<ul><li>Design, develop, test, and deploy AI-powered applications and services.</li><li>Build and optimize LLM and generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI and related platforms.</li><li>Develop RAG architectures that connect LLMs to enterprise documents, databases, APIs, and other data sources.</li><li>Design and implement vector search, embeddings, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval capabilities.</li><li>Develop AI workflows using frameworks such as Semantic Kernel, LangChain, LangGraph, or Microsoft Copilot Studio.</li><li>Integrate AI solutions with existing enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and data platforms.</li><li>Develop production-quality services using Python and/or .NET/C#.</li><li>Work with Azure services including Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, and related cloud services.</li><li>Build data pipelines and preprocessing workflows to prepare enterprise information for AI applications.</li><li>Evaluate LLM performance, accuracy, relevance, latency, and cost.</li><li>Implement techniques such as prompt engineering, grounding, retrieval optimization, evaluation, and guardrails.</li><li>Partner with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to move AI initiatives from proof-of-concept to production.</li><li>Establish appropriate practices for security, responsible AI, data privacy, and governance.</li><li>Troubleshoot and optimize AI applications in production environments.</li><li>Stay current with emerging AI technologies, models, frameworks, and development practices.</li></ul><p><br></p>