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The Software Engineer II (Agentic AI) joins the AI incubation team to rapidly prototype agents that assist sellers with account research, meeting preparation, and deal risk assessment. Working alongside a Principal engineer, you will transform whiteboard sketches into functional prototypes within days, building agents, multi-step workflows, and MCP servers. You will develop reusable skills, tools, and plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot while building lightweight evaluations using golden sets and LLM-as-judge scorers. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, Dynamics 365, Teams, and Outlook. You will solve complex sales automation problems by connecting real-time customer context to generative AI models.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2546 postings across 156 companies.
Turn new agent ideas into working prototypes within days for seller pilots.
Build agents, multi-step workflows, and MCP servers connecting to Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Graph.
Write reusable agent skills, tools, and plugins for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Build lightweight evaluations including golden sets and LLM-as-judge scorers to report quality and cost.
Harden successful prototypes with telemetry, authentication, and Responsible AI reviews for production handoff.
Write design notes and demo work to the team and leadership.
Participate in code reviews and share on-call duty for shipped pilots and services.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience in C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java (preferred).
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience in C#, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java (preferred).
Hands-on experience building applications with large language models, including prompt design, tool calling, RAG, or agent frameworks (preferred).
Experience building or integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers or exposing APIs and data to agents as tools (preferred).
Experience with agent frameworks such as Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, LangGraph, or OpenAI Agents SDK (preferred).
Experience building fast MVPs or demos from idea to working software in days, including projects that reached real users (preferred).
Annapolis Junction, MD88 days ago
$77,600–$176,000
Large Language Models
Python
Machine Learning
LSTMs
Regression
Tree-based models
SVMs
Go
Vector Databases
RAG
Semantic Search
Agentic AI
Model Evaluation
Software Design Patterns