Avanade's AI Engineer role is responsible for developing scalable AI solutions aligned to a business strategy and benefits case. The role will be to work as part of a team to impact real world problems by delivering technical AI work. To be successful in this role you will need to be passionate about Data & AI, a continuous learner, and a strong team player.

Come join us

As an AI Engineer, you will be based on-site in Milwaukee and will help clients understand and extract insight and value from their data using Microsoft AI technologies. Working as part of a team, you will be involved in all phases of AI projects including question/use case formulation, design, research, build, and testing. This role will explore and understand data to build advanced AI solutions.

Skills And Experiences

Skills/ Experience:

• Demonstrable professional experience with build AI solutions over complex data sets (including data prep and ingestion) in industry scenarios
• Proficiency in building RAG/GraphRAG solutions powered by LLMs
• Highly proficient with two or more languages, such as Python, PySpark, R, SQL, etc. Azure AI services (including Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, and Azure ML to support building out capabilities listed above)
• Software engineering experience using DevOps principals (Knowledge of DevOps workflows, Git, containers, CI/CD, etc.)
• Good communication and presentation skills. Able to explain complex analytical methodologies and concepts in non-technical language to audiences at multiple skill levels.
• Bonus Skills: Preference for prior experience working and developing in Azure
  
  

About You

About You:

• You likely possess a degree in Computer Science or Engineering or have experience in a relevant field in the industry. An equivalent combination of education and experience will also suffice.
• You likely have about 1-2 years+ of demonstrable experience building AI solutions, preferably in a consulting environment working directly with clients
  
  

Other Information: You will be onsite 5 days per week University of Madison Wisconsin, Milwaukee Campus.

Compensation for roles at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, Arizona, and Washington as set forth below.

Range of Starting Pay for role: Wisconsin $76,000 to $111,000

What You'll Do

What you'll do:

• Customer readiness and onboarding, nominations review, and use case vetting processes
• Proof of Concept solution design and prototyping with AI technology, with a primary focus on AI capabilities like OCR, NLP, reasoning with LLMs, AI agents, and AI Search with traditional and vector DBs and a secondary focus on machine learning
• Produce solutions for clients working with both structured and unstructured data applying these AI capabilities
• Conduct customer satisfaction surveys and share key learnings, run customer engagement reports and project retrospective reports as well as provide summary for customer & logging product bugs with engineering team
• Provide facility tours, manage demo showcase, and process improvements
• Communicate insights to help steer business strategy and decision-making
  
  

Learn more

Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation, Avanade has more certifications, Gold-level competencies and most valued professionals (MVPs) than any other Microsoft partner. Every day, our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries innovate responsibly to make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.

To learn more about the types of projects our Analytics team works on check out this information

thyssenkrupp Materials Services uses data to help strike a delicate operational balance https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/thyssenkrupp

What matters to SSE Renewables is innovating for a sustainable future https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/sse-renewables-ai

Hachette UK enables employees with machine learning-driven contract searches https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/hachette-automated-identification

Marston Holdings identifies significant cloud savings https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/marston-holdings

Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights

Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits Employee Benefits at Avanade https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you will get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our Inclusion & Diversity page

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking
• Experimenting courageously
• Learning and pivoting
  
  

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice
• Encouraging boldness
• Celebrating progress
  
  

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client
• Prioritizing what matters
• Acting as one
  
  

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.