Senior Azure AI Platform Engineer

Senior Azure AI Platform Engineer

Location: Chicagoland or Dallas, TX - hybrid (3 days onsite)

Salary: Up to ~$130K

We're partnering with a rapidly growing, private equity-backed technology company undergoing a major cloud and AI transformation. They're modernizing a legacy .NET platform into Azure and embedding AI capabilities directly into core business applications.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who has already built and shipped AI-enabled features in production and is excited to help scale that capability across an enterprise platform.

What you'll do

• Build and integrate AI-powered capabilities into a .NET application stack
• Develop backend services and APIs using C#/.NET
• Design and implement cloud-native components and microservices in Azure
• Integrate Azure AI / OpenAI (or similar cloud AI services) into real-world workflows
• Partner with product and business teams to translate AI ideas into production-ready solutions
• Help establish patterns and best practices for scalable, secure AI adoption

Preferred Experience

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong hands-on experience with C# and .NET
• Experience building or integrating AI/ML solutions in production environments
• Cloud experience (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable)
• Strong experience with REST APIs and modern backend architecture
• Comfortable working in a hybrid environment (3 days onsite weekly)

Nice to have

• Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, etc.)
• Microservices architecture and application modernization experience
• Frontend exposure (React, Angular, or similar)
• Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or CI/CD pipelines