Senior AI Automation Engineer | 100,000-120,000
Overview
In this Senior AI Automation Engineer role you will design and deliver production-grade AI applications, intelligent agents and automated workflows within a governed enterprise. You’ll work at the intersection of AI engineering, software development and automation to move solutions from PoCs to real-world production use. The role centers on building scalable, observable and secure AI-powered systems that integrate with enterprise platforms. You’ll shape architecture, drive standards and mentor others while contributing hands-on to critical projects at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and build AI agents and multi-step automated workflows
- Develop production-grade Python services, APIs and automation pipelines
- Develop solutions using Copilot Studio and Power Platform
- Orchestrate workflows across Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry and internal systems
- Integrate AI apps with REST/GraphQL APIs and event-driven architectures
- Create reusable connectors, tools, services and agent capabilities
- Design agent orchestration, tool-use and integration patterns
- Build CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
- Deploy and monitor AI applications in production
- Ensure solutions are scalable, observable, secure and maintainable
- Lead technical design discussions and code reviews
- Help establish engineering standards and mentor junior engineers
Key requirements
- Strong commercial Python engineering experience including APIs, testing, modular architecture and asynchronous processing
- Strong experience with Copilot Studio
- Strong experience with Power Platform and workflow automation
- Experience building and deploying production AI/LLM applications, agents or AI-powered workflows
- Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry or comparable AI platforms
- Understanding of agentic AI patterns, orchestration, tool use, prompt design and LLM limitations
- Strong API and systems integration experience (REST/GraphQL)
- Experience designing reusable services, connectors and integration components
- Microsoft Azure experience across functions, containers and AI services
- Strong CI/CD, Git and automated testing experience
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or Azure Container Apps
- Understanding of production monitoring, reliability and observability
- Experience with MCP or similar integration patterns, AI governance, prompt evaluation/versioning, event-driven systems or highly regulated environments (valued)
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Leadership in technical design and reviews
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Python API development
- Copilot Studio
- Power Platform
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