power Automate and Power Apps development in production.
• Systems integration via REST APIs, custom connectors, or webhooks.
• Experience using Copilot, Copilot Studio, or other LLM/AI endpoints.
• Working knowledge of prompt engineering for production use cases.
• Full engineering lifecycle ownership: design, build, test, deploy, document, support.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and work independently across business and tech teams.
• Effective communication with business analysts, users, and non-senior leaders.
• Strong software engineering experience.
• Strong business acumen.
• Executive presence.

Nice To Haves

• Software development experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with building rule sets for a knowledge repository (RAG)
• Ability to build in Power BI, DAX, and/or SQL independently.
• Agile (Scrum or Kanban) experience.
• AI Builder, Power Automate Desktop (RPA), Dataverse, or ADF experience.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Python, or JavaScript.
• Familiarity with Entra ID, OAuth, or service principals.

Responsibilities

• Identify and scope automation opportunities across enterprise operations.
• Design and build Power Automate flows, Power Apps, and Copilot Studio agents.
• Integrate solutions via REST APIs, custom connectors, webhooks, and Copilot endpoints.
• Develop prescriptive prompts and agent instructions with structured outputs and guardrails.
• Own testing, validation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.
• Build reporting on performance, adoption, exceptions, and realized value.
• Maintain alignment with enterprise AI, security, risk, and quality standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree