Microsoft AI CoPilot Developer
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomContractPosted Feb 25, 2026
Job description
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design, develop, and maintain Copilot agents, plugins, connectors, and LLM workflows in Copilot Studio
- Build scalable components: prompt orchestration, retrieval layers, Power Automate flows, model interfaces, validation pipelines
- Develop and optimise RAG components — embeddings, vector queries, metadata strategies for accuracy and reliability
- Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems via Microsoft Graph, APIs, and Power Platform connectors
- Implement secure-by-design and responsible AI practices: guardrails, controls, monitoring, auditability
- Build observability: logging, telemetry, and LLM monitoring for quality and incident triage
- Create reusable assets — prompt libraries, agent templates, connectors, test harnesses, and documentation
- Conduct rapid prototyping to validate feasibility, model behaviour, UX, and performance
- Enable pro-/low-/no-code teams to adopt AI safely — support the satellite model across business functions Requirements MUST-HAVES
- Hands-on experience building solutions with LLMs, AI APIs, Copilot Studio, or agent frameworks
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval optimisation
- Experience with Microsoft Azure AI services, cloud-native engineering, and secure deployment patterns
- Experience with agent engineering: orchestration, lifecycle management, versioning, drift detection
- Secure-by-design mindset — authentication, authorisation, data protection, auditability
- Familiarity with DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, observability, and modern engineering pipelines
- Ability to debug unexpected AI behaviour — hallucinations, variability, reliability issues
- Strong documentation skills and ability to produce reusable code assets and templates