Senior AI Engineer

Job Description

#### Job Description

Senior Engineer -- AI Engineering
Irving, Texas
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**Microsoft Copilot Studio**

Position Summary
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We are seeking a **Senior AI Engineer** with deep hands-on expertise in **Microsoft Copilot Studio** to design, build, and deploy enterprise-scale AI agents and agentic solutions.

This role will focus heavily on developing sophisticated AI agents, multi-agent workflows, orchestration frameworks, and reusable AI capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with **Microsoft Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365 applications**, including Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, and OneDrive.

**Microsoft Copilot Studio experience is the primary requirement.** Azure AI Foundry experience is beneficial but not required.

Key Responsibilities
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* Design, build, and deploy enterprise **AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio**.
* Develop end-to-end agentic solutions leveraging **Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio**.
* Build both **declarative and custom agents** for complex enterprise use cases.
* Design sophisticated **agent orchestration patterns**, including multi-agent coordination, task decomposition, workflow execution, and tool chaining.
* Develop orchestration layers supporting agent planning, execution, validation, error handling, and recovery.
* Build tool and skill invocation pipelines that allow agents to interact with enterprise applications and services.
* Ground AI agents in enterprise data using **Microsoft Graph** and Microsoft 365 data sources.
* Design integrations across **Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android**.
* Develop reusable Copilot Studio frameworks, components, patterns, and standards to accelerate enterprise AI development.
* Solve complex engineering challenges involving agent collaboration, workflow execution, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization.
* Establish AI engineering best practices for prompt management, skill versioning, automated testing, evaluation, and CI/CD.
* Implement monitoring and observability for agent workflows, including execution tracing, performance metrics, success measurement, and failure analysis.
* Apply **Responsible AI** principles, including security controls, data privacy, policy enforcement, secure tool access, and explain ability.
* Participate in architecture reviews and technical design discussions for Copilot and agent-based solutions.
* Partner with Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Platform teams to ensure solutions align with enterprise technology standards and strategic roadmaps.

Required Qualifications
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* Deep hands-on expertise with **Microsoft Copilot Studio**.
* Proven experience **building and deploying AI agents** in enterprise environments.
* Strong experience with **Microsoft 365 Copilot** and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
* Experience designing **agentic workflows, agent orchestration, multi-agent systems, and multi-step business processes**.
* Strong knowledge of **Microsoft Graph** and enterprise data integration.
* Experience integrating AI solutions with **Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, and OneDrive**.
* Strong background in **AI engineering, workflow automation, and agent architecture**.
* Experience developing reusable frameworks and scalable enterprise AI capabilities.
* Understanding of enterprise security, governance, data privacy, and Responsible AI practices.
* Strong engineering, problem-solving, architecture, and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications
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* Experience with **Azure AI Foundry**.
* Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for AI and agent-based applications.
* Knowledge of AI evaluation, observability, tracing, and performance optimization.
* Experience developing enterprise standards and governance frameworks for AI agent development.

Top Skills
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1. **Microsoft Copilot Studio -- advanced hands-on agent development**
2. **Microsoft 365 Copilot / Microsoft 365 ecosystem**
3. **AI agent orchestration and multi-agent workflows**
4. **Microsoft Graph and enterprise data integration**
5. **Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, and OneDrive integration**

**Key Candidate Profile:** This is not simply a general AI/ML engineering role. The strongest candidates will have direct, recent experience **building complex production AI agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio**, including orchestration, enterprise integrations, reusable agent frameworks, and deployment within Microsoft 365 environments.