Azure AI Engineer

About this role

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We are seeking an experienced Azure AI Engineer / Developer with minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in designing, building, and operating AI solutions on Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on integrating AI into enterprise systems (including SharePoint grounded RAG) with robust guardrails, security, performance, and scalability.


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• This role is hybrid in New York City, NY (onsite 4 days a week)

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage AI applications on Microsoft Azure, using Azure AI Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search (Knowledge Mining), and Cognitive Services.
• Integrate AI models into applications, services, and processes as APIs.
• Leverage SharePoint content for RAG and MCP integration build pipelines that index enterprise documents, configure vector search, and ground Copilot responses with secure SharePoint data access.
• Implement Responsible AI guardrails set up safety filters, prompt moderation, content policies, and compliance checks; maintain auditability and incident playbooks.
• Perform model fine tuning using JSONL datasets for generative AI/custom scenarios; manage prompt strategies, grounding, and evaluation.
• Conduct testing and QA (unit/functional, load/performance, safety tests, prompt safety, regression suites).
• Document AI development create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational playbooks for supportability and audits.
• Stay current with AI advancements evaluate new Azure capabilities (model catalog updates, agent orchestration, prompt engineering patterns).
• Ensure compliance and security adhere to data privacy regulations and enterprise policy; use Azure Key Vault, Managed Identity, Private Links, RBAC, Purview, and other security controls.
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