Currently tracking 427 active AI roles, up 208% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $193k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Research Intern - AI Frontiers Research Intern position at Microsoft AI Frontiers Lab focusing on advancing agentic model capabilities. The role involves creating models and agents that can perform tasks across digital systems using automation, reasoning, and interaction, leveraging both text and visual environments. The research includes areas like reinforcement learning for reasoning and tool use, novel training algorithms, synthetic environment creation, multi-agent training, scaling laws, and optimization techniques. The role also involves working with various data modalities and modern model architectures, with a focus on publishing in top-tier venues and potentially shipping AI technologies in products. | AgentPost-train | 10 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in AI/ML at Microsoft Research New England, focusing on defining and driving an independent research agenda in theoretical and applied AI/ML. Requires a PhD and a strong publication record at top venues. |
| Pretrain |
| 10 |
| Researcher Researcher at Microsoft Research India focusing on advancing innovation in AI/ML, including new models, scalable ML architectures, systems support, and large-scale applications. The role involves tackling open research problems, collaborating with teams, and driving research towards impactful publications and industry trends. | Pretrain | 10 |
| Senior Researcher - Foundations of Generative AI- Microsoft Research Senior Researcher focused on the foundations of generative AI, including new architectures, representations, and learning objectives for foundation models and learning agent platforms. Research areas include proactive agents, test time training, active visual reasoning, world models, multi-scale temporal reasoning, continual learning, multimodal models (VLM, VLA), and real-time agents. | PretrainAgent | 10 |
| Research Intern - MSR Montreal / ML Team Research Intern position at Microsoft Research Montreal focusing on advancing LLM research in reasoning, interaction (RL training), and modularity, specifically for agentic coding LLMs. The role involves developing, improving, and exploring AI model capabilities, contributing to cutting-edge technologies, and potentially publishing research. | PretrainPost-train | 10 |
| Research Science: Internship opportunities This is an internship opportunity for a Research Scientist at Microsoft, focusing on advancing the state-of-the-art in computer science and engineering through research in areas like Machine Learning, Natural Language Understanding, and Computer Vision. The role involves conducting research, implementing prototypes, and collaborating with teams to push forward research agendas, with a strong emphasis on academic experience and deep thinking. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Senior Research Engineer Senior Research Engineer to design, implement, and ship research-driven solutions for autonomous agents, focusing on human oversight, assistance, and management within business processes. The role involves integrating agents, humans, and applications to streamline business processes and shape the future of human-AI collaboration. | Agent | 9 |
| Principal Researcher Applied research role focused on advancing efficiency across the AI stack (models, ML frameworks, cloud infrastructure, hardware) for generative AI serving systems. The role involves exploring algorithmic, systems, and hardware/software co-design techniques for optimizations like batching, routing, scheduling, caching, and GPU architecture-aware optimizations. Emphasis on end-to-end ownership, driving research through prototyping, validation, and deployment to production for measurable customer impact. | Serve | 9 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI Principal Software Engineer role focused on building foundational platforms for intelligent agents and generative AI systems. Responsibilities include developing large-scale, cloud-native systems for agent deployment, execution, tool integration, fine-tuning, training, observability, evaluation, and optimization in production. The role operates at the intersection of distributed systems, AI infrastructure, and developer platforms, requiring strong systems thinking and architectural decision-making for systems demanding high performance, reliability, security, and compliance. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - AI Agents & Efficiency Research intern role focused on building advanced LLM agents with memory, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration, and driving efficiency in LLM applications through context engineering, adaptive inference, and system optimization. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Principal Researcher - Agentic AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Principal Researcher focused on expanding AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms. The role involves developing self-improving, adaptive agents for dynamic enterprise environments, integrating pre-training, post-training, RL, multi-agent collaboration, and deployment. Key responsibilities include research on recursive self-improvement, continual learning, human-AI collaboration, and building robust evaluation frameworks and synthetic data pipelines. | AgentData | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Agentic AI - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Research Scientist focused on agentic AI, developing self-improving, multi-agent systems that learn through interaction. The role involves research on recursive self-improvement, adaptive coordination, continual learning, human-AI collaboration, and autonomous skill acquisition. It spans the research-to-deployment spectrum with a focus on building evaluation frameworks and synthetic data pipelines, and refining architectures for scalability. The work is grounded in foundation models and learning agent platforms, with potential for product impact and publication. | AgentData | 9 |
| Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research The Principal Product Manager, Foundational AI Research role at Microsoft AI focuses on advancing the next generation of LLM models. Responsibilities include working on pre-training/post-training data and evaluations, training infrastructure, or API/Platform. The role involves prioritizing research based on customer needs, building evaluations and datasets, and collaborating with AI researchers to execute project plans. Experience in building data collection or evaluation pipelines for AI models and collaborating with ML researchers/engineers is required. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| AI for Good Research Lab: Internship Opportunities Microsoft's AI for Good Research Lab is seeking PhD interns to conduct research in AI and data to address global challenges in areas like food security, disaster response, and conservation. The role involves formulating research questions, designing and implementing experiments with machine intelligence and ML, and collaborating on developing systems from prototype to production. Candidates should have a strong academic background in AI/ML, computer vision, or NLP, with experience in Python and deep learning models. | Post-train | 9 |
| Principal Applied Scientist Seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to research and develop novel AI agents, focusing on agentic systems, multi-step reasoning, and tool use. This role involves pushing the boundaries of AI agent capabilities and contributing to impactful AI products. | Agent | 9 |
| Senior and Principal Applied Scientists - CoreAI This role focuses on the applied science foundation for observability in AI agents and multi-agent systems running at scale. It involves developing and applying scientific methods, evaluation frameworks, and measurement systems to understand, benchmark, diagnose, and improve agent-based systems in production. The role addresses unique observability challenges of AI agents, such as non-deterministic execution and emergent behaviors. | AgentEval Gate | 9 |
| Principal Product Manager, AI Model Security Product Manager for AI Model Security within Microsoft's Superintelligence Team, focusing on hardening frontier LLMs against security threats (prompt injection, jailbreaking, data exfiltration, etc.) and ensuring models deliver capabilities for real-world security workflows. This role involves defining the security roadmap, driving exploit defense, building red-teaming frameworks, partnering with security product teams, and shaping launch readiness, with a strong emphasis on understanding attacker perspectives and balancing capability with risk. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - AI Frontiers - Reasoning & Agentic Models Research Intern position focused on advancing agentic model capabilities, including reasoning, tool use, and interaction across text and visual environments. The role involves developing novel training algorithms, exploring synthetic environments, multi-agent training, and scaling laws, with a focus on foundational models and modern architectures. The internship offers a chance to publish findings and potentially ship AI technologies in products. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - Foundation Models and Agentic Systems Research intern role focused on advancing Generative AI and LLM technologies, specifically in foundation models and agentic systems. The work involves developing, improving, and exploring LLMs and Multimodal AI models, with research areas including reasoning, orchestration, multi-agent systems, and evaluation. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Principal Researcher - Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI Frontiers focused on pushing the boundaries of agentic AI, including large language and multimodal models, reasoning, and multi-agent systems. The role involves leading research, developing training methodologies, curating datasets, designing evaluation frameworks, and prototyping new agentic capabilities, with opportunities for publication and real-world impact. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Researcher - Multiple Levels, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers Research role focused on pushing the boundaries of agentic AI, large language, and multimodal models. The role involves developing cutting-edge training methodologies, curating datasets, designing evaluation frameworks, and prototyping new agentic capabilities. Emphasis on research, publication, and potential for real-world impact. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research SDE II Research SDE II at Microsoft Research India focusing on advancing AI/ML innovation, including new models, scalable architectures, systems support, and large-scale applications. The role involves working closely with researchers and engineers, driving end-to-end research and development, and potentially mentoring interns. Requires strong coding and engineering skills, comfort with open problems, and a proven track record in AI/ML. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Capacity & Efficiency Infrastructure - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on optimizing and managing the compute infrastructure for training large-scale AI models. The responsibilities include designing and implementing distributed training systems, building telemetry for performance monitoring, profiling and debugging bottlenecks, and driving architectural improvements for efficiency. The role requires strong software engineering skills in Python and C++, deep understanding of GPU architectures, and experience with distributed computing systems and ML workloads. | Serve | 9 |
