Senior Copilot & Azure AI Foundry Engineer

Senior Copilot & Azure AI Foundry Engineer

Our client, a Media, Information and Services company, is looking for a Senior Copilot & Azure AI Foundry Engineer for their Charlotte, NC location.

• Analyze and refactor Copilot Studio agents to eliminate redundancies, improve routing efficiency, and streamline topic structures for better maintainability.
• Transition static, rule-based topics into grounded generative experiences and replace legacy ingestion methods with modern Azure AI approaches.
• Enhance solution accuracy by integrating Azure AI Foundry capabilities, including Cognitive Search with vector embeddings and custom RAG endpoints.
• Implement high-level capabilities like multi-step reasoning, context persistence, summarization, and function calling for complex user interactions.
• Design and manage scalable AI/ML pipelines, covering everything from model fine-tuning and versioning to CI/CD, monitoring, and security.
• Serve as the technical lead to design scalable architectures, guiding best practices and ensuring internal teams can maintain the solution post-handoff.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code for resilient workloads and produce comprehensive documentation, including troubleshooting guides and operational playbooks.

• 8+ years in software architecture or cloud engineering, with at least 3+ years specifically focused on production-grade AI/ML solutions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio).
• Expert-level Python for AI/ML development and automation; additional experience in C#,.NET, or Java is preferred.
• Solid understanding of Generative AI, prompt engineering, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases.
• Demonstrated experience with model lifecycle management, CI/CD pipelines, and designing resilient, serverless AI workloads.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot, refactor, and optimize existing AI solutions to meet 99.8% accuracy targets.
• Ability to lead architectural discussions with executive stakeholders and translate business needs into technical AI requirements.

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities