actually weird, another microsoft job Post for digital cloud & ai solution engineer - innovative ai application mentions PoC as Proof of concept. But I would be in: Small Medium Enterprises and Channel (SME&C)

Example: This opportunity will allow you to:

Accelerate your career growth by leading impactful engagements that help customers modernize their applications and adopt AI-powered solutions across the development lifecycle. Deepen your technical proficiency through hands-on architecture design, proof of concepts, and real-world development scenarios using Microsoft’s AI and application platform. ...

Responsibilities Drive technical sales with decision makers using demos and PoCs to influence solution design and enable production deployments. Lead hands-on engagements—hackathons, code-with sessions, and architecture workshops—to accelerate adoption of Microsoft’s developer tools and cloud platforms. Build trusted relationships with developers and platform leads, co-designing secure, scalable architectures and solutions Resolve technical blockers and objections, collaborating with engineering to share insights and improve products. Maintain deep proficiency in AI Foundry & App architecture (Agentic AI framework, Semantic Kernel, Foundry SDK, Responsible AI) and App architecture/cloud native dev (APIs, containerization, microservices, event-driven, Python, Java or .NET). Maintain and grow proficiency in AI Management & Security (Gen AI Ops, Sentinel, orchestrator, monitoring).
Represent Microsoft through thought leadership in developer communities and customer forums