Overview
Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Apps - Ireland at Microsoft.
This role focuses on helping enterprise AI developers adopt the Microsoft AI-powered stack across the development lifecycle, accelerating AI Foundry, Cloud & AI, and Responsible AI through hands-on engagements.
As an Innovative AI Application Digital Solution Engineer (DSE), you will collaborate with engineering leaders and platform teams to accelerate adoption of Microsoft's AI platforms, guide customers through secure, scalable solution design, and help modernization of applications leveraging AI.
Responsibilities
Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and proofs of concepts to influence solution design and enable production deployments.
Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft's developer tools and cloud platforms.
Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions.
Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products.
Maintain deep proficiency in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud-native development (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET).
Maintain and grow proficiency in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).
Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
5+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 4+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience
OR equivalent experience
Proficient in full-stack app architecture design / modernization and cloud-native development (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java, .NET)
Proficient in AI & ML models (Agentic AI framework, AI Foundry, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, fine-tuning/inferencing)
Proven ability to lead technical engagements (e.g., hackathons, PoCs, MVPs) that drive production-scale outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
6+ years technical pre-sales, consulting, or technology delivery experience
4+ years experience with cloud and hybrid or on-premises infrastructure, architecture designs, migrations, and technology management
Proficient on Agentic framework, AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, Responsible AI, orchestrator, monitoring)
Skills with frameworks/tools/languages (GitHub, Copilot Studio, VS Code, Jupyter, PyCharm, Node.js, Python, Java, C#, C++, AI Assisted Dev Tools)
Preferred additional language: Finnish
Equal Opportunity
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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