Senior Copilot & Azure AI Foundry Engineer

Hearst Television (HTV) is hiring a Senior Copilot & Azure AI Foundry Engineer to lead the build of our next-generation platform. You will be instrumental in designing building stabilizing and scaling enterprise-grade AI solutions using Microsofts Azure AI ecosystem. As a senior technical resource with expertise in AI architectures MLOps and orchestration frameworks you will evaluate and enhance our Copilot Studio agents ensuring they are scalable accurate maintainable and aligned with modern Azure AI best practices. This role is central to our mission of transforming media sales through prescriptive actionable intelligence. This position does not provide sponsorship.

What Youll Do

Copilot Optimization: Analyze and refactor Copilot Studio agents to eliminate redundancies improve routing efficiency and streamline topic structures for better maintainability.

Generative AI Modernization: Transition static rule-based topics into grounded generative experiences and replace legacy ingestion methods with modern Azure AI approaches.

Advanced RAG Implementation: Enhance solution accuracy by integrating Azure AI Foundry capabilities including Cognitive Search with vector embeddings and custom RAG endpoints.

Sophisticated AI Features: Implement high-level capabilities like multi-step reasoning context persistence summarization and function calling for complex user interactions.

End-to-End MLOps: Design and manage scalable AI/ML pipelines covering everything from model fine-tuning and versioning to CI/CD monitoring and security.

Architectural Leadership: Serve as the technical lead to design scalable architectures guiding best practices and ensuring internal teams can maintain the solution post-handoff.

Operational Enablement: Develop infrastructure-as-code for resilient workloads and produce comprehensive documentation including troubleshooting guides and operational playbooks.

Requirements

Experience: 8 years in software architecture or cloud engineering with at least 3 years specifically focused on production-grade AI/ML solutions.

AI Ecosystem: Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio).

Technical Proficiency: Expert-level Python for AI/ML development and automation; additional experience in C# .NET or Java is preferred.

AI Specialization: Solid understanding of Generative AI prompt engineering RAG architectures embeddings and vector databases.

MLOps & DevOps: Demonstrated experience with model lifecycle management CI/CD pipelines and designing resilient serverless AI workloads.

Problem Solving: Proven ability to troubleshoot refactor and optimize existing AI solutions to meet 99.8% accuracy targets.

Soft Skills: Ability to lead architectural discussions with executive stakeholders and translate business needs into technical AI requirements.

Values in Action

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all backgrounds perspectives and identities. Thats why behind the scenes we believe in being an organization that fosters collaboration and open communication ensuring that the content we create is authentic accurate and connected to the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearsts benefit programs are modern flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits:

Medical Dental Vision

401(k) matching

Emotional Wellness Support

Paid Time Off & Parental Leave

LGBTQ Health Services