AI Agent Engineer - Microsoft Copilot Studio
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Build and enhance enterprise AI agents using Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Configure agent instructions, topics, knowledge sources, actions and conversation flows.
- Integrate agents with SharePoint, Microsoft 365 and enterprise applications.
- Develop agent actions using Power Automate, standard connectors, custom connectors and REST APIs.
- Design effective prompts, grounding instructions, fallback handling and structured responses.
- Implement authentication, authorization and role-based access for agent integrations.
- Test agent accuracy, grounding, actions, integrations and edge cases.
- Troubleshoot Copilot Studio, Power Automate, connector and API issues.
- Support Power Platform ALM and deployment across Development, Test and Production environments.
- Create reusable agent components, integration patterns and technical documentation.
- Collaborate with product owners, architects, security teams and integration teams to deliver production-ready agents.
REQUIREMENTS
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- 4–5 years of relevant Microsoft technology or application-development experience.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio.
- Experience with Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Power Automate.
- Working knowledge of Power Apps and Dataverse.
- Experience developing actions using connectors, custom connectors and REST APIs.
- Good understanding of JSON, data mapping, API error handling and integration troubleshooting.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0 and role-based access.
- Strong prompt engineering and agent-instruction design skills.
- Understanding of grounding, hallucination risks, sensitive-data handling and Responsible AI.
- Experience testing, troubleshooting and deploying enterprise applications or AI agents.
- Ability to independently move an agent use case from requirements through build, testing and deployment.
- Work in 3pm to 12am IST shift.
Desirable Skills
- Microsoft Graph API experience.
- Oracle Fusion HCM or other enterprise HR-system integration experience.
- Exposure to Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry or Model Context Protocol.
- Experience working with sensitive employee or HR data.
- Azure DevOps and CI/CD knowledge.
- Relevant Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform or AI certifications.
What Success Looks Like
- Secure, reliable and production-ready Copilot Studio agents.
- Reusable agent actions, components and integration patterns.
- Consistent testing, deployment and troubleshooting practices.
- AI agents aligned with enterprise security, privacy and governance standards.
Ideal Candidate
You are a hands-on AI-agent engineer who enjoys building and troubleshooting working solutions. You can translate a business use case into a secure, tested and maintainable Copilot Studio agent while collaborating effectively with architecture, security and product teams.