About this role

Overview Microsoft’s Digital Natives Team is at the forefront of AI innovation and Cloud Transformation, delivering technical and business impact with scaling-stage digital natives and high-velocity enterprise customers. We seek individuals who are passionate about AI application development, cloud scaling, and shaping the future of software engineering with AI. Join Microsoft as a Solution Engineer | Apps & AI, where you’ll help startups, digital natives, and fast-moving customers’ developers solve complex challenges and build the next generation of intelligent applications and platforms. As a technical leader, you will influence technology strategy of chief product & technology officers, top developers and engineers across AI native organizations. You'll work directly with technical founders, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to architect platforms that support AI workloads and business-critical applications at scale. Success in this role requires technical depth, executive presence, customer influence, and business acumen. You'll bring deep expertise in building, migrating, and optimizing core workloads—including Kubernetes services and Azure API Management—with particular attention to the elasticity, cost efficiency, and time-to-market demands of Digital Native and ISV businesses. You will lead high-impact customer engagements from early AI vision and architecture through proof-of-concept validation, production deployment, and scaled adoption. Across Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot, AI Agents, Power Platform, Azure Machine Learning, and modern application development platforms, you will help customers unlock new business models and accelerate digital transformation. You'll guide application modernization using the 6R framework, containerization best practices, AKS, Arc, and trusted Azure partner solutions, while applying AI and intelligent agents to accelerate legacy transformation and product development securely and at scale. You'll have the opportunity to grow your technical expertise through Microsoft's learning resources, including support for industry-recognized certifications across Azure infrastructure, security, and AI. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. Responsibilities <ul style="margin-bottom: 0.0in; margin-top: 0.0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Drive technical sales through demos, proofs of concept, and architecture accelerators to influence solution design and enable production deployments. Help customers validate technical assumptions by writing working code and prototyping MVPs.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Lead architecture sessions and technical workshops with technical decision makers and founders to accelerate Azure adoption.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Build trusted relationships with platform and engineering leads to co-design secure, scalable, multi-tenant solutions.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Influence technical and business decision-makers by articulating solution value, technical strategy, architecture recommendations, and long-term transformation roadmaps.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Resolve technical blockers by collaborating with engineering and channeling customer insights back into the product.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Maintain deep, current expertise in AI-assisted development tools, CI/CD, DevOps, cloud-native development, migration, resiliency, security, compliance, and emerging AI and industry trends to maximize customer innovation opportunities.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Stay current on emerging AI technologies, modern application development trends, cloud innovation, and industry insights to maximize customer innovation opportunities.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Represent Microsoft in customer forums and technical communities through thought leadership.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Embody our <a style="color: black;" href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcareers.microsoft.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Fculture&data=04%7C01%7Closmit%40microsoft.com%7C27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637527293867872556%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QnmEU%2BvawaPM5eEUL1FxWPmhizgKnDLFj6dlUTOWRB0%3D&reserved=0">culture</a> and <a style="color: black;" href="https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fabout%2Fcorporate-values&data=04%7C01%7Closmit%40microsoft.com%7C27f2181d96804234953708d8f3b22d06%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637527293867882502%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=p3lkWaIXzH3t9t1hS9bOfKhtDFWPj6gi8zZU94LWRso%3D&reserved=0">values</a></li></ul> Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications<ul style="margin-bottom: 0.0in; margin-top: 0.0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience<ul style="margin-bottom: 0.0in; margin-top: 0.0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience OR 3+ years technical pre-sales or technical consulting experience</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">OR equivalent experience.</li></ul></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proven experience in cloud infrastructure. Understanding Cloud Services such as Azure, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud services, including security, compliance, and hybrid cloud scenarios.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to design and deploy scalable, secure cloud solutions.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Demonstrated hands-on expertise building proofs of concept and MVPs for agentic AI solutions, including AI agents, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, MCP, orchestration frameworks, multi-agent architectures, prompt engineering, knowledge grounding, conversational AI, and intelligent automation.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience architecting, deploying, and operating enterprise AI-powered applications in production, with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, observability, governance, security, and responsible AI.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Ability to create and explain three-tier, system-context, and system-interaction diagrams for cloud solutions across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud. </li><li style="margin: 0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proficiency in written, reading, and conversational Brazilian Portuguese and English.</li></ul> Additional or preferred qualifications<ul style="margin-bottom: 0.0in; margin-top: 0.0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">5+ years technical pre-sales, technical consulting, or technology delivery, or related experience OR equivalent experience.</li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">3+ years experience with cloud and hybrid, or on premises infrastructures, architecture designs, migrations, industry standards, and/or technology management.</li><li style="margin: 0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px; font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: black;">Proficiency in written, reading, and conversational Spanish.</li></ul> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>