Forward Deployed Engineer / AI-Architect — Microsoft Technologies (m/f/d)

Organisations are moving from experimentation towards responsible, scalable AI adoption. In Germany, clients face increasing pressure to turn business challenges into actionable prototypes that demonstrate real value. As aForward Deployed Engineer / AI-Architect in a hybrid role, you help bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions by rapidly creating and showcasing AI-powered prototypes using Microsoft technologies. Your work directly supports clients seeking to accelerate their transformation and make informed decisions about production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with account teams to understand business problems, workflows, users, data and technical constraints
• Translate loosely defined requirements into practical solution concepts and prototype plans
• Build end-to-end prototypes, proofs of concept and minimum viable products quickly using AI tools
• Use AI development tools, especially GitHub Copilot, to accelerate coding, testing, documentation and troubleshooting
• Design and implement solutions using Microsoft Azure, Azure Functions, App Service, Container Apps, AKS, API Management, Azure AI Foundry, Azure ML, Teams, Microsoft Graph, GitHub, GitHub Actions and GitHub Copilot
• Optionally use Azure DevOps, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, Microsoft Copilot Studio and Microsoft 365
• Apply appropriate security, identity, privacy and governance practices including Microsoft Entra ID and role-based access control
• Prepare and deliver compelling live customer demonstrations
• Clearly explain technical decisions, limitations, risks and potential production paths
• Gather feedback during demonstrations and rapidly iterate on the solution
• Collaborate with sales, product, design, architecture and engineering teams
• Convert successful prototypes into recommendations and handover materials for production engineering teams
• Share reusable components, patterns, prompts and lessons across the organization

Requirements

• Strong practical development experience in at least one of C# .NET, Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript or Node.js
• Ability to develop a functional solution across frontend, backend, APIs, data, authentication and deployment
• Understanding of cloud-native application design
• Experience building generative-AI applications such as RAG, copilots, agents or retrieval-augmented generation solutions