Contract Microsoft Foundry AI Engineer
Role overview
We’re looking for an experienced AI Engineer to join a team working with Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft's rapidly evolving AI platform.
This role is focused on the hands-on development of AI agents, integrations and solutions within Microsoft Foundry, working with Azure AI services and emerging generative AI technologies.
You’ll be involved in building practical, production-ready AI solutions and integrating them into wider applications and technology ecosystems.
Responsibilities
- check_circle Build and configure AI agents using Microsoft Foundry.
- check_circle Develop integrations between Foundry agents, applications, APIs and external services.
- check_circle Work with Azure AI services and generative AI technologies to deliver business solutions.
- check_circle Develop and test LLM-powered applications and agentic workflows.
- check_circle Integrate AI capabilities into existing technology platforms and applications.
- check_circle Work with APIs, SDKs and cloud services to create robust AI integrations.
- check_circle Apply software engineering best practices to AI solutions, including testing, version control and CI/CD.
- check_circle Troubleshoot and optimise AI applications for performance, reliability and scalability.
- check_circle Work alongside senior engineers and architects to implement agreed technical patterns and standards.
- check_circle Keep up to date with new Microsoft Foundry capabilities and emerging AI technologies.
Basic qualifications
- Strong software engineering experience, ideally within Microsoft Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry / Azure OpenAI / Copilot Studio, or demonstrable experience with closely related Azure AI technologies.
- Experience working with generative AI, LLMs or AI agents.
- Experience developing integrations using APIs and SDKs.
- Programming experience in languages such as Python or Typescript.
- Understanding of cloud-based application development and modern engineering practices.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment where technologies and best practices are continually evolving.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with Azure OpenAI.
- Experience building AI agents or agentic workflows.
- Knowledge of RAG, embeddings and vector databases/search.
- Experience with Azure AI Search.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering and evaluation of LLM applications.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Knowledge of containers, microservices and serverless technologies.
About the company
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.
We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity.
This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK, Europe and the USA with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years.
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