Copilot Studio Developer

Salary: $145,600 - 187,200 per year

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of agent development, generative AI, process automation, data integration, Microsoft cloud services, and enterprise governance.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, including custom agents, agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot, environments, publishing, sharing, and analytics.
• Familiarity with generative orchestration, agent instructions, topics, triggers, entities, variables, nodes, fallback behavior, and reusable conversation patterns.
• Knowledge of generative AI concepts such as grounding, retrieval, prompt design, context management, model limitations, and responsible AI.
• Experience configuring knowledge sources such as SharePoint, Dataverse, websites, files, Copilot connectors, and Power Platform connectors.
• Familiarity with agent tools, prompts, agent flows, Power Automate cloud flows, prebuilt and custom connectors, and REST APIs.
• Ability to create tool and knowledge descriptions that support orchestration, input collection, output handling, and multistep execution.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dataverse, including data modeling, security roles, business rules, and solution components.
• Experience with Microsoft 365 integrations, including SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, and Microsoft Graph.
• Familiarity with authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, service principals, and user- or maker-provided connections.
• Knowledge of Power Fx, expressions, formulas, adaptive cards, JSON, and reusable development patterns.
• Experience with Power Platform solutions, environments, connection references, environment variables, pipelines, and managed deployments.
• Familiarity with application lifecycle management, source control, testing, release management, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience with agent testing and evaluation, including test sets, activity traces, conversation history, analytics, answer quality, task completion, and regression testing.
• Knowledge of security, governance, data loss prevention, privacy, accessibility, performance, licensing, capacity, and supportability.
• Skills in requirements analysis, conversation design, technical documentation, troubleshooting, and customer support.
• Strong customer focus, analytical thinking, communication, collaboration, ownership, and adaptability.
• Experience with Azure services such as Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Service Bus, Application Insights, Azure AI services, and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub for source control, work tracking, automated testing, builds, and deployment pipelines.
• Experience designing multi-agent solutions with connected agents, reusable capabilities, and defined handoffs.
• Experience integrating Model Context Protocol servers, REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, custom connectors, and enterprise authentication patterns.
• Experience with Power Platform CLI, Visual Studio Code, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, adaptive cards, and RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft 365 extensibility.
• Experience implementing responsible AI, security reviews, data governance, and operational controls for production agent solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, publish, and support custom agents and agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot using Copilot Studio.
• Configure agent instructions, generative orchestration, topics, entities, variables, conversation paths, system topics, and fallback behavior.
• Create grounded agent experiences using approved knowledge sources, including SharePoint, Dataverse, websites, files, and enterprise data.
• Extend agents with tools, prompts, agent flows, Power Automate cloud flows, Power Platform connectors, and custom connectors.
• Integrate agents with REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, Dataverse, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, Dynamics 365, Azure services, and other enterprise systems.
• Evaluate Model Context Protocol servers and connected agents for modular, governed access to tools, resources, and specialized capabilities.
• Design agent architectures for conversational, event-driven, autonomous, and multi-agent business scenarios.
• Gather requirements and translate business needs into agent use cases, technical and conversation designs, tool contracts, and product backlogs.
• Write clear agent, topic, tool, and knowledge descriptions to help generative orchestration select appropriate resources and sequences.
• Apply application lifecycle management practices using solutions, environments, source control, pipelines, environment variables, connection references, and managed deployments.
• Protect enterprise data with authentication, authorization, data loss prevention policies, environment controls, connector governance, and secure integration patterns.
• Apply responsible AI practices, including grounding, transparency, human oversight, content safety, privacy, and risk-based controls.
• Create test plans, test sets, evaluations, and acceptance criteria for answer quality, tool selection, task completion, safety, performance, and reliability.
• Use the test panel, activity trace, conversation history, analytics, and monitoring data to troubleshoot defects and improve agent performance.
• Publish agents to approved channels such as Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot, SharePoint, and web experiences.
• Prepare architecture records, prompt and instruction documentation, deployment records, support procedures, runbooks, and knowledge articles.
• Partner with platform administrators, architects, security teams, data owners, business analysts, makers, developers, and support teams.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Azure
• C#
• Cloud
• Copilot
• DevOps
• GitHub
• Support
• JSON
• JavaScript
• Microsoft 365
• OAuth
• OpenAPI
• REST
• Security
• SharePoint
• TypeScript
• Visual Studio
• Web
• Office 365

More:

We are hiring a Copilot Studio Developer to design, deploy, and support secure enterprise agents and workflows, integrating them with Microsoft 365 and other business systems while applying governance, monitoring, and continuous improvement practices. This engagement is expected to last 12 months or longer, with strong potential for extension. The stated work location is Tempe, Arizona, with a hybrid schedule of two days onsite; the posting also indicates that the role can be fully remote. Compensation is $70–$90 per hour for an expected 35–45 hours per week. Benefits include dental, health, and vision insurance, as well as paid sick time.

last updated 41 week of 2026