Microsoft AI Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid) Day rate: £400 per day Outside IR35 We're looking for a hands-on Microsoft AI Engineer to join a growing technology team and help build and roll out AI solutions across the business. This is a…

Outside IR35 Hybrid IT
Pay rate £350 – £400/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 6 October 2026

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About this contract

Location: London (Hybrid)
Day rate: £400 per day Outside IR35

We're looking for a hands-on Microsoft AI Engineer to join a growing technology team and help build and roll out AI solutions across the business.

This is a proper engineering role rather than something focused purely on AI strategy or proof of concepts. You'll be taking ideas from the business, working out how AI can genuinely solve the problem, and then building solutions that can be deployed and used in a live enterprise environment.

You'll be working mainly across the Microsoft ecosystem, including Azure AI, Copilot and the wider Microsoft cloud stack.

What you'll be doing

Building AI applications, copilots, agents and automated workflows
Developing solutions using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI services and Copilot Studio
Building RAG and enterprise search solutions using internal business data
Connecting AI solutions into platforms such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dataverse and other business systems
Working with APIs, connectors and Azure services to build integrations
Developing and improving prompts, agent workflows and AI tooling
Taking solutions through development, testing and into production
Making sure solutions are secure, reliable and properly governed
Monitoring live AI services and improving performance, accuracy and cost
Working with technical teams and business users to identify where AI can actually add valueWhat we're looking for

You'll need genuine hands-on experience building AI solutions within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Ideally, your background will include several of the following:

Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Foundry
Copilot Studio
Microsoft 365 Copilot
Azure AI Search
RAG / knowledge-grounded AI applications
AI agents and agentic workflows
Microsoft Fabric
Power Platform
Azure Functions / Logic Apps
APIs and system integrations
Python, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar
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