Microsoft has 521 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are focused on agents, representing 37% of the total, followed by application and serving infrastructure. Engineering is the most frequent function, with a significant number of openings, and the United States is the primary hiring country. Frequent tech tags include agent orchestration, model serving, and LLM observability, suggesting a focus on operationalizing AI models. Over the last 30 days, Microsoft has added 280 new AI roles, a 157% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
Currently tracking 250 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $65k–$331k (avg $195k).
Microsoft currently has 343 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Software Engineer (19), Senior Software Engineer (19), Software Engineer II (8), Principal Applied Scientist (7), Principal Data Scientist (4). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Microsoft's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), application (21%), serving infrastructure (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Microsoft is hiring AI talent in: United States (308 roles), Canada (15 roles), Japan (8 roles), United Kingdom (7 roles).
Job postings at Microsoft most frequently mention: Computer Architecture, Python, Machine Learning, C#, C++.
In the past 30 days, Microsoft has posted 227 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher Researcher at Microsoft focusing on advancing the state-of-the-art in AI, Computer Systems, Networking, NLU, Computer Vision, and ML. The role involves conducting research, leading collaborations, formulating research problems, and developing prototypes. While expertise is provided to product groups, the primary focus is on academic knowledge advancement rather than immediate product needs. The role requires strong programming skills, depth of knowledge in AI fields, and experience in research execution and publication. | Pretrain | 9 |
| Sr Research Scientist Senior Research Scientist to lead cutting-edge projects from concept to product, focusing on AI for Developers. This role involves building and training state-of-the-art models, applying and advancing techniques for leveraging LLMs in software engineering (including RAG and evaluation), and collaborating with product teams to run large-scale experiments and improve AI solutions. The primary focus is on AI for code completion and editing, retrieval-augmented systems for codebases, and efficient inference algorithms for code generation. |
| AgentServe |
| 8 |
| Research Science: Internship opportunities This is an internship opportunity for a Research Scientist focused on conducting research and leading collaborations to advance the state-of-the-art in computer science and engineering, with a focus on machine intelligence and machine learning applications. The role involves analyzing algorithms, implementing prototypes, and developing solutions for large-scale problems, contributing to academic knowledge and potentially influencing future product development. | Pretrain | 7 |
| Principal PM Manager--SOX ODSP Product Management Manager role focused on leading a team to define and drive the product roadmap for AI-powered collaboration experiences within the OneDrive and SharePoint organization. The role involves people leadership, product strategy, and cross-functional collaboration, with a strong emphasis on integrating AI/ML technologies like Microsoft Copilot and AI agents into enterprise content management and compliance workflows. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer--Backend--Microsoft Copilot Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft Copilot's backend platform, focusing on scaling AI services, integrating AI models, and providing tools for engineers. Requires strong backend and cloud infrastructure experience. | Serve | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineering--Backend--Microsoft Copilot This role focuses on building and scaling the backend platform for Microsoft Copilot, integrating with AI models and empowering Copilot teams. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain performant and secure AI Platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. The role requires experience with public cloud infrastructure, containerization, and production software development. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer--Infra-Microsoft Copilot The role focuses on building and scaling the backend platform for Microsoft Copilot, including integrations with AI models and tools for engineering teams. The engineer will design, develop, and maintain performant and secure AI Platform services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. This involves working with public cloud infrastructure, containerization technologies, and production software release. | Serve | 7 |
| Digital Solution Engineer - D365 CE This role is for a Digital Solution Engineer focused on AI-powered business applications, specifically Dynamics 365 Sales & Service. The engineer will lead AI transformation engagements, own technical win strategies, design solutions, deliver demonstrations, and engage with C-suite executives and technical decision-makers. The role involves showcasing Microsoft's AI capabilities in D365 solutions, addressing technical blockers like AI compliance and security, and leveraging the partner ecosystem. The primary focus is on selling and implementing AI-driven business processes for the SME-C segment. | — | 5 |
| Solution Specialists-Digital Native This role focuses on leading sales discussions with customer stakeholders to identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities. It involves leveraging AI-driven market intelligence and predictive analytics tools to assess trends, forecast needs, and develop sales strategies. The role also emphasizes driving AI- and cloud-driven transformations for customers and managing sales pipelines using AI-powered analytics. The primary function is sales and customer engagement, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer Director-Digital Native This role is for a Solution Engineer Director focused on Digital Native Startups and Unicorns, leveraging the Microsoft Cloud and AI capabilities to empower their innovation and scaling. The role involves leading a team of Solution Engineers, acting as trusted advisors, and driving technical decisions for customers to achieve business value with Azure. It emphasizes people management, scaling customer engagements through technical expertise and partner collaboration, and building strategy around cloud and AI technologies. | — | 5 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role focuses on designing and operating a global connectivity and routing tier for Microsoft 365, which is being extended to power AI and Copilot experiences. The engineer will build large-scale distributed systems for intelligent routing, ensuring low latency and high availability, and will partner with teams to deliver features that improve customer experience. Experience with AI/ML-driven decision systems or intelligent routing is preferred. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer--Innovation Hub Solution Engineer for Microsoft's Innovation Hub, focusing on guiding customers through AI transformation journeys by delivering technical engagements, designing solutions, and leading strategic initiatives. This role involves deep technical expertise in AI platforms and trends to drive customer impact and adoption. | — | 5 |
