Senior Software Engineer - AI I

This posting is for proactive recruitment purposes and may be used to fill current openings or future vacancies within our organization.

 

 

Job Description

Software Engineer – AI (.NET | Azure OpenAI) - Open to candidates that can sit in NYC, Minnesota, Toronto

Short Introduction / Context / Summary

Join us to build the next generation of AI‑powered .NET systems. You’ll architect high‑performance services, design retrieval and agentic workflows, and bring Azure OpenAI capabilities to life in real‑world applications. If you’re excited about applied AI, clean engineering, and building production systems end‑to‑end, this role is for you.

About the Role

• Build and own .NET services and REST APIs integrated with Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Services.
• Design RAG pipelines using Azure AI Search (hybrid retrieval, chunking strategies, grounding, citations).
• Create agentic workflows using tool/function calling, planning, memory, and guardrails for safe execution.
• Develop Semantic Kernel skills, connectors, and planners to orchestrate intelligent behavior.
• Implement robust observability across latency, cost, token usage, quality metrics (App Insights/OpenTelemetry).
• Collaborate with product, security, and data partners to ensure compliant and impactful solutions.
• Lead through engineering excellence—mentoring teammates, writing RFCs, and guiding architecture decisions.

About You

Required Skills

• Azure AI Services:
• Azure OpenAI (GPT, embeddings, function calling, streaming, cost control),
• Azure AI Search (indexing, hybrid search, skillsets, re‑ranking), Azure AI Studio (prompt flows, eval pipelines)
• Azure Infrastructure: App Service, Functions, AKS, Container Apps, API Management, Key Vault
• RAG Engineering: chunking, metadata enrichment, hybrid retrieval, citation accuracy.
• Agentic AI: tools, planners, memory management, guardrails.
• C# / .NET 7/8: async streams, DI, clean architecture, performance tuning.
• ASP.NET Core: API design, OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, caching, resiliency patterns.
• Semantic Kernel (C#): skills, connectors, planners, memory stores.
• Azure Infrastructure: App Service, Functions, AKS/Container Apps, API Management, Key Vault.
• Security & Quality: PII handling, auditing, testing (unit/integration/contract), CI/CD.

Nice-to-Have

• Knowledge graphs (Neo4j/RDF)

• Azure Cognitive Services (Document Intelligence, Speech, Vision)
• Advanced Azure Search (custom scoring, multi‑source ingestion)
• AI quality evaluation (hallucination detection, RAGAS)
• Front-end integration (React/Blazor streaming UX)

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its cus