Microsoft AI Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Day rate: £400 per day Outside IR35

We're looking for a hands-on Microsoft AI Engineer to join a growing technology team and help build and roll out AI solutions across the business.

This is a proper engineering role rather than something focused purely on AI strategy or proof of concepts. You'll be taking ideas from the business, working out how AI can genuinely solve the problem, and then building solutions that can be deployed and used in a live enterprise environment.

You'll be working mainly across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure AI, Copilot and the wider Microsoft cloud stack.

What you'll be doing

Building AI applications, copilots, agents and automated workflows

Developing solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI services and Copilot Studio

Building RAG and enterprise search solutions using internal business data

Connecting AI solutions into platforms such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dataverse and other business systems

Working with APIs, connectors and Azure services to build integrations

Developing and improving prompts, agent workflows and AI tooling

Taking solutions through development, testing and into production

Making sure solutions are secure, reliable and properly governed

Monitoring live AI services and improving performance, accuracy and cost

Working with technical teams and business users to identify where AI can actually add valueWhat we're looking for

You'll need genuine hands-on experience building AI solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Ideally, your background will include several of the following:

Azure OpenAI

Azure AI Foundry

Copilot Studio

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Azure AI Search

RAG / knowledge-grounded AI applications

AI agents and agentic workflows

Microsoft Fabric

Power Platform

Azure Functions / Logic Apps

APIs and system integrations

Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar

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