Azure AI Engineer – Client-Facing

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❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $85 - $100 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🤖 AI Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Growth Operators

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

🎯 Recruiter

Consulting • Finance • Recruitment

<Growth Operators> is a consulting and interim-executive firm that helps mid-market and private equity-owned companies scale by providing finance and accounting advisory, human resources advisory, transaction and exit planning, and fractional/interim executive services. Using a proprietary nextLEVEL® transformation playbook and value-creation plans, they improve back-office Finance and HR functions, support M&A due diligence, exit/IPO readiness, and provide on-demand CFO/CHRO-level resources. They serve private equity firms, portfolio companies, and middle-market businesses across many industries nationwide.

📋 Description

• Build and deploy the end-to-end order intake pipeline, including document ingestion, extraction, enrichment, validation, exception handling, and downstream posting • Implement document understanding and extraction for PDFs, emails, scanned forms, and spreadsheets with measurable accuracy targets • Design and build retrieval layers using indexing, chunking, embeddings, hybrid and semantic ranking, and grounding against product catalog and customer master data • Develop and operationalize agents and orchestration logic in Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry • Implement tool and function calling, prompt design, and structured output contracts • Build ETL and data movement layers into Azure Data Lake Storage and Blob Storage • Integrate with the client’s in-flight data warehouse • Integrate CRM, ERP, logistics, and accounting platforms through REST APIs, vendor connectors, file-based interfaces, and message queues • Establish evaluation and quality gates using accuracy, precision, and exception-rate metrics • Build test sets and measure releases against quality metrics • Implement observability, logging, cost monitoring, and alerting for post-handoff operations • Build a human-in-the-loop review experience for exceptions and low-confidence extractions • Apply security and governance controls including managed identity, private networking, secrets management, data residency, and PII handling • Produce architecture documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials • Enable the client’s team to support the solution after the engagement ends • Work alongside Growth Operators’ IT leadership and the client’s internal IT team • Serve as the primary technical builder of a client solution

🎯 Requirements

• 2 to 3+ years designing and shipping AI or machine learning solutions on Microsoft Azure • At least one production deployment personally built and supported • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Foundry / Azure AI Foundry or Azure OpenAI Service • Experience with model deployment, prompt engineering, function and tool calling, structured outputs, and agent orchestration • Hands-on experience with Azure AI Search, including index design, vector and hybrid search, semantic ranking, indexers and skillsets, and retrieval quality tuning • Practical experience with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Blob Storage, including medallion or equivalent layered data organization, partitioning, and lifecycle management • Systems integration experience building and consuming REST APIs, webhooks, and authentication flows including OAuth 2.0 and Microsoft Entra ID • Experience integrating with ERP, CRM, or similar business systems • ETL and data pipeline experience using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or equivalent • Experience with incremental loads, schema drift handling, and data quality checks • Strong Python and/or C# development skills • Version control, code review, and testing discipline • Working knowledge of Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, or Event Grid • Experience with Azure Content Understanding, Azure AI Document Intelligence, or comparable OCR and form-understanding tooling • Ability to work directly with non-technical business stakeholders and translate manual processes into requirements • Ability to push back constructively when a requested approach will not hold up • Client-facing experience and ability to work in fast-paced environments • Growth Operators is an Equal Opportunity Employer

🏖️ Benefits

• Health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401k • Voluntary disability insurance • Life insurance • Accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Hospital indemnity insurance • MN Paid Family and Medical Leave • Paid time off programs • Employee assistance programs • Additional perks • Flexible work schedule and location • Interim or project-based work opportunities • Part-time or full-time project arrangements