| Applied Scientist II This role focuses on building and evolving the core orchestration and intelligent systems that power Microsoft's enterprise Copilot, a large-scale AI assistant for Microsoft 365. The work involves advancing model training, developing model-driven features from concept to production, and enhancing the orchestrator for improved reasoning, speed, and multi-modal/agentic capabilities. The goal is to ship cutting-edge AI technology impacting hundreds of millions of users. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Senior Software Engineer, CoreAI Senior Software Engineer on the FIT training team within Microsoft's CoreAI organization, focused on building and optimizing AI infrastructure for agentic AI systems. The role involves developing scalable infrastructure for training LLMs, SLMs, and agentic models to achieve frontier-level performance, contributing to both proprietary and open-source frameworks for enterprise-grade agentic workflows. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Principal Software Engineer, CoreAI This role focuses on building and optimizing the AI infrastructure for training agentic AI systems, including LLMs and SLMs, to achieve frontier-level performance. It involves developing scalable infrastructure and services for training, deploying, and monitoring these models in a cloud environment. | DataAgent | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Principal Tech Lead Manager, Image Generation Principal Tech Lead Manager for Copilot's image generation capabilities, focusing on technical leadership, product delivery, evaluation systems, and team building. This role involves defining the technical roadmap, integrating new models, scaling evaluation frameworks, and leading a team of AI engineers to improve image quality and user satisfaction in a high-impact consumer product. | ShipEval Gate | 9 |
| Senior Software Engineer, CoreAI The AI Core Infrastructure team is responsible for building and managing the large-scale GPU management infrastructure and inference/training platforms that power Microsoft's AI workloads. This role focuses on the training infrastructure for large-scale model pre-training, post-training, and fine-tuning on advanced GPUs in Azure and partner clouds. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Multimodal Infrastructure - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on building and maintaining large-scale infrastructure for multimodal generative models, covering the full development cycle from data processing to training, inference, and serving. It involves working with research scientists and product engineers to optimize performance and drive architectural changes for consumer AI products like Copilot. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Principal Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence - Microsoft Research Principal Researcher in Artificial Specialized Intelligence focusing on developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and scenarios. The role involves integrating AI systems, developing research prototypes, and publishing findings in top-tier venues. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, High Performance Computing Engineer - MAI SuperIntelligence Team This role focuses on building and scaling the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure required for training frontier AI models and powering AI products like Copilot. The engineer will design, operate, and maintain large-scale HPC environments, including schedulers and core domains like GPU compute, storage, and networking. Responsibilities include developing automation tools, supporting researchers and engineers, and troubleshooting cluster issues to ensure efficient job scheduling and performance. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - Artificial Specialized Intelligence - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing on Artificial Specialized Intelligence, developing cutting-edge large foundation models and post-training techniques for specific domains and real-world applications. The role involves conducting research, collaborating with cross-functional teams, developing prototypes, and publishing findings. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on the co-design and productionization of next-generation AI systems at datacenter scale, optimizing end-to-end performance and efficiency. It operates at the intersection of models, systems software, networking, storage, and AI hardware, influencing accelerator design, system architectures, and large-scale AI platforms. The role involves analyzing real workloads, developing performance models, and partnering with various teams to drive high-impact ideas into production systems. It also contributes to research and the broader community through publications and open-sourcing. | ServePretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff -Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining Text Data Seeking engineers and researchers to join the Pretraining Text Data team to build the next generation of foundation large language models. The role focuses on designing and curating high-quality datasets, developing novel data collection strategies, improving dataset quality and integrity, understanding data-driven model behaviors, training models on data impact, and aligning datasets with ethical and societal values. This is a cross-disciplinary, high-impact role at the intersection of data and innovation. | Data | 9 |
| Technical Advisor, Microsoft Superintelligence (Office of the CEO) Technical Advisor to the CEO of Microsoft AI, focusing on Humanist Superintelligence. The role involves providing strategic counsel, diving deep into research problems (model evaluation, prototyping, technical tradeoffs), and synthesizing insights for executive decision-making. It spans model development, infrastructure, safety, and alignment, requiring a blend of technical expertise and strategic advisory. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, Software Co-Design AI HPC Systems - MAI Superintelligence Team This role focuses on the co-design and productionization of next-generation AI systems at datacenter scale, optimizing performance, efficiency, and cost across hardware and software. It involves analyzing workloads, driving architectural decisions, optimizing distributed systems for training and inference, and influencing AI hardware design. The role also includes performance modeling, prototyping, and mentoring. | ServePretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - AI Pretraining - MAI Superintelligence Team Microsoft AI is seeking individuals to train the world's most capable AI frontier models, focusing on scale, performance, and product deployment. The role involves developing algorithms, model architectures, and data mixtures for large-scale training, driving implementations, conducting experiments, and collaborating with infrastructure, data, post-training, and multimodality teams. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Pretraining Text Data Seeking engineers and researchers to join the Pretraining Text Data team to build the next generation of foundation large language models. The role involves designing and curating high-quality text datasets, developing novel data collection strategies, improving dataset quality, understanding data-driven model behaviors, and aligning datasets with ethical values. Responsibilities include creating datasets for training and evaluation, developing scalable data pipelines, analyzing datasets, building tools for auditing, and collaborating with safety and ethics teams. | Data | 9 |
