Senior Microsoft AI Engineer

Location: 100% Remote
Employment: Full-time, long-term position
Start date: As soon as possible after selection and agreement
Salary: Startup-aligned starting compensation, based on experience and responsibilities, with substantial growth potential during the first few years

About Us

We are a startup developing AI-powered solutions, business applications, integrations, and automations across different products and internal initiatives.

Microsoft technologies are an important part of our work. We want to turn business requirements into useful AI assistants, reliable workflows, and connected systems that deliver measurable results.

Our delivery model combines internal ownership with outsourced development. We are looking for someone who enjoys hands‑on implementation, can coordinate external specialists, and wants to help build and lead a growing team.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Microsoft AI Engineer with strong practical experience in Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and Power Automate.

You will take responsibility for projects from requirements discovery and solution design through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement. Your work will span different business processes and products.

Alongside technical delivery, your responsibilities may include project management, team leadership, mentoring, and coordination of outsourced contributors. You should be comfortable discussing business priorities, organizing delivery, reviewing technical work, and helping colleagues improve.

Ownership of Our Microsoft Environment

You will independently manage and develop our company's Microsoft environment across Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform. This includes taking ownership of configuration, access management, operational reliability, governance, documentation, and cost control.

We need someone who can identify issues, propose practical improvements, coordinate implementation, and verify that our systems continue to work reliably. You should be comfortable combining hands‑on technical work with project management, team leadership, mentoring, and coordination of outsourced specialists.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain AI assistants and agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry.
• Identify practical opportunities for Microsoft 365 Copilot and help teams use it effectively.
• Connect AI solutions to relevant business knowledge and systems while respecting permissions and data boundaries.
• Develop Power Automate workflows with reliable validation, exception handling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Integrate Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse, Microsoft Graph, external APIs, and other business systems.
• Implement custom connectors or supporting code where the project requires them.
• Evaluate AI output quality, grounding, failure behavior, latency, and operating costs.
• Establish appropriate human review and approval steps for consequential automated actions.
• Independently administer our Microsoft 365, Azure, and Power Platform environments, including users, groups, roles, application registrations, permissions, and service connections.
• Configure and manage GitHub-connected Power Platform solutions, including repositories, authentication, source control, branching, reviews, and deployment workflows.
• Manage the solution lifecycle across development, testing, and production, including solution dependencies, environment variables, connection references, release verification, and recovery procedures.
• Maintain secure application identities, credentials, and access configurations with clear ownership and appropriate permissions.
• Monitor platform health, investigate failures, maintain operational documentation, and control licensing and cloud expenditure.
• Translate business requirements into clear tasks, delivery milestones, and verifiable acceptance criteria.
• Manage project scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate outsourced developers, review their deliverables, and maintain clear ownership.
• Mentor colleagues through practical demonstrations, reviews, and knowledge transfer.
• Keep solutions maintainable and proportionate to the problem and startup budget.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience delivering production solutions using Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and Power Automate.
• Practical understanding of Microsoft 365 Copilot and its use in business workflows.
• Experience building AI agents or assistants connected to business data, tools, and APIs.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated answers and actions, including handling unreliable or unsupported outp