Microsoft
Solution Engineer - Cloud & AI Applications
$86K–$223K
United States · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum: 2+ years with a bachelor's degree, 1+ year with a master's degree, or 3+ years; alternatively, equivalent experience. Preferred: 6+ years in technical pre-sales, consulting, technology delivery, or related experience; or equivalent experience; and 4+ years in specified infrastructure and architecture areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; or Master's Degree in one of those fields; or equivalent experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role.
About the job
Helps commercial customers adopt Microsoft’s Cloud and AI application technologies through technical sales, hands-on engagements, solution design, and production deployment guidance.
What you'll do
- Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs, and lead hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops.
- Co-design secure, scalable architectures with customers and resolve technical blockers in collaboration with engineering.
- Maintain expertise in AI application architecture, cloud-native development, and AI management and security; represent Microsoft in developer communities.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 2+ years of technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience; or a master's degree in a related field and 1+ year; or 3+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
- Technical pre-sales, consulting, or technology delivery experience, as applicable to the listed qualifications.
Nice to have
- 6+ years of technical pre-sales, technical consulting, technology delivery, or related experience; or equivalent experience; 4+ years with cloud/hybrid or on-premises infrastructure, architecture, migrations, standards, or technology management.
- Experience with agentic frameworks, AI management and security, developer tools/languages, cloud-native application architecture, AI/ML models, and leading technical engagements.
Pay
USD $86,100 - $169,800 per year (base salary); USD $113,300 - $187,400 per year (base salary); USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year (base salary); USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year (base salary)
Tools
AI Foundry, Azure AI, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI, Sentinel, Python, Java
AI focus
Enables customer adoption and deployment of AI applications, including agentic AI development, AI Foundry and Azure AI, and Responsible AI; covers AI management, security, monitoring, and AI/ML models.
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