Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) in the Microsoft 365 Growth + Incubation engineering team, you will work hands-on with customers and partners to accelerate the adoption of Copilot solutions. In this role, you will engage in complex and ambiguous technical scenarios where existing guidance may be incomplete, applying strong engineering and architectural judgment to help customers and partners design secure, scalable, and effective agentic solutions. Your work will center on unblocking technical friction, validating design decisions, and enabling sustained adoption. You will apply software engineering and systems architecture skills to guide technical decision-making, explore design tradeoffs, and validate approaches through hands-on experimentation, proof-of-concept work, and example implementations. You will work closely with customer and partner engineering teams to accelerate learning, contribute to reference architectures and reusable design patterns, and ensure solutions align with Microsoft best practices, security expectations, and Responsible AI requirements. You will join a collaborative engineering team within the Microsoft 365 Growth & Incubation organization, working in a One Microsoft model across product, engineering, and field teams. The team culture values curiosity, accountability, and continuous learning, and provides opportunities to grow technical depth and influence over time. This position is based at the Redmond campus with 3 days per week work in the office and 2 days per week work from home. Relocation assistance is available.