Microsoft AI Engineer

83zero
London, City And County Of the City Of London, United Kingdom
Last week
£350 – £400 pd

Salary

£350 – £400 pd

Posted
6 Oct 2026 (Last week)

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

Microsoft Entra ID / cloud securityPlease click apply

Related Jobs

View all jobs
Spotlight

PoliceAI: Senior AI Engineer

College of Policing London, Eng, United Kingdom
£78,000 – £85,000 pa Remote

AI Platform & DevOps Engineer

Michael Page Technology Birmingham, United Kingdom
£64,800 – £72,000 pa Hybrid

Python AI Engineer

Square One Resources London, United Kingdom
£600 – £700 pd

Senior AI Automation Engineer |

Method Resourcing Birmingham, United Kingdom
£100,000 – £120,000 pa

Senior AI Engineer

Appcast Enterprise Cork, United Kingdom

Senior AI Automation Engineer |

Method Resourcing London, United Kingdom
£100,000 – £120,000 pa

AI Engineer

SER Limited Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom
£75,000 – £85,000 pa

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

What Is an AI Forward Deployed Engineer? The Fastest-Growing Job in AI for 2026

If you have been watching AI job boards over the past year, one title keeps surfacing again and again: the forward deployed engineer, or FDE. It has gone from a niche term known mainly to Palantir alumni to arguably the hottest role in the entire AI hiring market. Job postings for forward deployed engineers have exploded, salaries have climbed past levels most software engineers will ever see, and the biggest names in AI — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Salesforce, Databricks and Palantir — are all competing for the same small pool of talent. So what exactly is an AI forward deployed engineer, why has demand surged so dramatically, and how do you position yourself to land one of these roles? This guide breaks it all down for AI engineers, software engineers and data scientists looking at their next move.