Drimva

Microsoft

Senior Applied AI Engineer

$120K–$261K

Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026

Location
Redmond, WA
Atlanta, GA
Experience
4+ years technical engineering experience; equivalent experience is an alternative to the stated degree and experience combination.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Designs, builds, evaluates, and operates production agentic AI services that automate Azure customer support and improve product quality.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate AI services using LLM orchestration, RAG, agent workflows, tool integrations, and evaluation frameworks.
  • Own technical delivery from design through deployment and monitoring, including secure, reliable production operations.
  • Lead project execution and mentor engineers while collaborating across product, research, platform, and support teams.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have

  • Experience building and shipping production agentic AI services or multi-agent workflows, and designing AI evaluation systems.
  • Familiarity with Azure AI platforms and services, RAG systems, CI/CD, production observability, and agent-security patterns.

Pay

USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

C#, Python, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Agent Framework, RAG

AI focus

Build production agentic AI services for Azure customer support and product quality, including LLM orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, agent workflows, tool integration, security, and AI evaluation.

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First seen Oct 20, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)