Senior AI Engineer (With Presales)

Summary

Our Artificial Intelligence team is made up of academically accomplished experts—and there’s room for more analytical and innovative data talents to join us.

We are seeking a Senior AI Developer to join Avanade’s AI Engineering Team. You’ll lead the design and delivery of agentic AI solutions for our clients, split roughly 50/50 between presales and delivery. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators where you’ll shape solutions end to end, mentor junior engineers, and grow as a recognized technical leader. Together we do what matters.

This opportunity is ideal for experienced AI engineers with min 8 years in AI/ML and at least 1 year of hands-on agentic AI experience. The role is split roughly 50% presales and 50% delivery, with ad hoc travel to customer locations within the country.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end agentic AI solutions for client engagements, making key technology and design decisions across the full stack
• Lead delivery workstreams across projects, guiding hands-on implementation and mentoring junior developers
• Drive presales activities including creating proposals, responding to RFPs, estimating effort and pricing, and scoping and sizing solutions
• Build POCs and present technical demos to clients, translating business problems into compelling agentic AI solutions
• Run client workshops and discovery sessions independently, providing thought leadership on agentic AI patterns, trade-offs, and emerging trends
• Own solution quality end to end, applying RAG patterns, agent evaluation, and responsible AI practices to ensure accurate, reliable, and safe agent behavior in production

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Skills and experiences 

• Min 8 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering, with at least 1 year delivering agentic AI solutions
• Deep working experience with at least one agentic framework such as LangGraph, LangChain, Microsoft Agent Framework, ADK, or AutoGen, and a solid grasp of agent design patterns including planning, tool use, memory, and multi-agent orchestration
• Strong proficiency in Python for production-grade agent development, debugging, and performance tuning
• Hands-on experience delivering AI workloads on at least one major cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Proven experience applying RAG patterns and agent evaluation techniques in real project or product settings
• Strong English communication skills with the ability to lead client workshops, present to executives, and facilitate technical discovery
• Demonstrated experience leading technical delivery of AI solutions end to end, including making architecture decisions and mentoring junior engineers
• Experience contributing to presales activities such as proposals, effort estimation, pricing, and solution scoping in a consulting or professional services context

Nice to Have

• Relevant cloud or AI certifications (e.g., Azure AI Engineer Associate, AWS Machine Learning, or equivalent)
• Hands-on experience with the Microsoft AI ecosystem such as Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, or Power Platform
• Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it extends agent capabilities in enterprise settings
• Experience with AI workflow automation tools such as n8n or OpenAI Agent Builder
• Fluency with Git and modern AI coding assistants as part of day-to-day engineering practice

Personal Attributes

• Thought leadership instincts, comfortable shaping points of view on agentic AI and sharing them with clients and peers
• Strong sense of end-to-end solution ownership, from discovery and design through delivery and handover
• Effective stakeholder management across technical and executive audiences, including clients, delivery teams, and internal leadership
• Consulting mindset, balancing technical depth with client empathy and a sharp focus on business outcomes
• Genuine curiosity about frontier AI and willingness to learn new frameworks and techniques quickly as the agentic landscape evolves

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