| Solution Architecture Manager Lead a team of Solution Architects to drive customer digital and AI transformation journeys, focusing on solution strategy, consultative engagement, and successful architecture and delivery outcomes across strategic enterprise engagements. | — | 5 |
| Solution Area Specialists--Biz Apps This role focuses on leading discussions with customer stakeholders to identify, qualify, and accelerate sales opportunities, leveraging AI-driven market intelligence and predictive analytics tools. The specialist partners across organizations to support AI- and cloud-driven transformations for customers, driving sales strategies tailored to security priorities and ensuring accurate forecasting using AI-powered tools. The primary goal is to drive sales and customer success within the business applications solution area, emphasizing the integration of AI and cloud services. | — | 5 |
| Cloud Solution Architect Cloud Solution Architect specializing in data platforms and analytics to help customers build secure, scalable, and AI-ready solutions on Microsoft Azure. This customer-facing role involves architecture design, proof of concepts, and production deployments, ensuring performance, resiliency, and security. The role leverages existing IP and execution engines to drive delivery excellence, accelerate adoption, and ensure successful deployments for services like Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Cosmos DB, and Purview. Collaboration with engineering teams and staying current with trends are key to helping customers unlock the full value of their data and AI investments. | — | 5 |
| Solution Engineer--Innovation Hub Solution Engineer in Microsoft's Innovation Hub focused on helping enterprise customers solve business challenges using cross-workload solutions, particularly AI-driven solutions built on the AI Agent cloud platform. The role involves delivering technical engagements, solution design, setting digital vision, building strategy, and acting as a go-to technical expert for AI & Agents, including concepts like planning, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and safety within the Microsoft ecosystem. | Agent | 5 |
| Finance Manager This role is for a Finance Manager in Microsoft Devices, focusing on hardware production, supply chain asset management, and compliance control. The candidate will partner with operations and business teams to drive cost efficiency, manage pricing, ensure compliance, and provide financial predictability. A key aspect of the role involves identifying and driving AI and RPA opportunities to automate and simplify finance workflows, leveraging data-driven insights and automation tools to improve business outcomes. | — | 1 |
| Account Executive Account Executive role at Microsoft focused on partnering with strategic enterprise customers to drive digital transformation, with a focus on AI, Copilot, and Security solutions. The role involves developing account plans, engaging with senior customer stakeholders, orchestrating internal Microsoft teams, identifying new business opportunities, and achieving revenue targets. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive at Microsoft, focused on selling services and solutions that leverage AI and Microsoft Cloud. The primary responsibility is to drive customer value and achieve sales targets by aligning business goals with transformative solutions, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal stakeholders and partners. While AI is mentioned as a key component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or researching AI models. | — | 0 |
| SR CONSULTING AE - Retail This role is for a Senior Consulting Account Executive in the Retail industry, focusing on selling Microsoft Cloud and AI solutions to customers. The primary responsibility is to drive sales and customer value through consultative selling, managing the full sales cycle, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to achieve sales targets. While AI is mentioned as a component of the solutions sold, the core craft of the role is sales and account management, not building or directly working with AI models. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Account Manager Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft focused on empowering customers to achieve business value through Microsoft's products and services. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, developing customer success plans, and driving adoption and usage of Microsoft products. | — | 0 |
| Account Management-Digital Native Account Executive role focused on engaging with digital native customers in China, leveraging Microsoft AI and Azure to drive their international business expansion and achieve customer success. This role involves leading cross-functional teams, developing account plans, identifying opportunities, and closing deals to meet revenue targets and support Microsoft's business growth. | — | 0 |
| Solution Specialists-Digital Native This role focuses on managing customer relationships, driving sales, and developing strategies for strategic accounts within the digital native sector. It involves understanding customer needs, articulating business value, and leading sales execution with partners. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive-Digital Native Account Executive focused on cultivating customer relationships, understanding their needs, and driving digital transformation to achieve business outcomes. The role involves strategic account planning, identifying new business opportunities, and leveraging internal and external partners to maximize sales, including upselling and cross-selling. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft 365 (M365) Workload Management (WLM) team, responsible for managing execution of millions of background and system tasks for M365 backend servers. The role focuses on maximizing resource utilization, ensuring system stability and efficiency, and driving intelligent automated operations. Requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with large-scale distributed systems, and ability to own features from design to production. