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# Azure AI Engineer - Document Intelligence & Enterprise Search

- **Company:** Aarnest Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $145,600.0 - $187,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, System Configuration, Customer Data Management, Data Governance, Data Retention, Python (Programming Language), Search Technologies, SQL Databases, Enterprise Search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI Platforms, Document Classification
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ae86dba546cf3407

## About the Role

* Hands-on production delivery with Azure AI Document Intelligence (formerly Form Recognizer) - custom extraction models, confidence scoring, OCR quality management on real scanned material
 * Hands-on production delivery with Azure AI Search - indexing pipelines, skillsets, semantic ranking, vector search
 * Azure OpenAI Service - embeddings and retrieval-augmented generation, including grounding responses in a document corpus with citations
 * Document classification at corpus scale, and honest experience with what OCR accuracy actually looks like on degraded scans
 * SQL and Python
 * Able to work entirely remotely on US business hours and eligible to undergo a Tier 1 / Public Trust background investigation

Strongly preferred

 * Work inside Azure Government / M365 GCC or GCC High - not just commercial Azure
 * Microsoft Purview for data governance and classification

## Description

* Configuring Azure OpenAI so that data retention and abuse-monitoring review are disabled and no customer data leaves the authorization boundary
 * Prior federal or state government delivery; Section 508 accessibility
 * Microsoft certifications: AI-102, AZ-305, DP-600

What this role is not

Not a data-science or model-training role. You will not train, fine-tune or retrain any model on customer data - that's contractually prohibited. This is applied engineering with Azure's managed AI services inside a locked-down government tenant.

Pay: $70.00 - $90.00 per hour

Application Question(s):

 * Experience using Azure Government or GCC
 * Azure AI Document Intelligence
 * Azure AI Search
 * Azure OpenAI Service
 * What's your Work Authorization
 * Total number of years in USA


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