| Principal Product Manager, Agentic Experiences Product Manager for Agentic AI team, focusing on next-generation agentic AI products that reason, plan, and act across applications, the web, and the OS. The role involves translating AI research into scalable products for Copilot, Bing, Edge, M365, and Azure, with a focus on shipping 0-to-1 agentic products. | Agent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Foundations of GenAI Research Intern role focused on advancing Generative AI and Large Language Model Technologies, contributing to the development and exploration of LLMs and Multimodal AI models. The lab's mission is to expand AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety through innovations in foundation models and learning agent platforms, with research areas including reasoning, new architectures, action models, multi-agent systems, and evaluation. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Researcher - AI Systems - Microsoft Research Senior Researcher in AI Systems at Microsoft Research, focusing on AI infrastructure, ML systems, and HPC systems to improve efficiency and scalability across the full AI model lifecycle, including pre-training, fine-tuning, post-training, and inference. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff - Data Scientist Data Scientist role focused on building next-generation post-training methods for frontier models at Microsoft AI. Responsibilities include designing evaluations, producing high-quality training data, building scalable data pipelines, and running post-training experiments to improve model capabilities like instruction following, coding, and agentic behaviors. The role operates across the full post-training lifecycle, from data generation to reward modeling and reinforcement learning, with a focus on turning raw model capability into reliable and measurable performance improvements. | Post-trainData | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team Research role focused on developing and training world-class multimodal AI frontier models, pushing boundaries of scale and performance. Involves algorithm development, model architecture design, experimentation, data innovation, and improving training/deployment efficiency. Collaborates with infrastructure, data engineering, pre-training, post-training, and product feedback teams. Requires strong publication track record and expertise in multimodal research. | PretrainPost-train | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Multimodal - MAI Superintelligence Team Research role focused on training frontier multimodal AI foundation models at scale, pushing boundaries of performance and deployment. Involves algorithm development, model architecture design, experimentation, data innovation, and improving training/deployment efficiency. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Member of Technical Staff, AI Post-Training - MAI Superintelligence Team Post-Training - Develops and ships post-training methods for large language models (LLMs) used in Microsoft Copilot, focusing on data collection, evaluation, finetuning algorithms, and prototyping new capabilities. Collaborates with pretraining and product platform teams to deploy models and improve them based on user feedback. | Post-train | 9 |
| Research Intern - Machine Learning and Optimization Research Intern position focused on the intersection of Machine Learning, Optimization, and Large Language Models (LLMs) for efficient decision-making. Projects involve training LLMs for algorithm design, accelerating optimization algorithms, and using LLMs for sequential decision-making. The role involves designing algorithms/models, prototyping, conducting experiments, and potentially contributing to publications. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - LLM Performance Optimization Research Intern role focused on optimizing the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), involving architecture and inference performance. Requires PhD student status in a STEM field and experience with LLM architecture or inference performance optimization. Preferred qualifications include experience with GPU kernel performance bottlenecks and optimizing compiler architecture. | Serve | 9 |
| Research Software Engineer - Multiple Levels- AI Frontiers Research Software Engineer focused on Generative AI and agentic applications within Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers lab. The role involves developing, improving, and exploring capabilities of AI models and agentic systems, with a focus on creating reliable digital workers that can execute entire workflows and collaborate with humans and other agents. Key areas include enhancing agent reasoning, improving robustness, reimagining workflows for an agent-native world, and creating end-to-end experiences. | AgentData | 9 |
| Principal Research Engineer - Generative AI - AI Frontiers Research Engineer at Microsoft Research's AI Frontiers lab focused on advancing AI capabilities in modeling, algorithms, reasoning, and agentic AI. The role involves developing novel ideas in reinforcement learning, evolving pre-training and post-training codebases, and collaborating on state-of-the-art reasoning and agentic AI. Opportunities to ship research to Microsoft customers and expand AI capabilities, efficiency, and safety. | PretrainAgent | 9 |
| Research Intern - Diagnostic Imaging AI, Imaging Computing, Reconstruction and Inverse Problem Research Intern role focused on AI for medical image reconstruction and analysis. Involves developing new imaging AI model architectures, training methods, solving inverse problems for image reconstruction, and analyzing model performance including artifacts and hallucinations. Requires PhD enrollment, deep learning for imaging experience, and publication record. | Post-trainData | 9 |