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineering II Software Engineer II at Microsoft 365 (M365) responsible for managing execution of millions of background and system tasks for M365 backend servers. The role focuses on maximizing resource utilization, ensuring system stability and efficiency, and driving continuous improvement towards integrated and intelligent automated operations. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of technical engineering experience, proficiency in modern programming languages, and solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and software design. Experience with distributed systems, telemetry, logging, and cloud platforms is preferred. Exposure to AI-powered systems or AI-assisted development tools is a plus. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager: Internship Opportunities Product Manager Intern role at Microsoft's MAIA team, focusing on AI product innovation and development for various products like Edge, Bing, and Maps. The internship involves defining product vision, strategy, roadmap, and features, collaborating with engineering and design teams, and driving product growth. The role requires identifying customer needs, tracking metrics, and iterating on designs. | — | 0 |
| Account Mgr - Ads Account Manager for Microsoft Advertising responsible for driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized solutions. This role involves managing client accounts, proactively monitoring activities, seeking feedback, growing business, and creating long-term strategies to improve client experience and establish the business value of Microsoft's advertising services. The Account Manager will also adopt Microsoft sales strategies, leverage Unified Client Management tools, generate business and upsells through value-proposition presentations and specialized business plans, and develop a comprehensive understanding of clients' marketing needs and competition to anticipate needs and deliver insights. The role requires acting as a thought leader on industry trends, technology, and KPIs, and leveraging competitive knowledge to elevate client success and create revenue-increasing solutions. | — | 0 |
| Account Manager(Advertising) Account Manager for Microsoft Advertising, focused on driving revenue and customer satisfaction by developing strategic client relationships and delivering customized digital advertising solutions. The role involves managing client accounts, understanding marketing needs, and acting as a thought leader on industry trends. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Account Executive-Digital Native This role manages the development and application of a mature/dynamic customer plan based on proven methodologies to manage a sustainable, long-term business portfolio. It involves collaborating across organizations and partners to impact the broader ecosystem, leveraging relationships with leaders to shape long-term strategic direction and influence business metrics. The role expands strategic customer relationships, anticipates issues/risks, and develops strategies showcasing the value of Microsoft's cloud offerings grounded in industry trends and account needs. It also leverages internal networks to strengthen knowledge of industry, competitors, and customer priorities, and shares knowledge internally to enhance growth. | — | 0 |
| Sales Excellence Director Director of Sales Excellence for Microsoft Advertising in China, focusing on driving operational excellence, scalable solutions for sellers and partners, optimizing investments, and accelerating growth. This role involves partnering with sales leadership, collaborating with various internal teams (Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Finance, HR, Legal), and leading business transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate is a seasoned leader with strong coaching, collaboration, and influencing skills, experienced in sales operations, data-driven decision-making, and people management. | — | 0 |
| CSAM Lead This role is for a Customer Success Account Management (CSAM) Lead at Microsoft, responsible for managing a team of CSAMs, driving customer success through strategic planning and delivery, and ensuring customer adoption of Microsoft products and services. The role involves people management, customer relationship management, and technical relevance within the Microsoft ecosystem. | — | 0 |
| Digital Solution Area Specialist This role is a Digital Solution Specialist for Microsoft Azure in the Small Business Segment. The primary focus is on driving Azure adoption and consumption by acting as a trusted technical advisor to customers, leading technical engagements, and designing scalable cloud solutions. The role involves customer-facing sales execution, territory management, and collaborating with internal teams and partners to identify and close opportunities, ultimately contributing to net-new revenue and workload expansion. | — | 0 |
| Logistics Technician This role is for a Logistics Technician in a Microsoft Data Center, responsible for inventory audits, deliveries, vendor coordination, and documentation. It involves managing inventory principles, warranty processes, and data-bearing device destruction. | — | 0 |
| Sales Business Development -- Startups This role is for a Sales Business Development professional focused on the startup ecosystem in the Greater China region. The individual will interface with founders, accelerators, incubators, and investors to drive high-impact initiatives and support startup growth. The role requires a blend of business and technical acumen to engage effectively with startups and evangelize Microsoft's value and innovation. Responsibilities include identifying high-potential startups, building relationships, advising on Microsoft platforms and resources, and working with account management teams. The ideal candidate has experience in structured environments like major technology companies, late-stage startups, investment banking, or consulting, with a strong understanding of market, business, product, and technical challenges. | — | 0 |
| Sr Commercial Executive This role is for a Sr Commercial Executive at Microsoft, responsible for designing and executing commercial strategies, leading negotiations, and driving revenue growth for Microsoft's offerings, including AI products like Copilot. The role requires strong sales, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with an emphasis on ensuring profitable and compliant deals. | — | 0 |
| DATACENTER INV & ASSET MANAGER Lead a team of Inventory & Asset Management technicians responsible for inbound/outbound logistics, inventory audits, and data center regulatory compliance. This role involves managing warranty processes, data bearing device destruction, and ensuring smooth day-to-day operations. The manager will also handle project plans, vendor relationships, and procurement requests, while promoting a positive team culture and ensuring safety compliance. | — | 0 |
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